Teachers and school staff should have guns

I'm looking forward to a great debate! Let me start by saying this: any reasonable person will agree that school shootings are abhorring and sickening events that our young people have experienced. There is not debate over whether something should be done about it; rather, the debate has always been over what ways we go about preventing mass shootings. Generally, liberals will make arguments ranging from gun bans to gun control; conservatives emphasize the second amendment rights bestowed by the constitution and make the argument that we need less guns in the hands of the wrong people and more guns in the hands of the good people. These are vast generalizations of the arguments presented by the left and right, but for the sake of time they present a clear and general idea of the proposed solutions by each side. One of the solutions that comes up when speaking about preventing mass shootings, and specifically school shootings, is that we should allow teachers/staff to carry guns. The idea is that in the case of a school shooting, there are teachers and staff that are also armed and prepared to fight back in defense of themselves and their students. In this debate I will be arguing that arming teachers/staff is better than not allowing them to carry guns in school. This is my contention, and it is slightly different from the debate title but I believe it is acceptable and preferred due to detail. When you think about the concept as to why someone would make the argument that teachers should be allowed to conceal carry, it simply makes logical sense that it could very well be a good thing. The reasoning is clear: if an intruder enters the school with weapons and the intent to harm and kill, if there are responsible teachers that also have guns, they can as a result neutralize the threat that is a school shooter. I personally am not a "shoot first" person, and in many cases I think situations should be resolved in a smooth and diplomatic way as possible-- with the exception of imminent danger as such in a school shooting. I don't believe there is anything about that simple logic that is flawed, and I believe that if we were to allow teachers/staff to conceal carry, it would act as a deterrent against school shootings overall. It seems after all that most mass shootings happen in "gun-free" zones, schools being one of them. Allow me to give a few examples of instances where a gun carrying citizen actually stopped a bigger tragedy from occurring. In Chicago, 2015, there was a man who started to fire his gun at a crowd of people, when a carrying Uber driver noticed, got out of his car and shot the original shooter and neutralized the threat. [1]Colorado, late 2007, a man heads to a church armed with over 1,000 rounds of ammunition [2] prepared to be the perpetrator of yet another mass shooting, killing two young ladies in the parking lot and killing two people in the church. Thanks to a carrying attendee and volunteer security guard (a citizen still, mind you) the perpetrator was shot several times before killing himself, thus preventing any more fatalities [3]Mississippi, 1997, a young man first stabs his mother to death before heading to his school and opening fire with a rifle, injuring 7 and killing 2 young ladies. One of the assistant principals had gone to his car to retrieve his gun and was able to stop the young man from killing more. [4] He was evidently on his way to the middle school nearby to continue killing even more kids. [5]For the sake of not going over my character limit I will just stop with those, but the examples continue and range over different times and circumstances. The reality is that the logic is straightforward and proven in time that citizens who carry and are in situations where a malicious person is trying to hurt or kill others, the citizen who carries is generally able to end the threat. Unfortunately there are not many specific circumstances of teachers pulling out a Glock from their back belt and stopping a mentally deranged student from killing their classmates because schools have been a place where quite frankly, teachers don't have that capability. I've presented these proofs mostly outside of school settings (with the exception of the last one) to show that when it works in other occasions, it would certainly prove to work should we allow teachers/staff to conceal carry for the protection of their students. [1] . http://www.chicagotribune.com...[2] . https://www.denverpost.com...[3] . https://www.nytimes.com...[4] . http://content.time.com...[5] . https://books.google.com...