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I have asked advocates of this several times exactly how it can be ensured that a student would never be able to get access to a teacher's gun. The best I get are various versions of "well they just won't."
I also like to ask if they ever had a teacher with a really bad temper who might have been tempted to use a gun in a moment of blind rage if they had one available.
Because I sure did.
It's not hard to find instances of SROs misplacing their firearms. Now we'll add more guns with less training. Surely nothing will go wrong.
Just a month or so ago, the one in my daughter's former middle school left his on the bathroom sink and a kid found it. Thankfully, the kid did the responsible thing and reported it to the office. One of the many reasons I'm glad we got her out of that hellhole.
Oddly I had a music teacher like that.
Huh. Me too. On more than one occasion he threw his baton at someone for talking during class.
Dude is that just a music teacher thing? He did it to me twice? And I just acted like that was ok...
My middle school band teacher was a bitter alcoholic. He was one of the top jazz trombonists in the country, but ended up teaching middle school band due to the alcoholism. I don't know if he would ever have used a gun, but I don't particularly want drunk teachers having access to them. And he was not the only teacher I had who showed up to school drunk. My drama teacher only got fired for it because she got near-blackout drunk and stumbled past the office.
That's just crazy. I could imagine having a drunk teacher.