CMV: Letting teachers carry guns in schools will solve absolutely nothing

I keep seeing stuff online about how arming teachers in schools is gonna somehow do something to limit the amount of school shootings that happen, and I completely disagree. First of all the people who say that are focusing on the wrong part of the problem, but I’ll explain why I don’t think teachers having guns would deter anyone who actually wants to cause harm.

First, most schools already have armed resource officers and that hasn’t done anything to stop school shootings. The resource officer at Parkland High School had a gun and stood outside for the entire massacre, never once did he attempt to do anything to stop the shooting. The shooting at that Nashville high school the other day there was a resource officer present who once again did nothing to stop the shooting. The school resource officer at the school in Madison, Wisconsin where the shooting happened in December did nothing. My point is if the officers who are trained for stuff like this aren’t going to step in and do anything, why would a teacher?? I mean shit there were almost 400 police officers at Uvalde who stood around doing absolutely nothing while children were slaughtered. If 400 police can’t get it done, I don’t think the English teacher can get it done.

Second, teachers aren’t paid enough for that. Teachers are already extremely underpaid and on top of teaching, we’re gonna expect them to play Superman for a class full of kids? Not only would that put the teacher in a super uncomfy position but the pay wouldn’t even be worth all of that.

There could also be a scenario where a teacher completely loses their temper with a student and resorts to using their gun. Whether it be that teacher has anger issues or just ended up acting on impulse, who would want to take that risk. Also if one of the students knows the teacher has a gun they could try and take it from them and hurt someone with it.

If the teachers are armed, all that’s gonna do is make the shooter go after them first to eliminate any threat to themselves.

Plus, arming teachers and thinking that’s gonna do the trick is implying shooters are still gonna be going into these schools trying to cause harm. We need to focus on the real issue which is why are these people doing stuff like this in the first place.