In light of all the recent school tragedies, should teachers and staff be firearms trained and armed?

Yes a simple fire arm locked away to where kids cannot reach. This way once the alarm or warning or whatever they have at school is sound. The teacher can direct the kids to the safest part of the classroom, and he.she can defend them. I read a statistic a while back, I do not have a source but I don't think anyone will argue it. The average number of people killed in shootings when stopped by an armed citizen is 2.2 and the average number of people killed in shootings when stopped by the police is 14.4

It should be up the the teachers. Personally; I have a pistol in my pocket every day and they only reason I leave it in the glove box is if there is a metal detector. You wouldn't believe the number of bullets I have had to toss in the trashcan as im walking into an airport. Whats up with that law anyway? I can check my gun but not my bullets. Im sure im not the only one. Maybe you should think twice before tossing a spent cig into the trash. On a side note I just bought another AR15 and my neighbor asked me why when I already own one and the answer was simple."Its my right and the fact that i can carry one in each hand is just a bonus".

I disagree with Alex, Most other nations in the world have more restrictive gun laws than the United States. Based on Romans 13, those nations are within the authority God has given them to restrict gun ownership. The Bible does not command that guns (or weapons) be owned. Therefore, it is within the authority of the government to determine what restrictions, if any, should be placed on gun ownership. Should the United States of America one day ban gun ownership, the new laws should be obeyed.

But, let me say it loud and clear, banning guns would be an extremely bad idea. Criminals, by definition, do not obey laws. Psychotic mass murderers do not obey laws. With the proliferation of guns in the United States, if citizens were banned from owning guns, it would only be the good, law-abiding citizens who would obey the laws – precisely the people we want to have guns. Criminals would keep their guns. Psychotic mass-murderers would still find ways to acquire guns. There would simply be less people with the ability to stop or deter them.

The vast majority of gun owners in the United States of America have never harmed another human being, and never will. People use guns for hunting, for sport, or for an absolute last resort in self-defense. The fact that criminals use guns to commit crimes does not mean guns are the problem. Criminals are the problem. If all the guns in the world were taken away, criminals would find new ways to rob convenience stores, to commit muggings, to terrify people, and to commit horrible atrocities and mass-murders. No, gun control is not the answer.

On a personal note, my wife and I own two hand-guns. They are exclusively for self-defense. We sincerely hope we never have to use them. We actually question if we could ever use them to shoot a person. Is anything a criminal could possibly do to us worth us sending him/her to eternity without God? I don’t know.

Banning guns won't accomplish anything, nor trying to arm more people. You would have to have the teachers, including women, carry the guns strapped. In a locked drawer wouldn't work.

Also, consider the outcome of a killer with weapon aimed, and a teacher trying to draw. In addition, you don't want a gun fight in a school.

In another scenario, suppose its a teacher that goes berserk.

Israel has their teachers carry rifles to protect students from terrorists, so why don't we arm our teachers?

Yea because more guns make everything better. What if a student gets a hold of their guns? We hire teachers to nurture children not be paramilitary, gun control is the only option!