Banks hire armed guards all the time, many banks also have paid bank staff that secretly carry firearms to protect the bank & cash if someone robs the place. Shouldn't we treat kids, a more valuable asset in a similar way?
You want to give teachers "tools" to deal with psychos with guns, how about just take the guns out of the equation?
Its only the US culture and believe system that thinks its ridiculous. The rest of the modern world understands the logic. Just change the mindset through change. Change starts from a tipping point. This is a huge tipping point..You do understand that with 300 some odd million guns in circulation, and with at least half the population unwilling to give them up, you will NEVER take guns out of the equation right? It's ridiculous to even suggest that it's possible. Just stop. Move on to the next point of action.
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Its only the US culture and believe system that thinks its ridiculous. The rest of the modern world understands the logic. Just change the mindset through change. Change starts from a tipping point. This is a huge tipping point..
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I'm a teacher in an intercity school and the kids are armed better then anyone. Thats why this crap never happens in intercity schools.
I never see an armed guard in a bank , except the armored trucks that stop by a couple times/wk. Most robbers know this (except the bangers and their takeovers), banks are soft targets. The flip side is the robbery is investigated by FBI in lieu of over burdened local Police.
Bank policy is typically, comply with all demands. One person hurt carries a lawsuit greater than all the cash in any bank branch, typically way less than $1M. Really, typically less than a few hundred thousand.
No one is protecting that cash as a business decision.
Because you can't. Criminals do not follow the law. Why is that so hard for people to understand?
You do understand that with 300 some odd million guns in circulation, and with at least half the population unwilling to give them up, you will NEVER take guns out of the equation right? It's ridiculous to even suggest that it's possible. Just stop. Move on to the next point of action.
A qualified armed guard or two per school isn't a terrible idea.
To those saying put guards in teh schools - are you prepared to pay extra taxes to fund this?
According to the following link
Number of educational institutions, by level and control of institution: Selected years, 1980-81 through 2007-08
there are approx 132,000 schools in the USA. Say you put two armed guards in each - that's 264,000 guards. Say you can get them cheap for a salary of just $30,000 a year. That's still $7,920,000,000. I understand that most armed guards expect to be paid more.
It would come out of state budgets, and most states are in trouble financially, thanks to mismanagement locally.
And there's no saying whether the guards would be that effective - that Lanza character managed to kill 26 people in three minutes. The time period is too short to react effectively.
Are you really volunteering to raise taxes to pay for it, in the middle of a fiscal crunch?
The cheap option is either a) ban semi-automatics and automatics or b) raise the taxes on ammunition. Given that the majority don't own guns and don't buy ammunition, the costs won't fall on them at all.
It's a terrible idea.
"Wah blah wah Stop big government, tax is theft, government is inefficient blah blah"
Later that day..........
"We need to spend $500 million+(?) tax payers money hiring, training and equipping government employees to guard schools"
Jesus you're thick. Do you have any concept of how much it's going to cost to enforce any form of gun controls? Canada tried a gun registry a few years ago. Pissed through more than 2 billion dollars before they gave up. The US with 10 times as many people and a whole hell of a lot more guns? Yeah good luck with that. Putting armed guards in schools would be a whole lot cheaper.
I hope you're being sarcastic.Yes, that will solve all the problems.![]()