Over at Bearing Arms Tom Knighton has a piece entitled Tennessee Teacher Says Her Profession Can't Be Trusted With Guns. Wow! I wonder if this (student) teacher, who appears to be rather new to the profession has done some sort polling of professional teachers to find out? One would think that taking a representative sample of teachers and polling them would be the least one could do if one claims to speak for others. But, well, just read the article.
On Wednesday, I addressed a teacher in Tennessee who said that she didn't want to carry a firearm while performing her job. My take was that if she didn't want to, she shouldn't. It's a pretty simple concept. It's something each person should decide for themselves and they should be able to decide for themselves.
That is my take too. Teachers that want to carry, and are qualified to do so, should be allowed to. But nobody should be forced to. It is a big responsibility. You must keep it concealed at all times, train with your weapon regularly, and have thought ahead where you might store it if it is not on your person 100% of the time. Your primary duty is always to teach the children, and only secondarily to protect them with deadly force if necessary.
But an op-ed out of Tennessee written by a student teacher appears to argue that her profession just can't be trusted with guns. Let's start with the headline that reads: "Teachers like me are trained to educate kids. Arming us will make everyone less safe."
You can read Knighton's total article. Needless to say, she offers no unbiased research, and her sources are things like Students Demand Action, a subsidiary of Moms Demand Action, funded by Bloomberg. But you can decide for yourselves. Knighton also makes the point, and I agree, if teachers can not be trusted with guns, why should we trust them with our children? Maybe we shouldn't?
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