I think that this is an interesting idea. While arming teachers would give them the opportunity to possibly use their guns against students, I think that this situation is pretty unlikely. Although trusting teachers with guns certainly feels very extreme, school administrators are already the people we trust to essentially act as our parents while we're at school. Therefore we already trust teachers to be safe responsible individuals, and trusting them to act that way while armed isn't a totally ridiculous concept. It is clear from the numerous school shootings that have occured that the measures we are taking to secure schools already are not effective. Many people's lives have been lost in these mass shootings and I think that teachers should have the right to defend themselves and their students in effective ways.Obviously teachers would need to take courses and fully understand how to safely handle guns so that they would be effective in an emergency and accidents would not happen. Consider the Sandy Hook shooting, if the teacher who threw herself in front of the gun in order to save her students had been able to defend herself with a gun, her life and countless children's lives could have been saved. Of course guns in the classroom are going to make all of us uncomfortable. But I think that having effective means of defense in classrooms is worth the risk.