Armed teachers

sir – In recent years, thousands of knives have been seized from children and teenagers in British schools.

According to Donald Trump’s logic (“Trump: Armed teachers may be the solution”, report, February 22), we should encourage teachers to arm themselves with knives. Emilie Lamplough

Trowbridge, Wiltshire

sir – If the teachers at my prep school had been armed, they would have shot most of us. Rod Macleod

Maidstone, Kent

sir – King George III is responsible for the American obsession with firearms.

Had he not used the army to enforce a foolish taxation policy, the colonists would not have needed weapons to resist it and guns would not have entered the nation’s founding myths. Alan Richardson

Penrith, Cumbria