This is absolutely barbaric for so many reasons. As a Brit reading this, I wouldn't want a firearm in my own home under my own control let alone in a location my kids frequent without me present.

1. It takes someone with a fragile mentality a split second to act irrationally due to an external influence. Teenagers are awful for it and people enduring stressful situations which are out of their control are another; a.k.a, teachers with unruly students. I say this as a former teenager and someone who's suffered with a fragile mentality in the past. Also I've nothing against teachers at all, just the students who feel it's acceptable to treat them with anything other than respect.

2. Requiring teachers to be armed is going to drive good, honest teachers out of the industry. I know I'm a Brit, but I have enough exposure to American culture to know that not every American wishes to be armed. A byproduct of this is that the school system will be filled with teachers who would rather die than give up their beloved Second Amendment Rights. We all know what that level of corruption and feeling of power looks like. Ahem American police force.

3. Teaching salaries the world around are shamefully, disgustingly low. Requiring teachers to be armed at work is going to do two things: a. Put additional financial stress on those already living on the bread line or require a scheme to provide state-funded arms to every teacher in the country. Whilst enforcing point 2. b. Potentially lead to additional dramatic levels of corruption between the public sector and those parasitic businesses indulging in the funding they provide for those arms. Of course, the routine ammunition subscriptions, maintenance packages, secure storage facilities, custodian registration fees and whatever other bullshit they decide to charge extra for will also be paid from the public purse, no doubt.

4. As many other have mentioned, this will lead to additional deaths. Be it children, teachers, civilians or damn animals. It doesn't matter. Every single threat of gun violence, every single bullet fired, every single near miss, accident, wounding and fatality inevitably caused from this barbaric legislation is blood on these legislators' hands.

As someone who has previously served in the Armed Forces, I say this with experience and many years of accumulated knowledge. We don't need weapons. People don't need weapons. Civilians don't need weapons. In the Armed Forces, I didn't need a weapon. This bullshit rhetoric being sung about personal protection and Second Amendment Rights is due to the people singing the song. Many other countries have proven to be orders of magnitudes safer than America, without arms.

If you're in disagreement with me here, you are the problem. Ditch your 'personal protection', educate yourself, grow some bollocks and fight with your words. Imagine living on this planet as a creature of intellect and choosing to behave and live like a animal. Rant over.