Armed teachers the much safer bet

Your Sept. 2 editorial labeled Texas as a scary place, due in part to a school that now allows armed teachers. I’m sure you meant well, but how many students’ lives are you really willing to sacrifice to continue advocating your anti-gun policy? The gun-free zones obviously haven’t worked — all they have done is create places where killing is easier, for those determined to kill.

You don’t seem to expect much violent crime to happen in Harrold, Texas. But all school shootings happen in places where they do not expect it to happen. And once it starts, it only ends when the shooter decides to quit or when someone else stops him. It is sheer insanity to intentionally make it so that nobody in close proximity is capable of making a shooter stop before he decides to quit. And from the perspective of the students and teachers in the building, there is absolutely nothing worse than the feeling of hopelessness and helplessness that occurs in a situation like that, knowing you could die and that there is absolutely nothing you can do about it.

Weighing the danger of responsible, trained, law-abiding adults carrying guns in school versus the danger of one or two wacked-out people carrying guns in school, it’s a no-brainer. I would happily send my children to a school with armed teachers, knowing they are safer than students in schools anywhere else.

Chris Brose

Mountlake Terrace