Annie (or Aaron) Get Your Gun

Let’s just look at the logistics. Let’s say Annie is a 1st grade teacher at one of the elementary schools in Newport-Mesa. Let’s say she’s been trained. She handles guns. She has been a marine.

Where is she going to keep that gun in her classroom full of 26 little fresh-faced adorable kids? Is she going to strap it on as an open carry? Is she going to have a concealed carry? Just so you know, gun laws in CA do not allow teachers to carry guns in school. Yet.

So, what is Annie going to wear? Guns are not attractive except to possibly someone completely without fashion sense, and maybe little nuts as well.

Annie has decided to hide the gun. Where? Will it be strapped to her leg? Will it be on her hip? . Will it be locked and loaded? Or for safety sake, will it have the magazines removed? If so, where will those bullets be placed? Will she have to carry the magazines on her person too? Where will the gun be placed if not on Annie? Will it be in the closet or the desk so the kids can’t see it? Will the closet or desk be locked? Where will the key be? Will she carry the key with her at all times? Perhaps Annie will carry the key on her wrist? Might it be in the pocket of her clothes that she ostensibly will change every day? Will she always remember? Remember even the smallest guns are heavy.

And what about that gun? What kind of a gun should it be? Clearly, she can’t house an AR15 in her classroom, so it has to be a revolver. Knowing absolutely nothing about guns and having to google Glocks because it’s the only name I know. I found that a Glock 19mm might be the gun of choice. The Glock 19 fires shots individually but fairly fast and can fire fairly accurately at 25 yards.

Now the day that she has been preparing for tragically occurs. Let’s say every grade level in the school has a “Teacher Shooter”, so to be practical in a school of 500 kids, there are 3 of these teachers on “special assignment”.

The “Real Shooter is in the building or in Newport Mesa where the elementary classes are in the open in the open hall. The shooter alarm has been sounded and he (because it is always a he) is running around the building shooting kids who are either going to the bathroom or the office or another classroom. There are a group of kids outside watching Mr. Jones launch a small missile yet again. Let’s say Mr. Jones is a “Teacher Shooter” and is even lucky enough to be carrying without the magazine inserted. The Real Shooter is running down the hall shooting at Mr. Jones and the class of 37. His AR 15 is spraying the group. Will Mr. Jones have a chance to load his gun and accurately hit the Real Shooter even at 25 yards?

Meanwhile back in room 21, Teacher shooter Annie has done what she is supposed to do by locking the door and instructing the hysterical kids to go into a corner and huddle.

What is Annie supposed to do now? Get her gun wherever it is or pull it from her handy holster on her hip if that’s the way she wants to carry, leave her terrified children and go outside with her gun leaving the door unlocked and hunting down the shooter with a AR 15 with her Glock 19?

Annie now as the “Teacher Shooter”, would be confronting the “Real Shooter” with his AR-15 which can fire off 45 rounds per minute with her Glock 19. In addition, considering that hardened experienced police/military miss their targets 1/3 of the time, Annie is going to have zero chance. Not only in that nightmare Annie did not have time to lock the door to the classroom behind her, and has left her sweet kids exposed, and the “Real Shooter” probably knows it

This scenario doesn’t have to occur in first grade. The same drama could happen in any K-6, including middle school and high school where the only thing that is different is the size and number of the scared kids.

What if God forbid, there are two shooters?

I have included two YouTube videos which show a Glock 19 , and an AR-15; not to be an advertisement for them…God forbid, but to show you these guns to illustrate how this insane idea of arming teachers would work

A science teacher named Ken Donnelson in Colorado is one of these “Teacher Shooters”. He has only been one for a year. He carries his gun (Glock 9mm) in his boots. He has never worn boots before. He is not allowed to have a magazine in the gun. What?

Consider…Just Sayin