Perhaps you can suggest to your Principal
that he/she spreads the rumor that all teachers are carrying.
She wasn't negligent?
A COP 357 derringer is a good carry gun. Is what I carry. 110% reliable and easy to conceal.
[But the situation with the Utah teacher isn't just about an ND, it's about her severe lack of judgment in deciding to carry concealed when she lacked the experience or skills to do so safely.
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By your standards (that I agree with), more than half the people who carry a gun would not qualify to carry. Most states don't even require you to demonstrate proficiency with a gun in order to carry one. And if they do, it's 8 hours of watching videos and listening to war stories from retired cops, followed up by maybe 25 rounds from 7 yards to show you are "trained".
it's 8 hours of watching videos and listening to war stories from retired cops, followed up by maybe 25 rounds from 7 yards to show you are "trained".
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I am an educator and I would not carry while teaching. My first and most important task is to develop relationships with children and I don't think that I could also perform the dual role of armed school security. My relationships with students depend on physical proximity and a concealed gun would definitely influence the area of my comfort zone. School shootings are horrible events to be certain but significantly less likely to occur than an armed teacher losing credibility before his or her students because he or she has been exposed as an armed guard. If forced to arm myself at school I would consider keeping a revolver locked in my desk. Never on my person, though.
Oddly, I carry as often as allowable when travelling with my 8-year old.
Yeah, then you get in the middle of one of these scuffles and kid grabs your leg. Feels the gun. How the hell are you going to retain the firearm on your ankle? No way I would go ankle. Somewhere on my torso where I have retention methods that apply as long as I am conscious.Again, have you considered boot carry? That would be difficult to get loose, and at the same time be quite concealed vs. random close contact (because it would feel like, a boot.
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Again, have you considered boot carry? That would be difficult to get loose, and at the same time be quite concealed vs. random close contact (because it would feel like, a boot.
Yeah, then you get in the middle of one of these scuffles and kid grabs your leg. Feels the gun. How the hell are you going to retain the firearm on your ankle? No way I would go ankle. Somewhere on my torso where I have retention methods that apply as long as I am conscious.
Once your reason for concealed carry goes from self defense to protection of your classroom
Is it to be a guardian for the school or for the self and those who happen to be in the inescapably immediate proximity?
Is it to be a guardian for the school or for the self and those who happen to be in the inescapably immediate proximity?