I worked for a suburban school system for a while last year. My duties required me to enter school buildings. Before I got my ID I had to be buzzed into the buildings. I know they had cameras but I suspect that I could have gotten a gun into the buildings if I wanted to.
Through the company I work for, I was invited to speak to some students at a high school. It was the day after Sandy Hook.
I waltzed right in and wandered the halls looking for the room. No locked doors, no one challenged me, nothing.
Two weekends ago, I spent some time with a School resource Officer as he was doing an off-duty in uniform traffic job.
He’s a deputy in a large rural county of about 200,000. He has been lobbying to get a lockbox and a rifle in the school and they won’t allow it.
I told him, “That’s nothing. In Maryland, several districts don’t allow their school police officers to even carry sidearms.”
For real. These morons make the police be unarmed so it doesn’t scare the children.