You don't want the trained teachers carrying openly. You need for them to have the element of surprise against any would be attacker. For a would be attacker that might know the school (or whatever the target may be), you would not want him or her to know who is carrying and to look for. Eventhough as crazy as these people that carry out these acts are, in my mind they have one goal and are not real organized. They set out to accomplish what they may think is right and that is it. So having that element of surprise of having concealed carrying faculty is much better than open carry or even a uniformed security or resource officer.
I don’t agree. I believe the deterrent of visible weapon is much more important than the “surprise”. Prevention rather than reaction.
30 plus years ago in a small town in northern Wisconsin my buddies and I were allowed carry our 22’s & shotguns into the school and store them in our lockers (cased an unloaded of course) so we could hit the neighboring woods after school and chase rabbits, squirrels, and grouse. Some of them brought them on the school bus and refinished their stocks in shop class. There was never an incident, never a shot fired. . .ever! We were raised in an era where we learned how to safely handle guns at a young age and we learned through experience all too well the damage these tools could do.
You can’t carry a nail clipper into a school these days. What has changed since then? I don’t have the answer, but I can say for certain we did respect our teachers, parents and all other adults. For every pound of respect there’s an ounce of fear. My Father never laid a hand on me, he didn’t have to. . .he was a man, I was a boy and I knew it. Too many Dads want to be their kids’ buddies these days which is a big difference than being their Fathers. So I say Man Up and get your kids out in the woods because as the bumper sticker said, “Little boys that hunt fish and camp don’t grow up to rob old ladies”.
Great posts everyone and hey we’re all not going to agree on a solution(s) guns/no guns, spanking/no spanking etc. but it’s encouraging to see we’re not jaded to the violence and have the need to speak up if for no other reason to try make sense out of something the is incomprehensible and to heal our own sorrows cause by this horrible act.
