Over the past decade the number of school mass shootings has increased

leaving school officials across the country struggling with questions of how to best

protect students and staff and secure campuses.

This past year a number of states have either approved or are considering new measures

that would allow a teacher to carry a gun in the classroom.

Polls show that the majority of Americans don't favor arming teachers, but there are

varying views among parents, teachers, and educators. We're going to hear from some of

them now before Stephanie Sigh talks to an expert on school security.

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a teacher for 22 years thinking that people charged with loving and caring and guiding children would also be the people charged with shooting and killing the same child who might walk into their classroom one day, it's ludicrous. I can't begin

to imagine the day that I would be prepared to kill one of my own students. I just

can't. My name is Jan Bueler and I live in Oregon.

With all the school shootings that are going on, I think that it would just have armed staff,

trained armed staff, I should say,

it would be just an additional layer of protection for the kids.

My name is Austin Valtentero and I raised in New Orleans, Louisiana.

I do know that RNA staff makes me extremely nervous that seems kind of like productive for the goal of

making sure that schools feel safe especially considering that like statistics around

people using guns and self-defense are very underwhelming.

I am Amy Atlas and I live in Valaia, New York. My son is 16, goes to public school, and I don't think it should be required.

I think that's really an unfair thing to ask a teacher to take on.

But setting that aside, if you're a teacher, an administrator, and as long as you have the board's approval, I think it should be okay.

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