 Hello, everybody. I am your host, Johnny Q. Welcome to my YouTube channel. And I don't know why I said host, but it just makes me feel kind of cool. Like a podcast style, but not really. Here we go. And we're gonna get right into it guys, because I've been talking about this for quite a bit. And I finally saw an article online. This is by Education Week. Let me read it to you. Will having teachers carry firearms or school security make schools more or less safe? What teachers think? And this is the graph portion of that article. If you want to read the article, I'll link it down below. But this is the graph. As you can see here, we have a circle graph. And about 54% of this graph teachers are saying it's less safe that teachers carry firearms in the classroom, like in school to protect their students. Another 20% said more safe. And then 26% said, eh, I don't really know. Kind of saying I don't really care, but they will go to school for 10 plus years to be an educator to teach students about the parallelogram, the paragatherium, whatever that's called, like, you're saying that you're gonna spend more time and money educating yourselves on education and the option to carry a firearm in a school to potentially protect your kids and other kids at the school is like, no, we're not doing it. I don't know about you, but that to me is just wild. That's crazy. Now, that chart does display about 1000 different educators that were surveyed for this specific topic. And I guess what I gathered from that is that teachers, even let's say a police department or a good training company would come into the school and they would teach a certain amount of teachers. Even then, they wouldn't want to carry a gun because it's deemed less safe for the kids. Let me tell you, I carry my gun every single day. I am trained. I know what to do if that thing happens. And I will go do it gladly to save my family, myself and other people. If I was a school teacher in a school, middle school, a high school, a preschool, a university, I would most likely, I would 110% sign up to take that course to get myself a everyday carry gun, a licensed gun to keep my students safe. And what I'm not saying is that if you are an educator and you disagree with me that you are a bad person. That's not what I'm saying. I was strictly looking at this graph specifically that over 1000 people, men and women were surveyed. And what was it? Over 54% said that teachers carrying firearms to help students be safe, it would deem it less safe. How does that make sense? Make it make sense? I mean, do we not see what's going on in our country? We have school shooters almost every single month. We have legit school shootings at preschools, middle schools, universities, places of worship. We need people to step up in this country and actually care about the well being of other people. What happened in Uvaldi is wild. Okay, if that teacher or even one or two teachers would have been armed and potentially licensed to carry and wanted to do that to protect their kids and the school, that may have been a lot less deadly. And it's unfortunate and tragic that happened. But I truly believe that as Americans, as people who live in this country, we need to start thinking about this because people are going to get guns, no matter what, if they want to do something bad, and they're barred from doing it, they will find a way. When I was a police officer, let me tell you, people found ways to be bad and mean and still commit crimes, even though they went to jail and prison around probation. They still did it because it was who they were. That's what they did. So to see something like that chart and say that teachers would deem it less safe, if teachers would carry a gun to protect their students, I'm honestly a little frazzled. I feel like I got bamboozled. Maybe I read that wrong. Maybe the study was wrong. But there's just no way like I would want it to serve a five or 10,000 educators in the country now and see what they would say, because I want to think that educators would say, yeah, I would love to be trained. And I'm not saying every single educator in the school, I'm talking like one to two, maybe three core educators that want to take that role on. And I understand that's not their job. Their job is to educate their job is to foster that learning ability within their kids in their classroom. The other thing should be dealt through the police. I get it. We're even a school resource officer. But even then that's one person. Okay, when I was a police officer, our this is wild. Our city voted to have SROs in schools and they had to vote on it. And it was so close that people didn't want a school resource officer in schools. Like we're talking a police officer who is somewhat trained and would hopefully train firearms that they would be able to stop a threat if a threat came in into a school. People were having a hard time voting. Yes, we should have an SRO in our school to protect my kids. Are you kidding me? And it wasn't even all the schools in the city. And this happens every single day everywhere in this country. And it just honestly, it baffles me. It's irresponsible. In my opinion, we're spending millions of dollars on school, high school alone, we're spending millions of dollars on locker rooms, football fields, gear, the students, scholarships, cool. But all that goes away if someone with a long gun and some okay training walks in with 25 mags, 30 rounds each and starts going ham. I mean, it is just it's truly baffling to me that we're in this stage. And so I would hope in 2024 and beyond one or two core teachers would want to take this role on and be trained and say, you know what, I'm going to do this because I care about my community. I care about my kids and the students here and the teachers that I work with my coworkers that if something were to happen, I have some level of training with the firearm with entry level room clearing that I can go do this and make sure that that threat takes a forever nap. Man, it is it baffles me. It really does. It makes me angry because I just feel like why wouldn't you? Why would you say that guns make it less safe for students? And I understand this is what people are using to hurt other people. Okay, this is what they're using. So you need to be smart and use that. But in a safe manner, like for example, cars are not inherently dangerous. But if someone whoever were to just drive through a parade of people going 80 miles an hour, that's pretty dangerous. But we all know how to drive. Some of us know how to drive. We put our seatbelts on and we go from A to B and back to A without dying. Okay, like that's just we know how to do that. All I'm saying is a couple of core people, individuals who would take that on that role, that responsibility to say, you know what? I'm going to train. I want to protect my kids and make it a little bit more safe for students to come to my school, to come to my classroom. How much more do you think that we would be more well equipped to handle a school shooting? Just my tidbit. So there's a lot to unpack here, even in this short video. But if you have some thoughts or comments, comment down below, read that article. Let me know what you think. Do you think your teacher, your professor would carry a gun to protect themselves, the students and coworkers? I sure would hope so. I would think. But you know what? People just let you down all the time. So maybe they don't. But just please understand, I'm only saying this because police, they're trained to do this kind of thing. Well, some departments are. But even then, if they get there quick, we're wasting one, two, three, four, five minutes, if not more, where a shooter can walk in and for about two to five minutes, just do whatever. Unless we have trained and somewhat capable people with a concealed carry firearm and know what to do when it happens. And that's all I'm saying to be open to the idea that a gun can be used as a good thing from a teacher's standpoint in a school to potentially stop a deadly threat. Anyway, that was a lot to unpack. I hope that you guys enjoyed this video. Please comment down below what you think. I would love to know what you think. And I will catch you in the next Johnny Q video. Peace out.