One of the issues the anti gun people are screaming about is the cost of putting armed personnel in the schools.
I've got two suggestions that would cost absolutely nothing to the school systems across the country.
#1. There are thousands of retired police officers, security guards, and military personnel as well as civilians with CCW permits that are perfectly qualified to guard our kids at school. Many of these folks are looking for ways to volunteer their time for great causes. None could be better than this. Many of these folks are already volunteering many hours per week in places like the VA, hospitals, the Red Cross, etc. We (or the NRA) could train these people specifically for school security and schedule each of them for a few days a week and there would be more than enough of these people available that several could be on duty at the same time in order to secure the entire school campus adequately. And the reality is there would be thousands of these folks that would love to volunteer for this purpose.
My gosh...we already have un-paid volunteers doing work for the school systems such crossing guards for example; so why not for armed security as well.
I'm sure however there would be those that think you need to be a Navy Seal, Special Forces, or a member of a swat team to guard kids at school; but that's a bunch of non-sense.
Many of these school personnel are so up in arms about having armed personnel on the premisis that it's like they have images of swat teams roaming the halls. They need to be educated that a school could be heavilly secured with armed personnel and neither the kids or the staff would even realize there are guns on the premisis.
#2. How about the thousands of National Guard or military personnel that are on our country's payroll and many of them doing absolutely nothing. Put them to work in plain clothes guarding schools.
Those that are so paranoid about having armed personnel around their kids should go talk to the parents of the 20 kids that were lost last week. I doubt you could find one parent that would say they would have been appalled at the thought that a "good guy with a gun" would be in the shcool building on that day.
I've got two suggestions that would cost absolutely nothing to the school systems across the country.
#1. There are thousands of retired police officers, security guards, and military personnel as well as civilians with CCW permits that are perfectly qualified to guard our kids at school. Many of these folks are looking for ways to volunteer their time for great causes. None could be better than this. Many of these folks are already volunteering many hours per week in places like the VA, hospitals, the Red Cross, etc. We (or the NRA) could train these people specifically for school security and schedule each of them for a few days a week and there would be more than enough of these people available that several could be on duty at the same time in order to secure the entire school campus adequately. And the reality is there would be thousands of these folks that would love to volunteer for this purpose.
My gosh...we already have un-paid volunteers doing work for the school systems such crossing guards for example; so why not for armed security as well.
I'm sure however there would be those that think you need to be a Navy Seal, Special Forces, or a member of a swat team to guard kids at school; but that's a bunch of non-sense.
Many of these school personnel are so up in arms about having armed personnel on the premisis that it's like they have images of swat teams roaming the halls. They need to be educated that a school could be heavilly secured with armed personnel and neither the kids or the staff would even realize there are guns on the premisis.
#2. How about the thousands of National Guard or military personnel that are on our country's payroll and many of them doing absolutely nothing. Put them to work in plain clothes guarding schools.
Those that are so paranoid about having armed personnel around their kids should go talk to the parents of the 20 kids that were lost last week. I doubt you could find one parent that would say they would have been appalled at the thought that a "good guy with a gun" would be in the shcool building on that day.