NRA calls for armed police officer in every school

The most practical and fiscally responsible solution is to arm the teachers and/ or other school personnel. Having full- time police or security officers assigned to high schools might make sense because there is plenty of other stuff for them to be doing during the school day in order to keep the peace. Having a full- time person whose only responsibility is to protect an elementary school from the one- in- a- million chance that a lunatic might show up would be a waste of resources. Allowing other personnel who have other primary duties to also be armed is actually a pretty efficient solution. I think it should look like this:

1. Allow school personnell who volunteer to do so the right to bring personally own firearms to campus. They will form the school’s “Rapid Response Team.” The key word is that they must be volunteers. Some idiot legistator in VA has apparently proposed a bill requiring teachers to be armed. That’s just stupid. People need to reflect on the responsibility of protecting the kids and choose to do it for themselves.

2. Have the members of the “Rapid Response Team” apply for concealed carry permits in the states where permits are allowed. This will get them an extra criminal background check and require them to have a basic understanding of firearms and the laws governing their use in their state. The school district could reimburse the volunteers after the course was completed for the cost of the license fees.

3. Have them complete 40 hours of training with local law enforcement that covers the use of their firearms, basic building search and response to active shooters techniques, some minimum combat first aid skills, etc. You’re not going to turn them into a SWAT team, but you want to give them some training that might help them survive. (What is cover vs. concealment, for example.)

4. Install a locker in these teachers’ classrooms for them to secure their firearms in each morning when they arrive for the day. Give them each a bullet proof vest with a carrier in some bright Day- glo color that will identify them to each other as well as responding law enforcement officers that they keep in the locker along with First Aid supplies.

5. Have them qualify with their weapons twice a year. Make the qualification course harder than the so- easy- a- blind- person- can- pass- it courses that are used to qualify for a CCDW permit.

Time after time with these mass shootings we see that the suspect either surrenders or kills himself almost immediately after he is confronted by an armed defender. The sooner that someone is able to engage one of these lunatics, the sooner the killing stops.

Dukeboy01 on December 21, 2012 at 2:30 PM