Lets Arm The Teachers!

Why are the miscreants shooting up our schools? The answer is simple, because that is an easy place for them to inflict their carnage. It's really as simple as that. The solution is equally simple and straight forward, we need to arm our school personnel. There are a lot of misconceptions to this simple and straight forward solution to the problem. First, this is a freedom of choice issue. If the liberals on the East and West coasts want to concentrate on the gun issue that is their choice, let the slaughter of the innocents in their schools continue. For the rest of us, we need to concentrate on the root cause of the problem which results from the fact that our political leaders, both right and left, refuse to address the problem on the mentally ill which roam our streets with abandon. The bottom line is that we need to keep these Wackos away from our children. We accomplish this by shooting first and asking questions later. In this respect, there is a lot of unnecessary confusion with respect to who should be armed. The more the better, but realistically, only a small percentage of our school personnel need to be armed to greatly increase the safety of the school environment. Who should be included in this group? First, no one should be forced to participate in this protection program, but those that do should be paid a reasonable stipend, in addition to their salary, if they are willing to step up and provide protection for our children. OF course, those that volunteer for the gun patrol will have to be trained to carry and use a firearm. Fortunately, there are many people well trained in firearms already on our campuses, including retired military officers, retired policemen and a whole host of sportsmen who know how to use a gun. I expect, many, if not most of these people, would volunteer to carry a gun, or better yet a concealed weapon, if it would increase the safety of our schools, especially if they were paid a little extra to do so. I do not believe, for a second, that the crazies roaming the streets of our cities would pick a school yard to take out their frustrations on society if they knew that they were more likely than not to be shot the second they reached for a gun. Maybe some of them would, but certainly they would be put out of their misery before they killed 15 or twenty innocent children, as is now so often the case. As with many of our societal problems, the answer to these mass school shootings is simple, arm the teachers and school personnel before a crazy decides to shoot up another school!