Could Armed Teachers Prevent the Next School Shooting?

The Sunday morning news shows are ablaze with the debate for arming teachers to prevent the next school shooting!

As a parent and grandmother, I want my children to be effectively defended.  When a parent drop their children off at school, those same parents look forward to seeing their children safe and happy at the end of the day. Our most precious resources, the future leaders of this nation!

Stricter gun laws would not have prevented "monsters" like Adam Lanza, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, and others from committing mass shootings, and I wonder why students, unlike banks, don't have the protection of armed officials.  

Armed police are currently in many schools, but, the police cannot be everywhere to provide protection and to make our children safe.  A shooter could take out a guard or officer with a visible, holstered weapon, but well trained teachers could slow down the mass killings in our schools, because the killer would not know how many teachers are carrying. Criminals are lazy...once they find out that they will encounter an obstacle in carrying out their crime, they will typically seek an easier pry.

Instead of heralding Ms. Victoria Soto, a 27-year-old Sandy Hook elementary teacher as a hero for dying while trying to hide her pupils; an armed Victoria Soto could have been heralded as a hero who was able to send her children to the safety of their homes after that horrific mass murder attempt.  

Connecticut has a ban on assault weapons and those precious children were not protected.

Criminals work outside of the legal system.  Additional gun bans will not stop them from killing. According to National Rifle Association chief Wayne LaPierre,  "The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun."

Eleven years after the Sept. 11 attacks, a growing number of U.S. airline pilots are armed, prepared to use lethal force to protect the cockpit.  More than  10,000 pilots carry government-issued guns on a voluntary basis, or about 10% of the nation's 100,000 pilots.

These pilots, officially known as federal flight deck officers, keep sidearms handy to provide one more layer of security and a last line of defense against hijackers.

To become flight deck officers, pilots undergo six days of intense training at a federal complex in Artesia, N.M., including weapons handling and close-combat techniques.

"We must speak for the safety of our nation's children," said LaPierre. "We care about our money, so we protect our banks with armed guards. American airports, office buildings, power plants, courthouses, even sports stadiums, are all protected by armed security. We care about our president, so we protect him with armed Secret Service agents. Members of Congress works in offices surrounded by Capitol police officers, yet when it comes to our most beloved innocent and vulnerable members of the American family -- our children -- we as a society leave them every day utterly defenseless. And the monsters and the predators of the world know it and exploit it."

If it is possible to stop the monsters from harming our children, I'd rather try this approach than to do nothing.  Connecticut has a ban on assault weapons.  The ban for assault weapons did not work to protect those 20 innocent children who lost their lives!  It is time out for applying band-aid, political correct solutions to solve problems.

It's time to implement solid solutions. Let's do something that WILL WORK and give our teachers the tools needed to EFFECTIVELY protect our children!  

It's time to armof educators. While this may seem like a bizarre proposition to some, in the tiny Texas town of Harrold, this practice is hardly controversial and it is effective.

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