Ohio school board to prevent school shootings by arming their Janitors with fire arms

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sperrico87 said:

NobleTeam360 said:
Why give the janitors guns? Give them to the teachers or put police officers in their. It doesn't have to be armed to the teeth just a few officers.

Police only get there after the crime has been committed.  Their job is to draw a chalk outline around the bodies.  They'll run toward the sound of the gunfire...after the guns already been fired.  Unless you're going to have an armed guard in every single room of the school, at all times, your plan doesn't work.  Even then, it's no guarantee at all that a shooting could always be prevented.  All it would take is the officer to turn their back to the criminal, or have their attention diverted, and they themselves could be shot without any warning.  So it's just not a very realistic or well-thought out plan.

 

 

That is true. Columbine, after all, actually had an armed policeman stationed on the premises. He was just away from the school when the shooting happened. Virginia Tech, like most colleges, had its own police force. Neither were able to prevent their shootings simply because they can only be in so many places at once. I don't know about "having an armed guard at every door" but both certainly would have required an increased police presense for it to have been effective in these situations, going by what I've read about them.

That being said, having armed police officers at a school isn't a bad idea. It just isn't flawless. The policeman stationed at Columbine actually says that a combination of an assault weapons ban and more armed guards on school grounds would both help reduce these sorts of shootings:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/columbine-armed-guards-schools-students-safe-article-1.1225796

As far as I'm concerned, that's kind of solution is the only serious one there is.