Poll finds Utah voters OK with guns in classrooms

[alp227]

Most Utahns support guns in classrooms but think parents should be told which teachers are armed, according to a UtahPolicy.com poll released Monday.

The poll found that 64 percent of likely voters think teachers should "definitely" or "probably" be allowed to carry concealed weapons in the classroom, with 60 percent of voters saying educators who bring guns to school should be required to inform parents and school administrators.

"Utahns really don’t seem to have a problem with guns in the classroom, at least concealed weapons by the teachers," said Bryan Schott, managing editor of UtahPolicy.com.

The survey was conducted by Dan Jones & Associates and polled 395 likely voters Sept. 16-18, a week after a Utah teacher’s concealed weapon discharged in a faculty bathroom before school started Sept. 11. It has a margin of error of 4.93 percent. Utah Policy’s polls are paid for by Zions Bank.

full: http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/58441878-78/poll-teachers-utah-concealed.html.csp

[Historic NY]

1. Until something happens....

not everyone is responsible with a gun.

[ileus]

2. As long as the carried on their person...

and not in purses, brief cases, or locked desk drawers.

[Eleanors38]

3. Guns or no, the best way to stop mass killings at schools...

is by taking measures to better secure and "harden" schools. Some invest in limited access, some armored spaces, some with more LEOs, some with armed personnel. The point is to ACT to secure schools; hopefully, action is widespread.

[virginia mountainman]

4. IMPOSSIBLE!!!!!!!!!!! 90% of voters back more gun control!!!!!!!!!

LIES!!!!!!!! its all LIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THIS IS NOT THE BACKLASH THEY PROMISED US!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[NYC_SKP]

5. This is probably because they have more familiarity and knowledge of guns than many other places.

And, correspondingly, less fear and misunderstanding.

[jimmy the one]

6. utah teacher guns down school toilet

va mtn man: IMPOSSIBLE!!!!!!! 90% of voters back more gun control!!!!!!!!! LIES!!!!!!!! its all LIES!!!!! THIS IS NOT THE BACKLASH THEY PROMISED US!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LIES!!!!!!!! >>> well, misleading, since 90% of voters wanted background checks, which is simply a subset of gun control. Gun control efforts garner about 55 - 65% support, generally, from all voters, altho approx. 80% amongst registered democrats.
And uh, mtn man, you do realize Utah does not represent the entire united states don't you? it's a very pro gun state, which is why it has the majority support it does to arm teachers.

alps link: .. poll found that 64% of likely voters think teachers should "definitely" or "probably" be allowed to carry concealed weapons in the classroom, with 60% of voters saying educators who bring guns to school should be required to inform parents and school administrators. "Utahns really don’t seem to have a problem with guns in the classroom, at least concealed weapons by the teachers,"

Oh, my: sept 11, 2014: A Utah elementary school teacher who was carrying a concealed firearm at school was struck by fragments from a bullet and a porcelain toilet when her gun accidentally fired in a faculty bathroom.. The sixth-grade teacher- Salt Lake City suburb, was injured when the bullet struck a toilet and caused it to explode. .. Authorities initially thought the teacher had accidentally shot herself. They now believe she was injured when the bullet and toilet fragments struck her lower leg... has been a teacher with the school for 14 years but he did not have her age. She was carrying her gun legally with a concealed-firearm permit..
..Utah is among the few states that allow people with concealed-weapons permits to carry guns in public schools,
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/teacher-accidently-shoots-leg-school-25431716

[Straw Man]

7. If one non-fatal accident invalidates an entire concept ...

... then police officers would have been disarmed a long time ago.

[jimmy the one]

8. Teacher 2nd amendments filing cabinet

We have had our third in-school accidental discharge by an armed teacher during the still-very young 2014-2015 school year.
A criminal justice instructor at Technology Center accidentally discharged a handgun during class, striking a file cabinet and hollow wall. The instructor, a retired FBI agent, wasn't authorized to have the gun on school property.. "It's not part of the curriculum. It's nothing we knew he had,"

Three students were watching the instructor's demonstration about 1:30 p.m. in an office adjacent to a classroom, where other students were preparing for the start of class .. No one was struck by the bullet, which ended up lodged in another classroom..
You will recall that last month saw an armed 6th grade teacher injure herself with porcelain shrapnel as she accidentally Second Amendmented the toilet out from beneath herself in the faculty restroom, and an Idaho State University professor Second Amendmented himself in the foot during class.
Six weeks of school (counting from the week of August 25), and three teachers have already accidentally fired their handy little safety tools in school. Looking sharp, people. Looking sharp.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/10/04/1334382/-Seriously-people-This-armed-teacher-thing-really-might-not-work-out?detail=email#

[friendly_iconoclast]

9. Let us know how your campaign goes, mmkay?

[friendly_iconoclast]

10. They should have made it double-super unauthorized, which would have prevented it