I'm not with arming teachers, but I can see deterrent for school shooters if they know there's a couple national guard / army reserve cats on campus with m-16's. I saw they did this in El Salvador and it made me
I think this is a more probable solution than taking guns away.....
I just don't see Americans giving that shyt up....
Nah, an extensive body of evidence and experience has shown that all hardening targets does is shift targets, at best. Say you put those two guys with M-16s on campus (remember, there's 135,000 schools in America, so you're already talking about 270,000 armed guards). Then some shooters would go anyway cause they're crazy.
But the ones who are rational enough to think through it? They would just shift to a softer target instead. They would shoot up one of the school buses in route. Or the soccer game, or the swim meet. They'd shoot up the park where students were having a picnic. The field trip. They'd shoot up the evening PTA event or parent-teacher conferences after the guards have gone home.
You can't sufficiently "harden" every moment of every day in the life of your city. You can't even come close. And making it clear that that's what you're trying to do only ups the predisposition to violence, the allure of guns, the idea that it's a war. Look at anywhere overcome by violence where the USA has an occupied military presence, and ask...do the people feel safer with that hardened base there, or does it only tend to lead to even more violence anywhere the violent can reach?
We're not going to ban guns, but we could do a TON more to control who has access to guns, reduce the supply of illegal guns, and change how people think about guns.
good luck.
