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Let's also not forget that teachers often work in the school after hours. A very large building with next to no one around leaves lots of opportunity for rapists and others to prey on teachers. That doesn't get the national headlines like our children getting abused or killed, but I think is also a valid reason to allow teachers to carry (and others equally qualified to do so).

I hear on the news the steps Houston schools are taking for increased security...hall monitors and portable metal detectors. This is great for catching kids dealing drugs or bringing weapons to school "just in case," but it does nothing for the person already dedicated to doing violence.

No, for that person, there is no law that will stop them. No hall monitor calling in on a radio will stop it. The metal detector will just go ding, ding, ding.

The only thing that will stop that person is a bullet. That puts guns in schools in the hands of good people that know how to use them.

As I mentioned in another thread some time ago, I would be willing to go to special training and get special certification to carry my firearm in a school (or plane or post office). I'd do it at my expense and wouldn't charge the taxpayers for it. I'd go back for requalifications. Whatever it takes. There are a lot of good people that have skill at arms that would be willing to help.

A law allowing CHLers to carry in schools certainly cannot increase the likelihood of these actions as the actors are not hindered by their actions being illegal. However, this can act as a deterrent to some actors that decide against it. And maybe, just maybe, a bullet from a good guy can save the lives of our most precious.

I am all for peace. But I believe in peace through strength and the ability to conquer aggressors.