This week there has been an ever-going debate on whether or not teachers should be allowed to conceal guns on their person during school hours. Why is this such a hot topic right now, you might ask? Well, if you haven't watched the news in the past 3 months, it's in response to the massive amount of school shootings that have already happened this year alone.

We are at a record high for the number of school shootings in a year, and it's only March. I still cannot wrap my head around it. And what is the response of our government to these shootings? It's not to ban guns but rather to arm the teachers that enter into schools and take care of millions of kids every single day.

Donald Trump claims that having guns in schools will protect the children, teachers, administrators, etc. because a shooter will be too intimidated to enter a school with loaded weapons. I believe the exact term he used was that shooters are "cowards."

However, these teachers are only being equipped with handguns. These measly handguns will not be enough to stop a shooter with a gun that can shoot multiple bullets a second. Also, more often than not, the shooter will know that teachers are only armed with small handguns and that they don't stand a chance to the high-technology guns they are bringing in.

Also, in the event of a shooting, there is going to be so much chaos that the teachers with the handguns will have to process. They, along with the children, are going to be terrified; adrenaline running through their veins. The teachers might accidentally shoot a child, thinking that they might be the intruder. Or, a child might cling to a teacher for support because he or she is scared, but the teacher might act in a frenzy and shoot the child (again, by accident). Is this what we really want happening?

It is also a risky choice to have teachers carrying around a loaded gun every day during the school year. If put in the hands of the wrong person, it could lead to even more school shootings. In addition, the teacher might not know the correct way to use the handgun (because most teachers are not trained in gun handling) and he or she might accidentally pull the trigger and hurt a student or him/herself. Or, worse yet, if a child could somehow get a hold of the loaded handgun.

Children are curious and want to touch everything they see; there is no telling where their limits end. However, we should not be testing their limits with guns or with their own lives. I do understand that some teachers are trained in gun handling and will feel obligated to act and stop the shooter. And this is a very valid point. I cannot imagine the guilt a teacher who is trained in gun handling would feel if he or she did nothing in the event of a shooting. However, as I've reiterated above, most teachers do not have such training.

Trump claims that this gun control problem in school will be solved by adding more guns in the school system. Honestly, where is the logic in that? That's like saying you want to fight hate with more hate. It just isn't going to work! The solution is to put controls on guns. Right now, a 13-year-old can buy a gun, but you can't buy a lottery ticket until you are 18-years-old. So, let's put this into logical terms. A child can buy a deadly weapon, but you have to be an adult to buy something that might make your life exponentially better (because who doesn't want to become a millionaire overnight). There just really isn't any logic at all behind it.

Lastly, I want to leave you with this point. It is not fair that kids should feel scared to walk into their schools each and every day. I have heard kids tell me they are afraid to leave their parents in the morning for fear of never returning back to them. I even heard of a Kindergartener who snuck a gun into school because he wanted to protect his friends from an armed shooter.

A KINDERGARTENER! Children should be worried about their education, not whether they're going to have to experience an intruder with a murder weapon in the school they call their home. I should not have to be worried every day about whether or not I will run into an armed shooter on my commute between buildings on campus. Schools should be safe spaces. We are not going to achieve that by adding more murder weapons to them.