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Texas school district where 10 died in shooting accepts donations of guns

JacksinPA said:
Adding more guns to a chaotic school environment in the midst of a lockdown is only asking for more people to be injured or killed. Teachers & custodians don't go into their lines of work to become law enforcement officers at a moment's notice. It doesn't work. And when the cops arrive how will they tell the perpetrators from the others brandishing weapons? More will die.
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Josie said:
Dude -- the officers will have the guns, not the teachers. Did you not even read your own link?
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Jack? Do you have a problem with armed officers protecting students at schools?
 
JacksinPA said:
Adding more guns to a chaotic school environment in the midst of a lockdown is only asking for more people to be injured or killed. Teachers & custodians don't go into their lines of work to become law enforcement officers at a moment's notice. It doesn't work. And when the cops arrive how will they tell the perpetrators from the others brandishing weapons? More will die.
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They don't go into those lines of work to be human shields, either. But, that's exactly what you want them to do.
 
JacksinPA said:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/01/texas-school-district-santa-fe-guns

Trustees in Santa Fe vote to receive gifts including $20,000 worth of rifles, ammunition, optical sights and weapons training courses

The Texas school district where 10 people were killed in a mass shooting in May has accepted donations of weapons and safety equipment before the new term, including eight AR-15 rifles.

Trustees of the Santa Fe independent school district (ISD) voted to receive tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of gifts on Monday night, including the anonymous local donation of $20,000 worth of rifles, ammunition, optical sights and weapons training courses for full-time officers in the district’s police department.
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America - the land of the free & the home of the gun crazies. On another forum a recent transplant to Texas described its citizens as 'bats**t crazy'. Now I see what he was talking about.
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Err...the bolded is rather important, no?
 
Grand Mal said:
Get better people. Recent experience shows those armed guards wait outside until the shots stop. Hell, that one shooter just dropped his gun and went to WalMart for a soda, got arrested somewhere down the road.
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Within in the same timeframe, a cop stopped an active shooter by shooting him. Besides, what solutions do you suggest instead.
 
JacksinPA said:
Adding more guns to a chaotic school environment in the midst of a lockdown is only asking for more people to be injured or killed. Teachers & custodians don't go into their lines of work to become law enforcement officers at a moment's notice. It doesn't work. And when the cops arrive how will they tell the perpetrators from the others brandishing weapons? More will die.
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...donation of $20,000 worth of rifles, ammunition, optical sights and weapons training courses >>> for full-time officers in the district’s police department<<<
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Note this clip from the article -- WHICH YOU POSTED!
 
ttwtt78640 said:
Hmm... your OP link seemed to indicate that trained police officers would be the ones in charge of added school security.



That seems like a lot of dedicated police officers for 4 schools with 5K students.
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I absolutely agree.

It's a topic for another thread, but I've long questioned the concept of having a 'school police department' rather than using officers from a local police department, giving them additional training, and integrating them with the school.
 
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