The invention of firearms and other modern weaponry has always been criticized for making the world more violent. The issues of gun possession for instance only becomes debatable when it comes to the intention of possession, or rather how the possessor intents to use it. The use of any weapon for self-defense is usually applauded, but the difference between self-defense and attack may sometimes be blurred. Gun possession in public institutions, and more so schools evokes strong debates with proponents highlighting its pros while opponents put forth strong potential harms.
Technically, a school environment characterized by many underage citizens performs better with minimal weaponry around, and hence teachers need not to have any guns within the school compound. Principally, the negative impacts of outweigh potential benefits.
To start with, anything that is in teachers’ hands eventually finds its way to the kids and its quite obvious that the kids possession of firearms is extremely dangerous. Though possession of guns comes with strict conditions that they should never land in unauthorized hands, modern day kids have proved to be uncontrollable. Kids at their teenage or before are curious individuals, who do anything to get hold what is contained by adults near them. For instance, kids have always been spotted with their parents and even teachers cell phones and the same is expected to happen if teachers were to possess guns.