I think calling for armed guards in all schools is an overreaction out of panic that will bite us in the end. After all, there are some 100,000 plus schools in America and these mass shootings amount to a tiny fraction of a percent.
I checked today and found that there are 13 different school districts in my county with multiple buildings, 6 Catholic schools, 3 Christian non Catholic schools, 3 charter schools, and 3 private schools. Not 1 has ever had a shooting of any kind.
Better to go state by state to change laws and allow school staff to be armed if they so choose. My thinking is that I would rather keep a potential threat guessing than putting one person out there that they can spot.
Another concern is the volunteers. It won’t take long for the left to figure out that a ringer firing a couple of shots into a school ceiling will be great PR for them. The ringer will get a slap on the wrist and the media will do weeks of show blaming the NRA for unleashing these crazies in our schools.
If you leave it up to the individual staff of schools you will end up with some schools unprotected but no one will know which are and aren’t.
In the case of the Middle School, there are five wings with 2,200 students. The High School has 1,500 students. I’m not saying that all schools should have armed guards, nor do I think they all need them, but having a presence is a positive thing. The retirees employed by our local district are former police officers with decades of experience, mostly in NYC. One thing that should certainly be banned are those “GUN FREE SCHOOL ZONE” signs. Whoever thought that was a good idea is clueless.