Clarification for “38 states ‘allow it’ ”

38 states have laws which in some way specifically allow armed staff. ‘armed staff’ can also include ‘school resource officers’ assigned to the school and these may not always be city or county law enforcement like people think. Some states allow school districts to permit schools to hire armed security companies to act as ‘school resource officers’ and they are considered ‘school staff’ – so it may not always be teachers and other types of school staff.

For specifically armed teachers in schools – as of April 2024 it was 33 states and 3/4 of those schools K-12 in those states had/allow (by some manner) armed teachers. These states are:

Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Idaho
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Wyoming

Note though, to add – a grey area – although some states may not allow ‘teachers’ specifically to carry they may allow hired ‘armed security guards’ to carry and thus allow teachers that get a ‘security guard’ permit to carry and states keep it quiet by not identifying these armed teachers but rather as ‘security guards’ or sometimes ‘school resource officers’ – this has been known to happen. So its possible in these states that say they do not allow armed teachers, that they actually do have at least some smaller number of armed teachers called ‘security’ (or sometimes ‘school resource officers’) but it difficult to get numbers for these teachers because of the ‘security guard’ (or sometimes ‘school resource officers’) type classification.

My sister works with an organization that seeks to arm teachers and other school staff and get them trained to defend students against these mentally ill killers.

Correction for: “…In state all the district school boards in the state allow it except in 3 areas…”

Should have been …

…In my state all the district school boards in the state allow it except in 3 areas…

“How many K-12 schools in America, roughly, allow armed staff?”

38 states “allow it”, by last count last year. How many schools actually do it though? Roughly 3/4 of the schools in those 38 states.

Generally, in states that allow it … its left up to the district school board. In state all the district school boards in the state allow it except in 3 areas that are predominately blue and those areas are the only ones in the state that have had attempts.

How many K-12 schools in America, roughly, allow armed staff? What percentage is that?

How many school shootings have happened at schools that advertise armed staff? (According to this article, zero.)

How many school shootings have happened at schools declaring themselves to be “gun-free zones”?

Good answers to these questions, I think, should allow people to reach some simple common-sense conclusions.

https://www.ammoland.com/2025/06/armed-intervention-you-are-your-own-first-responder-says-mi-church-volunteer/

We use that type of sign here except ours read “STAFF IS ARMED … And when necessary, staff will use all force available including deadly force to protect students and staff.” – at one school someone used a marker to add to one of the signs ‘so don’t be necessary, if you are you will die.’ The signs are a relatively new addition, we’ve had armed school staff here in our school district for years.

related above video:

A New Constitutional Challenge to Terrible Gun Laws. (explains why it was found unconstitutional).

“Today we are discussing a crazy gun law in Pennsylvania that was just succesfully challenged, but not on the traditional 2A grounds that we talk about here so often. Washington Gun Law President, William Kirk, discusses the matter of Pennsylvania v. Sumpter a now successful Equal Protection challenge to a law which required permits for even open carry, but only in the City of Philadelphia. But the manner in which this law was challenged a a brilliant legal chess move.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0sslZDDVrE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OK1E4Tyu680