# Arming teachers **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [February 16, 2018, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arming-teachers/808927 "2018-02-16T14:48:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 374
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2018, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arming-teachers/808927/374 "2018-02-23T19:41:34Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > If you arm 20% of the country’s 3.5 million teachers, that’s 700,000 armed teachers and 700,000 guns inside the school. Even if 99% of the teachers can carry a gun all day for 180 school days without incident ( And I think I’m being generous in my assessment of the weapons handling capabilities of teachers), that’s still going to be 70 incidents a year. And you know what’ll happen? A white teacher is going to panic during some confrontation and shoot an unarmed black kid, and the jury’s going to acquit based on some vague assurance by the teacher that, sure, the kid didn’t have a gun as it turns out but it seemed threatening at the time, and all hell will quite understandably break loose. The absolute idiocy of the idea of arming teachers is so colossal that were it not for the fact I saw this coming after the NRA’s response to Sandy Hook, I wouldn’t believe the things I’m seeing. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arming-teachers/808927)._