Louisiana Senate Wants to Arm Teachers.

[Magdump]

Something my daughter, who is a teacher brought up. Will the teachers keep them in a lock box or on their person? I don’t think most teachers will want to wear them around all day interacting with kids. What about high school teachers who have to break up fights, now you are introducing a firearm into the situation. I think the smarter thing is to harden schools and require 1 officer per 100 students.


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Agreed. I keep hearing the arguments about how we protect everything under the sun with guns or men with guns. Banks, celebrities, politicians, etc, but our most precious resource we leave wide open and defenseless.
Gun free zones are the most naive and stupid decision I can think of. Gutting a constitutional carry bill to try and arm teachers ranks right up there.

 

[dantheman]

I've never been able to warm up to the idea of arming teachers . Too many things can go wrong with that scenario .

 

[Magdump]

I've never been able to warm up to the idea of arming teachers . Too many things can go wrong with that scenario .

Considering some of the teachers making the news nowadays I can’t say I blame you…

 

[Cajun Camper]

Considering what is already going on in classrooms do you really wants teachers armed?

 

[folivier]

So will the armed teachers protect the kids against an aggressor? Or to protect themselves against an aggressive student?

 

[twinin]

Yep


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I don't think locking from the outside would be the problem. They are already supposed to be locked

 

[twinin]

Why Can't schools just have full time armed security gaurds who patrol the school checking doors, checking camera, and looking for anything odd.

It is a good idea but would be hard to staff. Many schools do not even fill positions with all certified teachers. This is probably the best most pragmatic solution though

 

[twinin]

Something my daughter, who is a teacher brought up. Will the teachers keep them in a lock box or on their person? I don’t think most teachers will want to wear them around all day interacting with kids. What about high school teachers who have to break up fights, now you are introducing a firearm into the situation. I think the smarter thing is to harden schools and require 1 officer per 100 students.


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In education as well, and I agree with her for the same reasons. I have had the same thoughts.

The officer could work with even a 300-500 students per officer, but the staffing is the problem. There are not enough officers that are certified/want to be certified as SROs (School Resource Officer), and some places even if enough were certified, there are not enough officers to cover it and the road shift.

The previous Terrebonne Sheriff proposed a tax millage increase with some controversy years ago to put an SRO in every school-including elementary and private schools-it did not come close to passing. Most places only have 1 for each Jr. High/Middle and High school

 

[Bigchillin83]

if only they all would end like this

 

[Xeon64]

if only they all would end like this

This will be one cop who does not get the third degree. This needs to happen more. Mess with Schools and our kids, DIE!

 

[Bigchillin83]

This will be one cop who does not get the third degree. This needs to happen more. Mess with Schools and our kids, DIE!

correct!!! needs to be like that public broadcasting station that interrupts all tv and radio....

"Urgent news, dummy with a gun went to a elementary school, he has been killed dead, dead, dead... No further updates now return to your local broadcast..."

start putting that out there and see how many copy cats we get

 

[hdfinder47]

Keep in mind, we are not suggesting forcing all teachers to be armed. Only properly motivated teachers would be given the opportunity to attend advanced training to qualify to do so. Seems to work out in Israel.

 

[cyclone1970]

Keep in mind, we are not suggesting forcing all teachers to be armed. Only properly motivated teachers would be given the opportunity to attend advanced training to qualify to do so. Seems to work out in Israel.

That's it in three sentences.

 

[dantheman]

I can tell you for a fact , there will be parent's that will demand to know which teachers are armed . And there will be parent's that absolutely refuse to have their child in a classroom where a firearm is present . And before anybody says it , telling them to send their kid to a different school if they don't like it will NOT be a valid answer to their objections .
Will these teachers be fully covered by millions of dollars of liability insurance ? Can the school systems afford to pay for this because the teachers damn sure can't . Like I said earlier , too many things can go wrong with this scenario , and it will only take one incident to get it all shut down anyway .
Schools are still soft targets . The school in Texas had an unsecured door in spite of the rules . I went to pick up my granddaughter from school one day . You are supposed to be buzzed in by the front desk . When I got there the doors were blocked open for a delivery and nobody was watching them . A dear friend of mine is a schoolteacher . She admitted to me that she doesn't lock her classroom .
All of these things are easy fixes and cost nothing .

 

[JBP55]

The School Board in each Parish should pay for School Resource Officers who are LEO at the rate of 1 SRO per 100 students and require each SRO to quality on the La. P O S T Firearms and Defensive Tactics Course every 6 months as minimum training.

 

[DBMJR1]

My wife is a retired teacher. I've a bit of insight.

First of all, . . . , some teachers and administrators have been carrying a firearm to school for decades, and nobody knows.

You'd rather get between a lioness and her cubs than mess with some teacher's students. Motivation isn't an issue with a majority of teachers.

Nobody is forcing teachers to carry.

Nobody should know which teachers are carrying, except the administration.

Some campus' are huge. It might take a SRO fifteen minutes to waddle to the back of campus from the teacher's lounge, and he'll be out of breath when he gets there.

 

[MOTOR51]

The School Board in each Parish should pay for School Resource Officers who are LEO at the rate of 1 SRO per 100 students and require each SRO to quality on the La. P O S T Firearms and Defensive Tactics Course every 6 months as minimum training.

I agree. I will add that there are only a few teachers that I know who I would feel comfortable carrying around my family. One of them is on this site and makes dang good holsters


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[JBP55]

I agree. I will add that there are only a few teachers that I know who I would feel comfortable carrying around my family. One of them is on this site and makes dang good holsters


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I agree.

 

[twinin]

I still think it's cheaper and better to add SRO's/security than arming teachers. The liability insurance would be crazy expensive or only cover a fraction of coverage you would need or possibly both.

Local schools boards could find the money to pay for them, but I still don't think there would be enough people to staff it. Local chiefs and sheriffs would not be able to cover shifts.

NOPD can't cover the road and respond to calls as it is.

 

[Abby Normal]

How did the perp miss the name of the town this school is in? Gadsden! He learned the hard way, Don’t Tread On Me.