Who's going to pay for these armed guards? Where are they going to come from? What training will they receive? How thoroughly vetted will they be? Will these guards have it in them to shoot children?
My nightmare scenario is that conservatives - like always - try to do it on the cheap, and we wind up with some person who shouldn't be a guard shooting up the school they're supposed to protect. Or, some school is protected by a glorified mall cop who gets stripped of their weapon.
I also find it sad and funny that conservatives are willing to pay for armed guards for every school in America, but don't want to increase funding for education itself. "The music program is still cut, and the teachers are still paying for school supplies, but there's now a fat slob going through a divorce standing in the hallway with an AR-15. God bless America."
My nightmare scenario is that conservatives - like always - try to do it on the cheap, and we wind up with some person who shouldn't be a guard shooting up the school they're supposed to protect. Or, some school is protected by a glorified mall cop who gets stripped of their weapon.
I also find it sad and funny that conservatives are willing to pay for armed guards for every school in America, but don't want to increase funding for education itself. "The music program is still cut, and the teachers are still paying for school supplies, but there's now a fat slob going through a divorce standing in the hallway with an AR-15. God bless America."
