We don't even compensate our teachers properly for the jobs they ALREADY do. What makes you think we're going to pay to train them for THIS, not to mention pay them appropriately for their new skills???
Just a tweak to the post, but you hit them as hard as you can and DON'T STOP hitting them until you see gray.
Or grey, if you're English.
This is exactly why there are so many violence problems in the US. Dude in the post just proposed a way to deal with an attacker quickly, efficiently and without killing them (emphasis on the last point). But you suggest giving an actual weapon to every teacher instead? This is for example why there's so much cop violence, because for some reason you guys are taught to escalate conflicts instead of de-escalating them. You shouldn't use lethal weapons and aggressive physical force to deal with a (potential) threat! Not because US cops or teachers are unreliable (in fact most people react badly when in such a stressful situation) but because having a lethal weapon as the only method of self-defence at hand just won't prevent casualties, it will create more. So maybe giving teachers pepper sprays or something like that would work, but not real weapons.
Also matthewg makes a good point about training the teachers and so on.
I agree, it's incredibly close minded to arm teachers with guns.
But it makes more sense for them to have something like an isopropyl alcohol bottle or pepper spray so that they can stun the enemy.
Fire extinguishers are better in case
A) there's a fire
B) there's a threat needing to be extinguished
It'd be more reliable and serve as a more effective deterrent.
Just a tweak to the post, but you hit them as hard as you can and DON'T STOP hitting them until you see gray.
Or grey, if you're English.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfK9UPEQavo
Also matthewg makes a good point about training the teachers and so on.
But it makes more sense for them to have something like an isopropyl alcohol bottle or pepper spray so that they can stun the enemy.
Fire extinguishers are better in case
A) there's a fire
B) there's a threat needing to be extinguished