Frankly, I’d answer no and select the alternative arming of school staff, which wasn’t an option, if I had the choice.
If we consider the per person cost broken down across 600 parents at the Newtown school, for instance, the fee would be rather minimal if training and arming only five teachers was the outcome, and they were simply paid a monthly stipend for become part of a on site security team.
I’m not convinced these staff would demand increased pay. They might do it out of sense of devotion to the children as long as their certification/equipment costs were covered.
There are very low impact resolutions to this problem if people truly look for them with a reasoned mind.
Don’t expect this to emanate from Washington. (I’m sure you don’t...)
All I know is that into the 80s we high school kids were allowed to bring guns to school for hunting after and there were no school shootings at my school.
There were a few common sense rules that were followed but it all seemed fine. If we drove the gun had to stay locked in our vehicle. Guns weren’t allowed on the bus so a parent had to take us and the gun went to the principal’s office for the day.
I remember standing in the principal’s office while he was gawking at a big ole .44 revolver a well to do friend brought to school but didn’t want to leave in his truck.
“If we consider the per person cost broken down across 600 parents at the Newtown school, for instance, the fee would be rather minimal if training and arming only five teachers was the outcome, and they were simply paid a monthly stipend for become part of a on site security team.
I’m not convinced these staff would demand increased pay. They might do it out of sense of devotion to the children as long as their certification/equipment costs were covered.”
Frankly, I doubt you would have found ANYone teaching at Sandy Hook Elementary who would have signed on. If you had found but one, that would be a surprise to me.
Arming school staff might sound like a good idea in some places — like rural Texas — but it simply won’t be acceptable to the vast majority of people (and teachers) in the blue states. Aside: those same districts might support an in-school security officer (as distinguished from regular member of the teaching staff or supervisors).
It goes completely against their mindset regarding firearms, and I doubt you could persuade them to change...