I could not live in a community that had guns in schools. I would move.

What if the teachers end up shooting the students????

who will protect us at the movies, shop rite, Macy's, JCC, St Barnabus health care, Kessler and the community pool etc. does it just stop at the schools or should we not concern ourselves with the main issue getting the guns and the type of assault weapons off the streets through gun control.
Nuclear weapons won't kill u either if they stay out of the wrong hands.

ABSOLUTELY NOT!! People, we are overreacting. There is no way to stop a wacko if they really want to kill someone. There is a greater chance of being struck by lightning, or being killed by someone driving while texting or talking on a cell phone than in a situation like Newtown. We need to work on gun control and mental health issues. Arming our teachers is an accident waiting to happen!!

The answer is to get assault weapons off the streets and tighten all gun control laws. If trained police officers sometimes make mistakes with guns, what would happen if a teacher tried to protect his/her students with a gun? Teachers are trained to teach; that's stressful enough.

Even if you think there should be armed people in the schools, I don't think there's enough training that can be given to any teacher -- either just one time or regularly occurring -- to make this a safe idea. Actual professional police officers, who start at the academy and continually train to hone their skills, have been known to have occasional "weapon retention" problems, where a bad guy gets their weapon during a struggle; they also have been known to make debatable "use of deadly force" decisions, despite that being arguably the single most important thing they train for. How long until the first incident where an armed teacher has his weapon taken by and used by a student who was in the middle of a fist fight before someone with a gun helpfully appeared within reach? How long until the first jumpy teacher "errs on the side of caution" and blows away a student who didn't actually had a weapon? When even the professionals sometimes get it wrong, I don't want to put amateurs into that job. (If we want to discuss putting dedicated SRO cops into schools, I think that's a discussion that makes more sense to have -- though I lean against that idea as well.)

First, I believe Mr. LaPierre did NOT call on school districts to arm their teachers. He suggested that we hire armed and trained people to protect our children. And why not? Who but our children are more deserving of at least an attempt to provide protection? There are never any 100% guarantees in this world but it’s better than leaving loved ones unprotected.
Nobody wants to believe we need armed security guards in our schools but things have changed. WHY they have changed is a topic that will be discussed for months and years.
Putting aside the constitutionality of taking guns from law-abiding citizens, there’s just no way to get all the guns off the streets. The only firearms that the government has a record of are the ones belonging to the good guys, the honest people who purchased their firearms legally. Does anybody really think the bad guys would voluntarily surrender their guns?
So, what do I think will keep West Orange schools safer? Until society figures out a way to identify and eliminate the threat from the individuals who seek to do these evil things to innocent people, I reluctantly say yes to armed guards. Same for Macy’s Kessler, movie theaters and such. I see no other immediate solution.

Having armed teachers is not practical. We need tighter security checks for guns and no assault weapons for ordinary citizens. Emergency buttons linked to police departments and flashing, sounding lights seem better to me. Also, continue w/ careful checks of visitors to schools upon entrance and of course locked doors at all points in the school.