Do you understand “duty to inform”? It doesn’t mean that you have a duty to inform your attacker that you are armed. It means that you have a duty to inform law enforcement that you have a gun on your person.
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Yes, duty to inform could involve school personnel that are cleared of mental evaluations and qualified training, inform that they have the right to carry. Thank you for your input.
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Just my opinion, but teachers should be allowed to carry. These teachers should be trained to LEO standards, with frequent training in hostage situations, active shooter situations, first aid, and multiple agency drills. The extra training required should be paid for by the school districts in some form.
Unless you reward the teachers and integrate their training with other resources, this would be at best a spotty effort at security.
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All I have to say about this subject is shall NOT be INFRINGED
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How much is partly 30%, 50%, 80%, 99.999%?
Montana state law allows school boards to let any adult staff member carry a gun in schools. But fewer than 1 percent of schools in a state with a high number of gun owners actually do so.
Three districts—Belfry, Custer, and Lima— have staff members who actively carry guns.
At least 30 states allow teachers to carry guns under certain conditions.
New Hampshire is the only state with no restrictions on adults carrying guns on school grounds; only students are prohibited.
Why should they need special training? Most of us didn’t need any training to be able to protect others?
You need training to exercise your second amendment rights.
Regardless of the gun issue, teachers should already have first aid training.
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Yes, seriously. None of us are perfect. We all just try to do the best we can. One can be those things and not be a murderer. You can fool some of the people all of the time and you can fool all of the people some of the time, you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.
If they are murderers we all have the right to protect ourselves from them.
If strict requirements are put on teachers who want to carry, then the left will argue de facto that those same strict standards should apply to everyone wanting to own a firearm. Down the rabbit hole we go.
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TN legislators passed a bill allowing faculty, and staff to carry if a laundry list of requirements were met.
No schools, or districts opted to go that route, depending solely on the police, on site (SRO) School Resource Officer(s), and dispatched cavalry, both lacking in adequate numbers, and short enough response times.
First requirement was that the carrier had to acquire an (EHCP) Enhanced Handgun Carry Permit, in TN’s two tiered system that requires more training than the standard HCP.
Also, since July 1, 2021 TN allows “Constitutional” Permitless Carry.
But, none is allowed on school property (GFZ) unless it’s the EHCP, that had the School Principal’s, or district superintendent’s, written permission along with the jurisdiction’s Chief LEO, or Sheriff’s written permission as well.
Either HCP requires a state police criminal background check with fingerprints be passed.
TN also has a prohibited criteria list for either Permit or Permitless possession of a firearm that is the same, a lawful citizen / resident, 18-years of age, who is generally not a criminal, standard stuff, like not a felon, not a fugitive, not the subject of an order of protection, no stalking, domestic violence, mental issues, Or DUIs. That type of thing.
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But I think we would get some deterrent effect, the little bastards aiming to shoot up a school would have to consider many/all of the teachers might be armed.
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I think that’s a tiny bit mis-stated, for Utah at least. If memory serves in Utah teachers can carry without permission but in some districts they have to inform the administrators they are carrying.
" State law currently allows people to carry firearms on public-school property if they have permission from school administrators or hold a concealed firearm permit, which requires a criminal background check and completion of a firearms familiarity course."
“The new bill does not prevent teachers with a permit who are not involved in the program from carrying a gun on school grounds. Those who participate in the training program will be shielded from civil liability if they use the gun at school while “acting in good faith” and without gross negligence, according to the bill.”
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Agree and disagree.
I agree with the sentiment.
But I’ve also been to the range with people I would trust my kids with. But who can’t handle a firearm worth anything. Some of these people want to carry around kids and don’t know what they don’t know.
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This training should be required for arming teachers. IMHO.
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So, 50%. I’m ok with 50%. 
@Mike164 brought up a good point about deterrence. Schools would cease to be perceived soft targets.
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The deterrent factor was the primary goal, that and not revealing who was granted permission to carry to maintain the tactical advantage of surprise and uncertainty as to who exactly is or is not armed. It might be anyone on staff.
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Maybe schools should post notices outside, such as:
All, some, or perhaps none of our teachers and staff are armed and trained to quell any sort of assault. Question is - do you feel lucky?
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Great point, Frank. As far as deterrence. Additionally, there are people out there that would complain about a teacher carrying but would thank them if they protected their child in an incident. So I agree with you for multiple reasons. if schools allow concealed carry the information of who should not be public knowledge.
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The biggest problem that nobody talks about is that students are going to try to grab those guns on a regular basis. Also the shooter almost always in the school, so they know who to target and at worse could overpower the teacher and get access to their gun when they would not have been able to get one otherwise. The only real way I see it working is the teacher having a safe in the desk for it.
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