“Teachers carrying guns … “ Want to start an argument? Utter that line at a cocktail party. But is it a problem, a solution, or both? As for as being problematic, it largely isn’t. Takeaway The number of gun discharges on campuses in almost immeasurably small. Most of the problems are police/security having accidental discharges. These account for 0.04 incidents per year per state. The Iffy Data One of the gun control advocacy groups created a “scare the public” web page listing instances of adults with a gun on “school” grounds. We put quotes there because more than a few of the schools on the activist organization’s roster were vocational schools and colleges. When discussing “arming teachers,” the public tends to visualize this as pertaining to K–12 schools only. But that isn’t the only defect in their raw data. They extracted the tally of incidents from the Gun Violence Archive … Continue reading →