POLL: Arm Teachers?
MN legislator says yes, Gov. Dayton says no, but a Mpls. school staffer took matters into her own hands and brought a .357 Magnum to school. Should teachers bear arms?
Updated below. Should Minnesota teachers carry guns at school? One staff member at a Minneapolis public school apparently thought so—according to authorities, she brought a loaded .357 Magnum to Seward Montessori Wednesday. MN Rep. Tony Cornish (R-Vernon Center) has a bill that would let educators have firearms in classrooms, according to WCCO-TV. The idea is to prevent massacres like last week's mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, CT that left 20 students and seven adults dead. Cornish told WCCO: “We found out that nothing else works, and I think teachers are the best people to confront this. Even an armed security or an armed cop doesn’t do a lot of good if they get by him or her. Then they’ve got all these classrooms that…
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Cassandra Lundgren
2:43 am on Sunday, March 17, 2013
teachers please just focus on teaching our youth... leave the security..defense and protection to armed guards or trained professionals in using them and protecting .... a classroom is a handful ... and all it does is give the idea inside the one student's brain.. i can get access .. now...plan ... disarm teacher cause she/he isn't paying attention to the subtle cues or at all to the weapon, or … more ›