BigJim wrote:
The best way to protect students is more armed defenders. If volunteer teachers were trained and armed a potential shooter would think twice before attacking a school, and could be quickly neutralized. Remember the church shooting where three in the congregation had guns, and one of them dropped the shooter.
We currently have armed police in many schools. An armed trained teacher should be at least as responsible.
It would probably be easier to put armed trained teachers in the schools than to get prayers back in the schools. We took guns to school fequently when I was in high school. Granted I was from a small town and we were held aaccountable for any miss deeds. There was never any thought of shooting a fellow student or a teacher (we did turn one teachers Volkswagon sideways in her garage). I still say it is a lack of morallity and accountability that is our problem today.