Arming Teachers Is a Dumb Idea

by Dan Savage
It's dumb for all sorts of reasons and those reasons are being unpacked right now all over the Internet. I'd like add one more reason to the pile...
When I was in high school—a sophomore at St. Gregory the Great in Chicago—some kids in my class stole a teacher's car. Okay, okay: I was one of those kids. (Some of the shit I did in high school would land my on a terrorist watch list today*.) So on that day at St. Greg's, one of us (me) reached into our teacher's purse whe