Thursday, October 16, 2008

UP IN ARMS (Should teachers carry guns?)

I have just read an article in a current events magazine and it surprises me. There have been some cases of shootings in schools and one school in Texas has decided to let 25 employees of the school to carry handguns. This school is frightened that the school might have a shooting happen just because other schools have had it happen in their school. This idea of the school teachers and staff carrying a gun around is crazy. Even if they have been in training to learn how to shoot and handle a gun they can never be too safe. Shooting a gun and actually hitting the target takes lots of practice. If a threat happens to come over the school are they even sure that the teachers will have the strength to pull the trigger and shoot the attacker? I don’t think that a teacher would do that. The person who is a threat might shoot the teacher or students before the teachers get the chance to shoot them. Think about it how old are these students, if they get a hold of the gun they might have an accident. So having teachers carry guns to protect themselves and students is as risky as having someone coming in and shooting everyone.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Wow!
what an excellent summary.
Good job 10/10