Need more funding for schools to put in metal detectors and armed guards.
Don't know if that would've helped a one-room schoolhouse in Amish country. Other than that, I agree. Problems with that, coming from someone who's worked three security jobs now.
-Everyone says they want good security, nobody really does. Good security is a pain in the butt.
-Most people want to pay security guards eight bucks an hour, if that. You don't tend to get or keep people you'd want to trust your life to for minimum wage +2.
-If you pay your guards better, that means more costs. Then there's equipping them. You can have them provide their own gear, but then, how do you determine that they're competent with it?
Personally, I think large public schools would do better to spend money on two armed, halfway competent guards to be on duty during school hours than spending it on athletic equipment for half a dozen team sports.
(At least, in my old high school, the football team had new gear while our textbooks were the better part of a decade out of date.)
And then, of course, you run into the problem of foolish people not being comfortable with armed guards at school. "It's not safe!" they exclaim.
*sigh* No, they'd much rather have congress pass a law. It won't do anything, but it'll make somebody feel good. And that's what's really important, right?
