More likely is that one of them will leave it in the bathroom after having removed it to take a shit. Happens a decent amount of times with school resource officers.
Or a good teacher who knows they're neither trained nor paid enough to warrant the responsibility will keep it locked up very tightly and in the panic forget the code / lose the key, and then they'll be the scapegoat after everything ends.
Or the principal when the teacher's request for more supplies and fewer students per class is met with some dismissive and insulting excuse. No one will care then, either.
The price of America's Freedom to Murder is exactly what you think: dead people.
we are going to give more under-trained humans human killing devices where juvenile humans exist en masse? awesome. im sure that will go super swell.
the mere existence of a human killing device in your proximity increases your chances of being affected by a human killing device. why are we putting children in more danger?
Also glossed over every time this stupid fucking "more guns" idea is proposed: Are we going to make carrying a gun mandatory for teachers? What's the actual number of teachers who want to be armed while teaching?
The only reason this shit gets support is because it's profitable to the gun lobby. One day the kids that the pro-gun community threw under the bus will run the country and they're going to have no compassion whatsoever for the people who armed their classmates, teachers and random psychopaths who wanted their suicide to be on the news.
Will they give guns to all the teachers, good and bad alike? Then I guess we will find out if the good teachers with guns can stop the bad teachers with guns.
The law is not issuing guns to teachers, it's allowing teachers to concealed carry in a school if they pass some tests and get approval from a few relevant people. The data says it's ineffective at having the intended effect (stopping school shootings) but apparently already 2/3 of states have a similar policy. Anyway, if you want to learn how to stop school shootings I suggest you read Angry White Men by Michael Kimmel.
The law is not issuing guns to teachers, it's allowing teachers to concealed carry in a school if they pass some tests and get approval from a few relevant people
So in other words, the gun laws teachers are subject to may actually be effective for stopping dangerous and negligent people from owning a firearm but we can't apply similar policies to the public because it would inconvenience reactionaries and weapon manufacturers.
Tennessee has been working overtime to lose my respect in the last year. Everything they've done has been terrible.
I used to live in Tennessee. I'm not disparaging Tennesseans. I'm disparaging the people you elected. I know you probably didn't have much say in the matter (gerrymandering).
Why would a teacher who makes shit money want to take one the liability and responsibility of carrying a gun around school? It's either gonna be crazy teachers who volunteer for the job, or it'll be like the resource officers during school shootings who run away at the first sign of trouble
In the late 80s, I lived in Bohemia, NY, in some shitty town on Long Island. I was the only asian student in the town. A teacher named Mrs. Thompson hit me multiple times while calling me racial slurs and while the vice principal watched.
Let's not really solve one problem with a whole new set of problems.
And teachers will have to purchase their own forearm and firearm training. Though knowing Tennessee, they wouldn't require any training whatsoever anyways because that state is full of braindead morons.
You'll note that these are the same people lawmakers accuse of allowing "marxist and critical race theory" in schools. But if you wanna arm the enemy, who am I to disagree?