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that doing so would be a public health hazard, escalating violence and posing a risk to both students and staff at schools. Opponents state that teachers could accidentally shoot themselves or accidentally shoot students or staff, that teachers could accidentally discharge their firearm, that there are legal risks associated with improper use of firearms that could create a heightened liability risk for insurance companies, that a teacher responding to a perpetrator with force could be mistaken as the perpetrator by law enforcement, that black students would feel less safe around armed teachers due to
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applies general restrictions on bringing guns to schools but provides the option for states to designate specific people to carry guns in schools. Research regarding arming and training teachers is limited. While some researchers have not found evidence that arming teachers increases safety in
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found only 18 percent of shots fired by trained police officers in gunfights hit their criminal targets. This suggests four or five of every six shots fired by comparably trained teachers would hit something or someone other than the targeted shooter.
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1640:"Pistol Packing Teachers: What Do Students Think?"
834:"Kenya:Government urged to arm teachers with guns"
570:"A Public Health Argument Against Arming Teachers"
1300:"Trained, Armed and Ready. To Teach Kindergarten"
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542:Huff, Aimee; Barnhart, Michelle (May 27, 2022).
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232:Beginning in January 2004, terror campaigns by
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