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Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby
In Israel, all teachers have had extensive gun training in their minimum 2 years (for women) or 3 years (for men) of military training.
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This. I do think that if the solution is to arm someone in the school, it would need to be someone with extensive training. I am not anti-gun, and I do not think more gun control is the answer to preventing mass shootings. However, I don't know how much it would help to arm teachers. If someone comes into a teacher's classroom with a gun, the teacher would have to be able to react quickly enough to grab his/her gun and pull the trigger, before possibly getting shot themselves. Not only would they have to react quickly, they would also have to hit their target - not an easy feat when children are probably running around, the shooter is firing, and there is just complete chaos. Someone who carries, but has very little experience, may not be able to react effectively in this situation.
Like I said, I am not anti-gun. I don't think gun control laws can prevent shootings like this. But, I'm not sure that arming teachers is the answer. It's a much more complicated theory than it may seem.