Side note: many state's teacher's unions are working on legislation to have staff be allowed to carry firearms in school. Some have actually gotten pretty far, albeit quietly. It isn't exactly something they want to advertise, kwim?Similarly if you are staff you may be subject to personnel action (like being fired).
Here in Colorado, I'd advise shooting armed and vicious "kids:" Harris, Klebold, Pierson...Side note: many state's teacher's unions are working on legislation to have staff be allowed to carry firearms in school. Some have actually gotten pretty far, albeit quietly. It isn't exactly something they want to advertise, kwim?
As a high school teacher (and we have a minimum of two active-shooter workshops per year), I cannot imagine shooting a child. Maybe if another Adam Lanza came along, but not a kid. And I'm from NH, where TONS of people wear guns right out in the open (Live Free or Die and all that).
Times have indeed changed. In my own rural area, everyone who owned a pickup truck had a gun rack in the back window. They were as ubiquitous as left turn signals (though I admit a few vehicles were apparently missing those as well!) Everywhere we went as I grew up there was a .22 Marlin lever action and a 12ga Mossberg pump hanging behind my head, even in the school parking lot. I carried a pocket knife to school every day for at least 10 years. We never would have even considered using those tools inappropriately.I understand, first of all, that all states are handling their open-carry/concealed-carry laws differently.
In Michigan, there was a teacher who openly carried a military-style weapon into a high school and, upon a report to the police by a concerned parent who had just dropped her child off at the school, the school was placed on an immediate lockdown and a SWAT team was dispatched. The teacher was surprised by the arrival of SWAT because he has been a military history teacher at the school for years and he had brought without a problem the same gun to school every year as a teaching tool for his class.
It is a different time. Weapons on school campuses, whether legally allowed or not, can generate a panic.
Thanks for your replies, and i apologize for not mentioning this upfront but I am 22 years old. I volunteer a lot in the K-12 field and I wanted to double check that I could concealed carry legally without any issues.Just a quick note, because the poster doesn't state her age: regardless of your carry permit, if you are a student at that school and you make the poor choice to bring a firearm, you can be expelled.
Please, there was an incident in San Diego county a few months ago where a professor was flashing around his folded up umbrella outdoors, someone from a distance mistook it for a rifle, and the college ended up on lockdown. Overkill people?It is a different time. Weapons on school campuses, whether legally allowed or not, can generate a panic.
Overkill? Possibly.Please, there was an incident in San Diego county a few months ago where a professor was flashing around his folded up umbrella outdoors, someone from a distance mistook it for a rifle, and the college ended up on lockdown. Overkill people?
I still think that its a really bad idea.Thanks for your replies, and i apologize for not mentioning this upfront but I am 22 years old. I volunteer a lot in the K-12 field and I wanted to double check that I could concealed carry legally without any issues.
The guy was stopped on the sidewalk with a SWAT team training semi auto weapons on him. IT WAS A FREAKING UMBRELLA (on a rainy day), and no his name was NOT Oswald Cobblepot.Overkill? Possibly.
However I know that in some cases reports that could have or should have been made were not made and, had they been, lives potentially could have been saved.
In other words, some reports might seem absurd only in retrospect.