12-17-2012, 03:12 AM
There are holsters and leashes designed to help prevent someone from having their gun taken away. And I would personally advocate trained, senior faculty. Not the whole lot of them. Of course one of them could snap. A police officer could snap in a crowded mall.
It all depends on the situation. A situation like the Sandy Hook shooting it obviously would help. Armed faculty would be better able to combat the threat. You can't possibly argue that, with a gun, they might be worse off against a madman with an assault rifle because they might get disarmed.
However, in a emotional exchange with, say, a larger student, it does open the possibility for a crime of passion. So if it were to happen there would have to be very good training and very good procedures to prevent situations like that from occuring (e.g. no teaching while armed, no tutoring while armed, etc.)
(12-17-2012, 02:14 AM)arnie Wrote: Or what about the possibility of that faculty member being disarmed? I have personally several years of martial arts under my belt (pun intended) and disarming somebody with a firearm is really as easy as 1-2-3. Just because you have a gun doesn't mean you are superior, often quite contrary since it makes you "locked in".
It all depends on the situation. A situation like the Sandy Hook shooting it obviously would help. Armed faculty would be better able to combat the threat. You can't possibly argue that, with a gun, they might be worse off against a madman with an assault rifle because they might get disarmed.
However, in a emotional exchange with, say, a larger student, it does open the possibility for a crime of passion. So if it were to happen there would have to be very good training and very good procedures to prevent situations like that from occuring (e.g. no teaching while armed, no tutoring while armed, etc.)