"Understood, sir. Like I said, I'm just trying to objectively examine some of the possible underlying issues with allowing students and teachers to carry weapons."

She smiles, sort of tentatively. "Liability and insuring safe delivery of cargo are kind of in my blood."

A pensive expression comes over Valentine's face. "I'm not sure how we can go about assuring the principal that we won't use the weapons on each other. Tempers run high around here. I'll think about that. Maybe we can have some kind of student-consensus about what we can each to do intervene in a situation that looks like it might get weapons-hot. Maybe some kind of buddy-system or maybe we can get one of the mages to cast some kind of spells to prohibit us from attacking each other. I'll see about organizing a student meeting to discuss."