Issy, in all fairness I will concede that with the on going saga of regular mass killings in US schools, that your headline is a possibility at some stage in the future. But are you willing to concede that there is also a distinct possibility that my headline, or similar, is equally possible? The possibly of things, accidentally or purposely, going wrong with having armed teachers is simply far too great to countenance.

This is not about protecting school children at all. It is about offering a so called solution, whilst at the same time making sure the selfish rights of gunnies to carry on as they have in the past is protected.

Why woun't you talk about fair dinkum gun control in the US? Because that would mean the selfish gunnies would have to give up their arsenals of M16's, and we don't want that, now do we!

Is what you state to be the effective way of controlling outrageous violence in society, that is meeting armed force with armed force, the policy of your Shooters and Hooters Party in Australia? It may well be their closet policy, like so much of their other nonsense.

There is a certain viciousness about someone who would see children die at the hands of a fellow Gunnie, so they can carry on their own selfish pursuits with guns uninterrupted.
Like the coffin chasing Shooters and Hooters!

Paul,

How could a teacher protect self and the children when faced by an armed murderer in a school?

We all know what has happened when unarmed teachers faced those intent on murder; having no possible means of defence they were murdered.