[drugstorecowboy]

Yes, which completely ignores the difference between a person who has had this situation forced on them (A teacher or school administrator) and someone who has to choose to enter it.

I think it might be quite a bit easier to confront a shooter when its obvious that doing nothing will result in your death. In this situation in particular I can't imagine how armed teachers would have made it any worse, but can certainly imagine it making it better.

[pkulak]

I can absolutely imagine how a firefight between a bunch of people with no training makes things worse.

I can also imagine dozens of ways arming teachers makes things worse for that 10 9s of time where there's not an active school shooter.

[bitwize]

Or, we could mitigate the active shooter problem by making guns less easily available. Bring back the assault weapons ban and strict licensure for all other firearms and ammunition.

[Apocryphon]

What if an armed teacher becomes the active shooter?

[drugstorecowboy]

And what exactly would stop that from happening now? Do you really believe the only thing stopping a teacher from a rampage is the fact that its illegal for them to have a gun on campus?

[Apocryphon]

Well, the increased availability of guns and the further normalization of guns everywhere would probably increase the chances over the status quo.

[MandieD]

Or more likely: an angry teenage boy manages to get the gun off an armed teacher?

[lamp987]

armed students