On the Behalf of Students: Stop the Movement of Initiatives to Have Educators Carry Guns Into the Classroom

Many states including mine, Tennessee, have state representatives and/or state senators who want educators to have firearms in the classroom. They claim this is for the benefit of the students. However, as a high school student, the idea of knowing that the teacher in front of me has a gun in their desk would make me feel completely unsafe at school. I would be afraid to go everyday. What's to stop a student from stealing the teacher's gun and shooting a classmate, or a teacher to shoot a violent student when other appropriate measures could be taken? In the California shooting; the gunman was stopped with words, not violence. You don't fight guns with more guns. I know many students feel the same way.