OK for teachers to carry? MSN poll

[jc_stecker]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26394165

Yes 60%
Yes, but only in dangerous schools 5.6%
No 35%

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Should teachers be allowed to carry guns at school? * 8427 responses

Yes. Any teacher should be allowed to decide if he/she needs to carry a gun.
59%

Yes, but only in the country's most dangerous school districts.
5.7%

No. Guns have no place in schools.
35%

[trinydex]

so this is a good discussion to get people's views on.

my first question is how do you define the most dangerous schools? if you say inner city schools where "kids" get shot all the time... how does it help if teachers are around packin' heat? teachers are gonna waste some little ones too? or are they gonna protect the little ones? because what's the REAL REASON "kids" get shot in these areas?

and if you're going to define most dangerous schools as schools where mass shootings can happen... well that's any school... let's not limit it to the most dangrous in the inner cities... cuz what does that even mean?

i think it'd be a huge pr scandal if a teacher wasted a kid that was lookin' to off him in class...

[Ding126]

Oakland teachers should carry as well...If that isn't dangerous then nothing is.

[PonchoTA]

Almost 2:1 in favor of now:


60% Yes. Any teacher should be allowed to decide if he/she needs to carry a gun.

6.1% Yes, but only in the country's most dangerous school districts.

34% No. Guns have no place in schools.