Well, all this macho chest-thumping about arming teachers and so forth is just silly --- slice a cross-section of National Educational Association members, and you'll find teachers and administrators willing to train to and use firearms as scarce as fat on filet mignon. Apologies to the few exceptions who are forum members, if it need be said, but as a class, public school teachers, college professors, administrators, etc., are mostly dyed-in-the-wool "hoplophobes", (Col. Cooper's coined term for irrational gun-haters), and are maybe one click above Buddhist monks in their aversion to using self-defensive or protective force, and are card-carrying sheep, for the most part. These are not the people we ought to look to, to defend schoolkids, or even themselves.