Should Teachers Carry Weapons??

[Business_Casual]

Yes they should and without caveats about "qualified" etc. The individual should make the determination, just as our founding fathers intended.

M_P

[baffle Stack]

It would put a smile on my face to see my Physics professor with a gun on his hip

[NickB]

I know of at least one, perhaps two college professors who carry on campus legally under Colorado law, "illegally" under University "law of the Regents". I have no doubt that the University will terminate their employment and press trespassing charges if they ever stop a massacre on campus.

[rayray]

I work at a University and there are times that I feel like bringing My gun on Campus. Yesterday We had a Professor that works in My bldg threatened by a student. I have since applied for My CCW. The only problem, My workplace is gun free. I guess I could always jump out the window.

[rhino]

The State of Utah is on the forefront of this whole thing. Not only is it not illegal to carry on school grounds (with a valid license, of course), the universities can't stop you from carrying there. The Utah supreme court made a ruling on it just last year.

It was awesome.

All other states need to jump on THAT bandwagon. Here in Indiana, the law invalidating our License to Carry Handgun does not apply to colleges (contrary to what some claim), but the almost all of the colleges and universities have their own "no weapons" rules, which could result in expulsion for a student or loss of employment for an employee. If Indiana would cowboy up and do the right thing (like UTAH) and enforce our Constitution, we'd be golden.

[TBone]

of course.

TBone

[Barry in IN]

If they want to, sure, let them.

But if one should ever use their gun, we'll probably all feel pity on them.
Here is why I think that:

When I lived just outside Chicago, one of our gun club's officers was a teacher. This happened to him-
He was in the halls between classes and spotted a student pointing a flare gun at another student. After the student refused to drop the flare gun as ordered, my teacher friend slapped it out of his hand.

At the hearing, when the teacher got to that point in the story he was stopped with: "You HIT him?!?!"
And it all shifted onto him.
Forget the fact that a kid was maybe going to shoot flaming balls into another kid's body, we can't have a teacher slap his hand in the process of disarming him.

I don't recall how far it went, but he had quite a battle on his hands, and at least considered retirement because of it.
This was about 1992, and I doubt it's any better there now.

Whenever the subject of arming teachers comes up, I can't help but think about that episode. It's fine with me if they carry guns, but I'd sure feel sorry for any who ever used it.

[Rock-N-Ruin]

Looks like the rest of the states should follow Utah's example... that's a no brainer...

[9301]

Policemen, teachers, or whomever deserve no more right to protect themselves then you or me. If I can't legally carry a weapon to defend myself and the people I care about than neither should they.

I don't know about where you live, but here you have the right to defend yourself and those you care about, the problem is you don't have the right to defend anyone you don't know or care about, I do. Personally I want you to defend yourself; however, as long as 99% of the sheep in this country call 911 as soon as they are afraid something bad is going to happen to them and I have to go defend them, than I do have the right to carry a gun while I take care of their responsibility to defend themselves.

I think everyone has the God given right to defend themselves and without a bunch of rules to go with that right. Nebraska finally passed a law allowing concealed weapons, but there are so many places that are restricted or have posted signs restricting guns that its almost not worth carrying one.

I doubt arming teachers is going to stop anyone determined to kill a bunch of people on their way to their own death, especially since my vision of teachers doesn't exactly conjure up thoughts of the type of people capable of violence, but you never know.........look at the heroic efforts of a couple of the teachers at Virginia Tech. If they'd had a gun there's a good chance that the shooter would have been stopped earlier.

[RD62]

There is a bill in the state legislature right now that would allow CCW holders to carry in schools. My wife is a teacher and has said that if it passes she would like to get her CCW.

An article on the local news stations web site said that college police chiefs spoke against the bill, saying that it would make I.D.ing the shooter more difficult.

Uhhh... The CWP holder woud be the one NOT randomly shooting innocent people.


-RD62