Quote Originally Posted by coloccw View Post
Leave that job to the city LE & SRO program.
Yeah cause that is working great.

Quote Originally Posted by Clint45 View Post
Fortunately incidents like these are relatively rare. Maybe two or three a year, usually over very quickly, randomly scattered across the country.

Armed private security at a public school will not be a popular idea.
Wow what country do you live in? And 1 a year is to much. And they are over very quickly that is why I want to do this, I might not be able to stop all deaths but it would not get up to 26. Who knows I might not be able to stop it at all but I will sure try.

Quote Originally Posted by dwalker460 View Post
It should be a requirement for all teacher applicants that they possess not only a quality and approved firearm, but also receive training and carry specific certifications BEFORE they even apply for a teaching position. Once hired, they are required to test out every year they are employeed as a teacher or substitute teachers.

They should also be required to have passed several courses in actual crisis management, restraining out of control individuals, etc. along the exact same lines as those who work with the mentally ill or with "troubled" youth.

And they would need to pay for this training themselves, prior to even being considered for employeement.
I completely agree with this but it will never happen. This is pretty much what I said in the other post.

Quote Originally Posted by JoeT View Post
I don't want armed guards at my kids school...we are not a 3rd world country that needs military presence in every public location

The easy answer is to allow CCW's to CCW in school. Just one teacher with a permit could have stopped the carnage.
Maybe if he was not shot and killed first. I think all teachers should carry and have to train at least every six months.

Quote Originally Posted by cofi View Post
i would rather our teachers be allowed to ccw then see armed guards/LEO at schools
Why would you not want to know that there is a well trained guard who's only job is to watch out for this situation and to be able to take care of it. What comfort do you have now? What if this would have been your kids school that this happened to? It is people like you who I do not understand and will probably be the reason I will not be able to do this. I am going to fight for this and go as high up as I need to go as I feel it is necessary. I know this is not a 3rd world country but you are wrong if you think we do not need armed guards/staff/police on site. Nothing has worked so far and this is getting worse. When I was a kid they had metal detectors and police at my school, and guess what there were no shootings after that. I guess my point is I do not care about what the parents think about having armed guards at schools, my only concern is keeping this from happening again. I am going to home school my kids until there is a safer environment in the public schooling program.

Quote Originally Posted by Mtn.man View Post
An armed teacher would 1 do their job as a teacher.
2 then a secondary aspect would be to protect the children and act in the way they were tught and with mandatory timed training would probably do a great job.
A placed leo or armed guard would 1 cause distraction, 2 be wrapped up in government BS, 3 want more pay etc etc etc, and would probably cause more problems than good.
Why do you think this? I believe it would help more than anything. I am talking about having a well trained guard sit in a unmarked car outside of the school maybe in uniform maybe not, it depends on the situation I guess. As far as wanting more pay I am willing to take a pay cut to do this, and anyone who works for me that wont I will can.