Why aren’t we arming the people who watch over our kids?
I can hear the calls for more gun control even now, it’s so very predictable. But perhaps, there’s a more practical answer.
Here’s the scenario - enraged student who found things not going his way, somehow procures a gun or two, and decides he’s going to take out his frustrations on his school mates and teachers. Back in April, it was Virginia Tech. In today’s case, it’s at a high school in Ohio.
CLEVELAND (AP) - A 14-year-old suspended student, dressed in black, opened fire in his downtown high school Wednesday, wounding four people as terrified schoolmates hid in closets and bathrooms and huddled under laboratory desks. He then killed himself.
A fellow student at SuccessTech Academy alternative school said the shooter, who was suspended for fighting two days earlier, had made threats in front of students and teachers last week.
“He’s crazy. He threatened to blow up our school. He threatened to stab everybody,” Doneisha LeVert said. “We didn’t think nothing of it.”
Police Chief Michael McGrath said it appeared that the shooter used two weapons, but added that the coroner’s office will need to finish its work to confirm that. Parents were angry that firearms got into a school equipped with metal detectors.
Some thoughts on this event:
- How is a metal detector going to stop someone intent on committing random shootings? The kid knows there’s a metal detector. All he has to do is pull out his gun and threaten or shoot the probably unarmed attendant to get past that detector. Really, a detector doesn’t stop anything. It’s simply an alarm. You need someone monitoring it with the capability of handling an armed assailant to do any good.
- With all the attacks on schools, a definitely “soft” target for any madman or terrorist intent on striking fear into a community, why in the world are we not placing armed guards in these schools?
- Along those same lines, why aren’t we allowing teachers and administrators, who have some proscribed level of training, to arm themselves? We do it on commercial aircraft with pilots, why can’t we do it in our schools to protect our kids?
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