https://www.edweek.org/leadership/another-state-could-let-teachers-carry-guns-what-we-know-about-the-strategy/2024/04
In a fall 2022 RAND Corp. survey, 20 percent of teachers said they thought their schools would be safer if educators carried guns in school, and 26 percent said it would make their schools neither

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/04/19/states-allow-teachers-guns-school-classrooms/73383413007/
Tennessee and Iowa weigh joining them. More than half of all states have some type of law allowing teachers and other school employees to carry guns on campus. Tennessee is joining a growing

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/23/us/tennessee-teachers-gun-carry-bill/index.html
Gun reform activists protest SB 1325, which would authorize teachers, principals, and school personnel to carry a concealed handgun on school grounds, in Nashville, Tennessee, on April 23, 2024.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/two-states-aim-arm-teachers-opposition-educators-experts-rcna31731
A 2019 national survey of 2,926 teachers, including more than 450 gun owners, conducted in the aftermath of the Parkland shooting found that more than 95 percent of educators did not believe

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/31/us/teachers-guns-school-safety/index.html
CNN —. More than half the country's teachers believe arming themselves would make students less safe, while 1 in 5 say they would be interested in carrying a gun to school, according to a new

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/31/us/teachers-guns-schools.html
Trained, Armed and Ready. To Teach Kindergarten. More school employees are carrying guns to defend against school shootings. In Ohio, a contentious new law requires no more than 24 hours of training.

https://www.edweek.org/leadership/should-teachers-carry-guns-the-debate-explained/2018/08
A 2015 CBS News/New York Times poll found that 57 percent of all respondents opposed allowing teachers and staff to carry guns in schools, though the idea was more popular among Republicans. Among

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/07/1249807984/tennessee-legislature-votes-guns-teachers-education
Arming teachers. Under the new law, a local principal, education commissioner and sheriff must approve before a teacher can carry a firearm in school. Teachers would have to go through 40 hours of

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/28/opinion/america-teachers-guns.html
It took law enforcement less than five minutes to arrive, but in that time, two people were killed — a 10th grader and a 61-year-old physical-education teacher. As America's epidemic of gun

https://www.edweek.org/leadership/what-teachers-think-about-carrying-guns-at-school-in-charts/2023/06
Based on the survey results, RAND estimated that about 550,000 of the nation's roughly 3 million public school teachers would be personally interested in being armed at school. The majority of

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/27/opinion/teachers-classroom-concealed-carry-training.html
A target at a three-day gun and active shooter training session attended by teachers in Rittman, Ohio. Ohio lawmakers passed a bill that will make it easier for teachers to carry a gun at school

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bill-arm-teachers-tennessee-senate-covenant-school-shooting/
In the nearly 15 minutes it took to remove the audience and resume the debate, they continued chanting, "Vote them out;" "No more silence, end gun violence;" and "Kill the bill, not the kids."

https://msmagazine.com/2024/06/25/teachers-carry-guns/
There's just no research showing that arming teachers and increasing the number of guns in our schools is a way to prevent violence. Kelly Drane, senior research director at Giffords Law Center "There's some counties where they may only have two deputies on a shift. It may take 20 or 30 minutes to get to that school.

https://www.snopes.com/news/2023/04/28/shootings-schools-with-armed-staff/
For example, two Missouri students stole a gun from a substitute teacher in 2018, according to a Patch Media article. The school district had not granted teachers permission to bring guns on campus.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arming_teachers
In a 2019 national survey of 2,926 teachers, more than 95% did not believe teachers should carry a gun in the classroom, and concerns raised by teachers include how to keep the gun secured in the classroom, with one asking, "If a kid reaches for my gun, am I to shoot them?".

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/what-the-nations-largest-teachers-union-thinks-about-gun-violence-in-schools
PBS NewsHour from Jun 14, 2022. If Congress approves a bipartisan agreement on guns and school safety, it would provide new resources to try and prevent shootings like the massacre in Uvalde. That

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/05/31/arming-teachers-most-say-schools-would-be-less-safe-if-they-had-guns/70258290007/
While about 20% of the 973 teachers of kindergarten through 12th grade surveyed said they thought schools would be safer if they were allowed to carry guns on campus, 19% said they would

https://www.boisestatepublicradio.org/politics-government/2024-01-31/idaho-legislature-teachers-guns
That doesn't give teachers enough credit, said Rep. Julie Yamamoto (R-Caldwell) An educator for 32 years, Yamamoto said her district approached her about carrying when she was an administrator. "They asked if I was capable, and they allowed me to carry. Because no one was going to get to any of my kids or my teachers."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/tennessee-passes-bill-to-let-teachers-carry-guns-a-year-after-mass-shooting/ar-AA1nxcSI
Critics said the bill — which passed a month after the first anniversary of the killings — ignored the opinions of teachers and parents who don't want guns in schools; they accused the

https://futureofworking.com/14-arming-teachers-pros-and-cons-should-teachers-be-armed/
List of the Cons of Arming Teachers. 1. The presence of a gun raises the likelihood of its usage. The events of Columbine over two decades ago are usually treated as the start of the school shooting era in the United States. There are far too many acts of gun violence that happen in American society already.

https://www.campussafetymagazine.com/insights/guns-in-america-how-schools-can-mitigate-violence-teacher-turnover/124886/
Over the past six months, 27.4% of teachers said a threat was made by a student, and 21.7% reported a gun being brought into school. Further, one in three said they have experienced a shooting at

https://www.edweek.org/leadership/teachers-with-guns-district-by-district-a-push-to-arm-educators-is-growing/2023/09
At a public forum last summer, Scheu said a handful of people, many of them teachers, voiced concerns about colleagues carrying or storing firearms. The local teachers' union pushed back, too

https://time.com/5170304/trump-teachers-armed-guns-florida-school-shooting/
I never said "give teachers guns" like was stated on Fake News @CNN & @NBC. What I said was to look at the possibility of giving "concealed guns to gun adept teachers with military or

https://www.freep.com/story/opinion/columnists/2024/06/28/school-shootings-teacher-student-gun-violence/74218839007/
It's not giving teachers guns. It's not whatever is happening now — which feels to me like taking a chance. The chance that my students will enter their classrooms with fear.

https://www-edweek-org.libproxy.smith.edu/leadership/should-teachers-carry-guns-the-debate-explained/2018/08
A 2015 CBS News/New York Times poll found that 57 percent of all respondents opposed allowing teachers and staff to carry guns in schools, though the idea was more popular among Republicans.. Among educators, the idea is even less popular, according to recent surveys: Teach Plus, a national advocacy group for teacher leadership, polled 1,233 teachers and found nearly 80 percent said they

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/the-tennessee-senate-passed-a-bill-to-allow-armed-teachers-what-happens-next/ar-BB1lpfOe
Sen. Paul Bailey, R-Sparta, sponsored the legislation and said Tuesday a school principal could make a blanket decision not to participate and notify a director of schools they don't want to allow

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/frequent-gun-violence-near-school-grounds-harms-millions-of-kids-analysis-finds
From 2014 to 2023, communities across the U.S. saw more than 188,000 shootings within 500 yards of a school, an average of 57 shootings per day, according to a new analysis by The Trace. The

https://www.click2houston.com/news/politics/2024/06/25/more-than-500-people-have-been-charged-with-federal-crimes-under-the-gun-safety-law-biden-signed/
President Biden signed the gun safety legislation on June 25, 2022, a bipartisan compromise forged following a series of mass shootings, including the massacre of 19 students and two teachers at a

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2024/06/25/justice-department-supreme-second-amendment-felons/74206829007/
The Second Amendment issue involves a statute used in a significant share of federal criminal cases. It bars guns after convictions punishable by more than a year in prison.

https://www.usnews.com/news/elections/articles/2024-06-27/trump-biden-debate-when-to-watch-what-are-the-rules-and-more
According to a recent AP-NORC poll, 64% of people polled say they are likely to watch at least some of the debate live. Independents are less likely to follow debate coverage (41%) than their