<h2>We want to prevent three main types of events.</h2> 

* Students being shot by shooters; 
* Students being accidentally shot by teachers returning fire; 
* Students being deliberately shot by teachers.

<h3>Arming teachers can mitigate the first at the cost of the other two; but what if we could arm teachers as a group without arming any one individual?</h3> 

Picture a thumbprint activated gun-safe in each classroom, with all safes networked together via encrypted wi fi. 
Some teachers would voluntarily undergo firearms/crisis training before having their thumbprints added to the network's database, valid for all safes at that school. 

While a teacher holds their thumb on a scanner, that safe stays closed, but *all of the other classroom safes* buzz and light up, to alert the other teachers and students, and are primed so that they'll *open with an authorised thumbprint.* 
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**Any one teacher having a sudden, psychotic episode is unable to access a firearm. 
He/she is only capable of allowing firearm access to all the other authorised teachers in the school.** 
A rampage with school-supplied weapons is only possible if two teachers, each of whom has passed a multitude of clearances and tests before having their prints added, collude in advance, which is incredibly unlikely.

It would act as a school-wide early warning system, and could be combined with internal battery backups, and intercoms so the alerting teacher could describe the sighting to his now armed colleagues.
Training those teachers to kneel in the doorway and fire horizontally would prevent the accidental shooting of non-com students, who could be drilled to lie on the floor upon hearing the buzz.

A prospective school shooter wouldn't see a bulge to know which teachers were armed and therefore a threat, nor could they start a spree by overpowering a teacher and taking their weapon. 
Teachers could also move between classrooms and even between schools throughout the day, without needing to take anything with them. 
The system could be customised to include different safes for different firearms in different areas of the school, or include sensor-only modules, allowing a trusted party, like a crossing guard, to prime all of the safes without storing a weapon in that particular spot. 

As it stands, a teacher may see potentially menacing behaviour, but not have enough justification for calling in the police. Thumbing the safe would arm and alert his colleagues, and if it turned out to be nothing, the system could be quickly reset, and lessons could resume without further fuss or fanfare.

<h2>I think this makes for a potential compromise. 
Those who want armed teachers get most of the benefits they want, and those who don't, get most of the safeguards they're after. 
Ultimately, having a system like this in place could prove such an effective deterent that it's never actually used, which would be fantastic.</h2>

**As always, have a great day.**

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