It is a matter of setting priority.
Are the children worth the costs of protection?
Until the lunatics/criminals are locked up to prevent further massacre, we need to protect the kids.
At any level, by any reasonable means - locally, at state level or at the fed level.
Locally implemented procedures are good, but the teacher’s unions are idiot gun control freaks - not much chance for armed protection.
States are broke, but if parents want protection for their kids, they will have to help with the expenses for guards/police;
Obozo’s idiotic (and hypocritical) idea on protection is to have ‘gun free zone’ for schools, and, to take away all guns from law-abiding citizens to render them defenseless. So forget about obozo!
Anyway, even their own Dem president Clinton believes in armed protection for our kids! What is the hold-up?
The way I look at it -
we have to counter their argument. We can’t just let them scream gun ban to render all of us defenseless!
They want to ban guns from good men,
we want to protect the kids with good men with guns!
With such high unemployment, I think we can easily recruit retired policemen or security guards to be the trained first responders at schools.
It is useless to present them with statistics and data to suggest where the protection is mostly need.
1 innocent child murdered is 1 too many. Parents and people in their community will have to take up the issue and act.
Perhaps different communities will tackle it differently - e.g. some ban guns entirely and some provide armed protection at schools.
We will see whose method works best!
Keep obozo out of this!
A suggestion:
The overriding priority in protecting the building occupants is to implement commonly known security methodology. With correctly applied security, the community policies on guns or eccentic people will negligibly impsct school safety.
Security principles are uncompromising. Their execution can never be permitted as a bargaining chip for any employees union involved in the operation of the site.
A site free of prohibited weapons can be established without making it accessible to unsecure persons, but the safe zone starts at the point of entry/exit. Whatever the situation outside the door is irrelevant. It is the control of the entrance and from that the building contents that matters.
The current paradigm of today's typical school operation must change to make the school safe for children.
Please wake up to this, and expect to leave the current school operational mode behind, as well as any ungovernable students. Or teachers.