/——/ The police will know ahead of time which teachers are armed. The teachers are instructed to lay down their arms once the police arrive. The guns are kept in lock boxes until needed. It’s really not that complicated.And then you get shot by a cop who thinks you’re the school shooter.
you're the Athletic Director, you're in your office (front left beside the sign over the door) - you hear shooting and kids screaming for their life .. you open the gun safe in your closet, get your Glock 23 semi auto 9mm pistol and start out the door ... at the other end of the hall theres a kid standing at the bottom of the stairs with a semi auto AR 15 spraying shots down the hall in your direction as fast as he can squeeze the trigger, and bullets whizzing by you one after the other .. lets say those stairs are at least 45-50 steps, probably more... a lengthy shot for a pistol whatever the exact distance ... under those conditions, students running every direction, crowded hallway - could
YOU
leave your room, stay under total control,take careful aim and kill or wound the shooter stopping him from killing students without hitting and injuring any kids yourself?
Ive been around guns all of my life. I started shooting .22 rimfire pistols when I was 6 - .357 mag pistols when I was 12. I rate the degree of difficulty in that exact scenario on a scale of 1-10 .. 100+
what would you do ?
Or by another armed teacher a distance away. Who himself then gets shot by the cop who thinks he's the shooter. And so on and so on and so on....
That is, unless that other armed teacher is no longer armed because he had his firearm stolen by the kid who's now doing the shooting, thereby eliminating his need to bring arms to the school -- they're already there. So not only is that teacher no longer armed, he's no longer alive either, by his own gun.
What a great plan. Can't think of anything that could possibly go wrong. Here in the world of comic books.
"Police knowing which teachers are armed" means they have a list of names. It cannot mean a random cop knows who that silhouette in the distance is.
As for the disposition of the firearm, if it's in a lock box and the shooter's outside somewhere, that's going to be a considerable time to get TO the box and retrieve it while simultaneously looking over one's shoulder; if it's not in a lock box but rather on the person, then that invites countless opportunities for the firearm to get stolen, or lost.
You're right, it's really not that complicated. Never has been.