After all the violence in schools that the country has suffered through recently, the biggest concern for everyone is how to be safe. I think that allowing teachers to have guns in classrooms will provide the comfort students need in school. Although most argue that only professional school public safety officials should carry concealed weapons, I believe that allowing teachers to carry guns will protect the students. Students will feel safe because if an intruder was to enter the school, almost every classroom would be armed, not just the one security officer in the other wing of the building. With that being said, I do not think that teachers should just be handed a class roster, name tag, and a gun on the first day of school. Instead, they should be psychologically analyzed, trained, and tested before handling the gun. If a teacher fails to meet the requirements needed to obtain the gun, the board could simply not let that specific teacher have one or replace him with someone who can meet the requirements. It will also be best if the gun is locked in a secret compartment that is student-proof but also easily accessible in case of emergency. To ensure extra security, an alarm could go off anytime a teacher opens the compartment that holds the gun so that everyone else in the school knows there is danger and can put their classrooms under lockdown. Allowing only security officers to carry weapons is what we’ve been doing in the past and read any newspaper to see how well that turned out. The “norm” threatens the safety of students. It’s time for a change in school safety and the change should start with armed