Should teachers carry guns?

Arms on a school campus can halt school shootings and mitigate the damage

Question: Should teachers carry guns?
Position‹2 of 2: Yes, teachers should carry guns.
Argument‹3 of 3: Arms on a school campus can halt school shootings and mitigate the damage

During lockdown situations, classes are often trapped and are essentially sitting ducks. Having a firearm allows the class to have a chance to get out of the situation if a shooter decides to target the class. School shooters are also more likely to back down if there are firearms present.

The argument

The presence of concealed carry laws in respective states has been effective in reducing crime rates and is indicative that aggregate crime reduction in all states throughout the US could be achieved through the adoption of concealed carry laws. There is also already an established efficacy in School Resource Officer presence, an armed first responder with the purpose of decreasing response time to threats. School staff who choose to carry, and are fully trained to do so, are well-equipped to reduce this response time even further, decreasing the probability of increased casualties in the event of a shootout while also deterring criminal activity on school campuses in the first place.

Premises

[P1]Concealed carry laws have been shown to reduce crime rates in states that adopt them. [P2] Armed first responders on campus, such as School Resource Officers, reduce response time to threats and deter violence. [P3] Trained armed teachers would further shorten response time and act as an additional deterrent to school shootings. [C] Therefore, teachers should be permitted to carry guns in order to halt school shootings and mitigate their damage.

Counter-arguments

Teachers do not receive the same training as School Resource Officers. They also do not sign up for the same liability/job description. Therefore, teachers should not be viewed as equivalent to School Resource Officers.

Rejecting the premises

[Rejecting P1] The concealed-carry literature is contested rather than settled, and it concerns adults carrying in public places. It says nothing about arming staff inside schools, which is the practice actually at issue. [Rejecting P2] School Resource Officers are sworn full-time officers, selected, trained, supervised and insured for that role. Whatever record the arrangement has belongs to it and does not transfer to staff whose job, training and liability are teaching. [Rejecting P3] Shortening response time assumes the armed teacher is present, armed, and able to act under fire, and the premise prices in none of the countervailing risks: a weapon stored where children are, the chance of an armed civilian being misidentified by arriving officers, and the sustained firearms training teachers neither receive nor agreed to.