Argumentative Essay: Should Guns Be Armed In Schools?

Schools are supposed to be a safe learning environment, not a place where student can’t focus out of fear, arming staff will not make kids safer. School safety is a pressing issue that has not been dealt with. The number of school shooting is going up and up. We need better security in our schools but not by putting guns in schools.

First off, just because someone is of school staff/teacher doesn’t make them trustworthy, no student would feel safe stuck in rooms with armed adults for 7 hours a day, 5 days a week. If Teachers/Staff were armed in schools they could threaten students because they carry around a gun. Every so often, usually a few a year, there are reports of sexual assault or inappropriate behavior from a staff member or teacher. Even in the school I write this from (John T. Baker Middle School) there has been an incident; on 2014 October 6th, a young girl named Jasmine of 12 years old in only 6th grade was walking down the hallways of this

“In 2014, a Utah teacher who was carrying a concealed firearm accidentally dropped her weapon in an elementary school bathroom and it fired. The teacher was injured when the bullet struck a toilet and caused it to explode.” Guns are already dangerous enough even in the hands of someone without evil intentions. Having children surrounded by armed adults for 7 hours 5 days a week will increase the chance of accidents and injuries, and when and if it ever came time for the need of the gun, the teachers will likely not even be ready or prepared to use it at all. Teachers are teachers because they want to teach and help children learn, the majority does not have the mindset to shoot or kill another human being, even if it is out of self-defence and in the defence of kids, even a teacher herself addressed it "I don't have any instincts in me to be an officer of the law. My instincts are to be a