By Riona Mackey-Wood Teachers should not be armed. Period. If you see a kid with an AR-15 coming down the hallway, is an untrained teacher really going to be able to fend that student off with a pistol? Wouldn’t shooting at someone with an assault rifle give more attention towards that room? If that teacher misses, he has now brought attention towards the room, and he will have to quickly lock the door once again, but now that shooter knows he -- and possibly more people -- are inside. As well as bringing attention to himself and his students, that teacher has now also angered the already angry shooter. No students should have to go through the traumatic experiences such as a school shooting. The simple solution? Ban assault rifles and special modifications, thus preventing civilians access to military-grade weapons. There is genuinely no need for these weapons. Australia has hunters as well, but after one of the biggest mass shootings in 1996, they banned all guns except single shot rifles. They haven’t had a single fatal mass shooting since. There is so much evidence supporting a ban on these weapons, yet Americans refuse to accept this. Apparently saving our guns are more important than saving our children. I’m all for protecting students; in fact, I’m fully prepared to throw my laptop at an intruder. However, putting a bucket of rocks in a classroom is honestly just degrading. Throwing rocks at someone with an AR-15 will have the opposite effect of what is wanted. It’s like in The Office when Jim Halpert threw a snowball at Dwight, starting a war between the two. Dwight then slaughtered Jim with an attack with snowballs, fueled by Jim’s attack. Arming teachers with pistols and students with rocks is like putting a band-aid over a broken leg. This will fix nothing. We need gun control. We don’t need to get rid of all guns, but we need to fix the larger issue. We should have found a solution after Columbine, after Sandy Hook, even after Charleston and Parkland and now Santa Fe. We keep seeing the issue, we keep complaining, yet we never do anything about it. It’s time for change well overdue. Photos Courtesy Of: twibc.com; Wikimedia
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