>>>>What a bunch of idiots. The potential for accidents and/or nuts on the staff makes this a very stupid move. The answer is NOT to arm everybody (sounds like Taliban country). Needless to say I would remove my kids from that school immediately.
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>>>Yes. Far better to be victims.
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>>The odds of some gun-related problem happening are far greater if start actually inviting the guns into schools.
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>That would make an interesting argument if it were a fact.

It's already an area where there are no facts available, pretty much like that of smoking, health industry, economy. There's only lobbying, propaganda and other drivel spewed by either side, quasi-scientific rehashing of results squeezed out of small samples, and politics on top of it.

In this particular case, I think the combination of firearms and kids is rather accident prone - there's the flammable age when any idea may sound crazy enough to try (be it for peer pressure, belief that the idea of "alpha male" is something the animals also believe in, be it a side effect of all those ADD and other legalized narcotics dealt by the in-house shrinks and parashrinks). Add to that the effect of negative selection on the staff side - who are the teachers? The people who couldn't get a better job but to work in a school where a sidearm may come handy. Who knows what kind of expensive narcotics (aka antidepressants, trancs and what not) they get from their legal dealers.

I think within a year we can expect a milestone court verdict on some crucial case, which will be a must-know for the following years' bar exams.