[ryankey721]

I don't know about this, why would the number of incidents go up if teachers have weapons? Especially if they are trained to handle situations.

Another post on HN talks about a school district in Texas allowing teachers to carry firearms, but it takes a lot of training in both using the gun and hostile situations. This is a recent thing, so it's still undecided if it will help, but I feel like it helps to have the teachers trained.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,404721,00.html

[skyhook_mockups]

The fact that through an unfortunate twist of history you even need to consider arming your teachers is simply incredible. There are a lot of great things about the US, but sadly the gun ownership fiasco is not one of them.