I'm a teacher who owns guns, but I DON'T want to be armed on the job.

[moriah]

9. I was considering FB. I like what you said that much.

If you don't mind being publicly associated with this personal belief, though, this post would be a great start for an article/post yourself, if you really wanted to make the point.

The gun nuts need to hear from people who they are assured aren't just speaking from zero knowledge of firearms. They seem to automatically think everyone who is against firearms being the solution to everything has never fired one. The perspective of a teacher who shoots would be helpful.

Plus, I remember having a teacher who was also in the National Guard who was called up during the first Desert Storm. I know there's hardly a better person than that insofar as qualification to be an armed teacher. But I really do believe you are correct that it would not encourage safety, and even if I probably would have trusted him just as much because he was a great teacher, it would certainly change the dynamic of teaching to put that burden on them instead of on resource officers. Teachers do enough.

And *they*, the resource officers, need to have the specialty safety holsters, etc. Because again you don't want kids to escalate a fight by stealing the gun.