Just what we need in America ... More people to carry more guns to more places! When is this craziness every going to end. Soon it will be like living in Iraq!!!!

Has not allowing citizens to defend themselves worked? Why not allow those who are licensed and trained to carry handguns? They would acted as guardians of their fellow man.

Allowing responsible adults to fight back against monsters is a good idea.

Iraq is SAFER than USA! The criminals without permits are killing ppl, virtually NO ccw permit holders kill ppl because the screening is JUST AS INTENSE as Police officer background checks. People who know nothing should keep quiet lest their ignorance be seen by ALL! Anybody who thinks it's easy to get a ccw license in Michigan is SEVERELY mistaken! Take guns away from ccw holders & the ONLY ones with guns will be the criminals & the cops, which may find your family stiff & cold a week AFTER the criminal leaves. If just ONE teacher or worker at that school had a ccw, there may have been ZERO shootings simply because the shooter KNEW his PREY were defenseless.

If the teachers started firing back, there would have been even more deaths. More innocent people are killed in households with guns than in those without. Most mentally ill people are not violent, but if the shooter was mentally ill, it would have been easier and quicker for him to get a gun than to get treatment.

I made an assertion. I didn't tell lies. So I will not respond to your demand. If you have hard, unbiased scientific data that challenge my assertions, please present it in a respectful way, and I will consider it. If not, I will assume that my assertions are merely contrary to your beliefs.

Thanks Denise. Also a few other things I thought about it. He and many others like him kill themselves or commit suicide by police after their rampage. If the shooter knew the staff was armed, that would be no deterrent, and it might even be an incentive. Our Teaparty congressman-elect was a high school teacher at one time. He said he didn't like kids and wanted to make them cry. If he could legally bring a gun into school that would create a very dangerous situation. It wouldn't surprise me too if he was carrying back then as well. The big problem in this country is that we have a weapons-crazy culture in which guns are worshipped, and murdered children are collateral damage.

The school shooter committed the bulk of the carnage in about two minutes with a military style ASSAULT weapon that was LEGALLY purchased by his mother. How was a kindergarten teacher to defend against that? Did the shooter's mother (gun owner) succeed at defending herself or the 27 people in that school?

It needs to be passed!!!! Hands down a lunatic crazed phsyco will get a weapon no matter wut it takes!!! If more people who are capable and trained carry guns in these so called pistol free zones then maybe these crimes wouldnt be able to escalate to a mass murder such as school, theatres and so on am i making my point clear???? You mostly see this sick hanous crime happening in our pistol free zones so if ur not for it then well u dont care for the safety of your children. Id be happy to know that my son or daughters teacher is packin

This is reaching an absurd level. While I am not characterizing the views of anyone in this discussion other than what they (we) have written, I have been following the discussion elsewhere as well. I have seen that some people who advocate arming teachers are the same people who in other contexts refer to teachers as left-wing, communist, union thugs. You sure you want to arm them? Many of the people who say the issue in Newtown (and other sites of mass murder) was mental illness, not guns are the same people who support drastic funding cuts for mental health services. So are you willing to accept background checks? Or are you willing to pay for increased and improved mental health services through your tax dollars or higher insurance premiums? You can't have it both ways.