Q: Does Safe and Sound take a position on gun control?A: We do not. We choose to focus on keeping children safe in schools by empowering school communities to improve their safety and security practices, plans, and measures. We believe this is the most effective way to keep schools safe in the face of the many possible dangers and threats they may face. We believe this is the most direct and productive way to affect change now.
Q: Does Safe and Sound have a position on security guards and/or police officers in schools?
A: We advocate for highly specific preparations, plans, and measures tailored to the safety and security needs of each school building and community. Security guards and police officers are one possible measure schools can put in place to improve safety. At Safe and Sound, we advocate for multiple layers of protection in order to best secure the safety of your school community.
Further, a thoughtful, professional security assessment within one community may warrant the employment of security guards or police officers while it may not be warranted or practical in another community. This decision belongs to each individual school community and will depend on the needs, budget, and desires of that community.
At least one of the proposals linked at its site involves a gun safe at school, however there would be only one rifle and the safes would be accessible by fingerprint recognition, and only the school's resource officer would have access to the rifle.
Yes, in addition to the other obvious flaws, I’m asking “what if the school’s resource officer is on leave, late for work, at a dental appointment, or (ahem) dead?”