Yeah, for sure: good teachers are too busy being TEACHERS to be in the teaching militia; the bad teachers are certainly not people you want to be armed.

I think of my son's teachers, all the ones he's had so far, and they are good at lots of things, from comforting a weeping toddler to teaching kids to count to 100 by fives to making cookies with a group of excitable kids to getting a child so completely covered with paint that I later find it in his nose. But it's really hard to picture any of them happily coming to work with a gun in a shoulder holster. They shouldn't have to. And we certainly shouldn't put them in a situation where they have to kill for our kids, or die for them.