re: #179 Amory Blaine

FOX news was talking about staffing schools with armed guards. Teachers are too expensive, but armed guards seem like a good solution to these assholes.

Pointless and perhaps even dangerous to have a minimum wage barely trained armed rent-a-cop at the school. The shooter will always have the advantage of surprise, the only thing that would happen is that the guard would end up being the first one shot.

Not like he can be on hair trigger alert all day with one hand on his gun and his holster strap off ready for a quick draw.

All Pinellas County schools have at least one police officer stationed there during school hours, the large high schools have two or three. Again it might be easy for someone to get the drop on the police officer but in a large school you can’t be sure where he is at any time. Plus at least the officer has adequate training for a shooting event if it comes to it.