Do you support having armed guards in schools?

Most gun crimes in UK are actually done in the countryside, where there is a greater concentration of guns. Having guns in the area increases likelihood of gun crimes occurring.

Most schools are safe from idiots and their guns because they have no intention of shooting schools, you must remember. Armed security guards won't stop a kid sneaking a pistol in his pocket. What happens if someone shoots the guard and then uses his gun?

Where does it end? how many different places do you need to put guns outside until you feel safe?

Also, the expense.

I'm in a suburb north of atlanta. In this county, all middle and high schools have a "resource officer" which is basically an armed cop. They have one at the middle school and I don't know how many at the high school. I would assume more since it is two to three times the size of the middle school.

The school where the shooting was is inner city and actually has metal detectors. I guess those weren't utilized properly. There is a lot of fuss about the fact that the gun got in the school. Personally, I wouldn't go in that area after dark and wouldn't wander from a populated area during daylight.

lp

btw, all of the ones I've met are fit personal that seem qualified to protect.

-7/25/12 http://articles.nydailynews.com/2012-07-%E2%80%A6 1950 all but one mass-murders in the U. S. where more than three people died were committed in gun-free zones. The Gun-Free Schools Zone Act was passed in 1990.

If armed guards are allowed to protect Obama's kids at school (and they do) why not our kids too?

Nope because it's yet another one of those absurd Right wing fantasies that cant possibly work in real life

There are about 100,000 schools in America

In order to actually make them secure you need a student to guard ratio of about 30:1 and a guard response time of less than 30 seconds

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It's not enough to secure the inside of the schools you also have to be able to secure the outside w/ chain link fences topped by concertina wire and have extremely limited ways of getting onto the property and require all who enter the property to pass thru TSA type security checkpoints

Not only is that obscenely expensive to turn a school into prison But it's also highly unlikely that you would be able to find enough people who can meet the double requirements of being able to work around children and teens AND being combat qualified w/ handguns

Hey Artemis: why should gun owners bare the cost of protecting children in schools.

Isn't providing a safe school and an education for our children everyone's responsibility?

That's like saying home owners who don't have kids shouldn't have to pay school taxes.

Yes. Here's an article about it.

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/world/55742445-68/sho...

Any protection beats having none. I would bet the parents at Sandy Hook wishes they had had an armed guard there.

I say, give people a choice. Some children will be protected, at least given a chance, and some children will have no chance. Let's see how things pan out and let the next set of parents decide.

We had an armed member of law enforcement posted with us back when I was in high school.

Somehow, it didn't result in anyone getting raped or exploding or whatever it is people seem to think will happen if more schools have armed guards.

Yes.

The schools I went to had an armed police liaison officer on the ground at all times. Nothing bad ever happened.