Sheriff Jones wants to give teachers guns?

Well, I think what the Sheriff was saying is that we need to have at least one armed person in every school. Middletown High School may have an armed police officer, but none of the elementaries do are probably the majority of the schools in the state don't. I think it is a good idea to have a police officer at every school, though this would increase police budget tredmendously.

Allowing teachers to carry a handgun makes sense to me. The argument made above that this is a reactionary measure as it does not address the prevention aspect of the situation is not well thought out. Violence and many other unfortunate things will always happen no matter how hard we work at prevention.  However to only focus on prevention and not take action that could potentially minimize those situations is negligent.