“Steny Hoyer: Arming Teachers, ‘Turning the Schools into Armed Fortresses’ Won’t Make Them Safer”
YES IT WILL (arming teachers that is). For the VERY RARE circumstance of a school attack.
It is the ONLY thing that has a chance of working.
When seconds count, the police are only MINUTES away. And then they “organize” for an hour (or MORE) before they do ANYTHING!
Meanwhile, the injured succumb to their injuries (slowly bleeding to death, scared to death, in some cases in excruciating pain while authorities “organize” and PREVENT others (like parents) who are willing to risk death to save their children.
An armed intruder is a surprise event. No time to wait for the coward police to do nothing.
THERE IS NO TIME! Your defense has to be faster and equally as lethal as the shooter.
BTW, A gun, locked in a teacher’s desk, and/or with a trigger lock, and ammunition locked up elsewhere shows the ridiculousness of “SAFE” gun procedures.
The gun must be holstered ON the teacher, READY for immediate use.
Armed security won’t work. ONE fat, old, retired “police officer” chatting up teachers in the teacher’s lounge, isn’t the answer.
AS MANY AS POSSIBLE teachers/faculty members MUST BE armed.
An armed teacher (OF COURSE WITH TRAINING) in EVERY classroom, would be my goal.
MORE GUNS, not less guns.
So you solution is to leave the responsibility with haphazardly trained amateurs rather than trained professionals?