Putting more guns into schools will increase the chances of the usual things that happen around guns: forgetting to lock them up correctly until a kid finds them and accidentally sets them off, accidental mishandling (dropping) firing off a deadly round,
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spooked adult taking aim at a non-threatening party, unnecessary fatal escalation of otherwise managable situations, etc.
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Mass shootings are much less frequent than these other incidents, so the cost/benefit in arming teaching and administrators is really bad: tons of additional accidental deaths in exchange for speculative and minor reduction in mass shootings.
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TL;DR when you add a bunch of guns somewhere, you get a bunch of accidental deaths. This is not a particularly controversial result. We don't need policies that increase the number of accidental deaths and suicides in schools, and it's very obviously what will happen.
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Thanks for this thread, as someone who had a teacher drive home, got his gun, came back and kill his boss - I shudder to think how it might have gone if he didn't have to go home first and his wife didn't come up to stop him (20+ years ago before this was unfortunately "common")
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My wife is a teacher (in Sweden) and that is a group with a very high stress level and internal conflicts due to scarce resources and constantly getting questioned by parents. So arming them would be more than idiotic.
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The one that really scares me is when inevitably one stressed to the brink teacher turns the gun on the class and then this terrible idea backfires in the worst possible way.
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