Saw Mark Fuhrman on a show last night, he made a point that our children are the most precious thing there is, but are protected the least in this society, said why not make school security a kind of
specialty, instead of an afterthought. And like you touched on, SJW kookism has trickled in to infect the high school level like it has the colleges - eliminating junk like that out of the budget and diverting to security needs would be a sensible course of action. But that would tantamount to blasphemy to the educrats.
They’ll argue about guns til the end of time, because we aren’t giving up on 2d amendment and they aren’t giving up on being communist dictators.
But hardening security will make a difference no matter who is arguing what.