More Teachers Allowed to Carry Concealed Weapons in School

We already wrote about teachers in Texas signing up in droves for concealed handgun classes following the Newtown shooting; we also wrote about Utah teachers taking classes in weapons safety and active shooter defeat for the same reason.

This past week, another school district in Texas, Christoval ISD, passed a measure to allow teachers carry their concealed handguns on school property given that they complete concealed handgun license training, pass their background checks and receive their licenses, complete an advanced training program, and then are approved by the school board.

The school board, to its credit, used reason in weighing the pros and cons of arming its teachers, rather than submit to emotional fallacies. While studying the average police response time of previous school shootings, they found that the police response time of 12 to 15 minutes to their rural location was about the same as the average amount of time historical school shootings lasted. With that information, school board members reasoned that the only way to stop a shooting sooner was to forego the notion that police would stop it before dozens of people could be hurt and decided to give teachers the option of arming themselves. Not only can an armed teacher stop a massacre in his or her own classroom, the idea that teachers of a particular school are armed can deter someone who is seeking an easy target from attacking that location to begin with.

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