[Logan]

The point is being missed by a lot of these comments. It does not matter if kids are not educated to the level you believe in. It does not matter if teachers are liberal or not. The point was made in the quote in the paper concerning the school staff member who retrieved his gun from his car and stopped the shooting in Mississippi.
It does not take weeks of training to become proficient with a handgun once you remove much of the tactics, room clearing etc out of the program and focused on the need at hand. Also the common threat is adults attacking schools or older teenagers who could be classified as adults. It would only take one armed teacher, janitor, principle or office staff with the fundamental basic skills to stop such an attack. There is no need for advanced L.E. tactics just the basic self defense pistol skills needed to stay alive. They would not be making arrest on fighting to stay alive or keep kids alive. These predators are targeting known unarmed victims. An armed individual in the school would change the dynamics greatly. Many if not most of the teachers and staff could be trained. Of course no one would be forced or required to but the laws can easily be adjusted to allow legally armed citizens to have a secured gun on campus still allowing for quick access.
The backward logic currently used bans a tool (firearms) from a specific location (school grounds) because criminals who don't follow the law anyway abuse the tool. This stops safe, trained and legal citizens from being able to defend themselves and others. There would absolutely be no increased danger to children if we allowed legally armed citizens to carry in school. But any of the last 3 events where kids were shot could have been stopped if ..Say the janitor had a firearm or the principle was armed.
Teachers already have a responsibility for the security of our kids and of themselves. We just don't let them have the tools for an extreme reaction to an extreme event.