Donald Trump wants to arm teachers with guns

[KevinM1]

He could just as easily have used a truck filled with fertilizer or pressure cookers filled with nails. But, oh well, black scary looking guns are scary and should be banned because they are scary looking and then once they are banned we can pretend that our lefty policies and libertine attitudes are not causing the break-down of families and subverting local social capital.

Just as easily? Seriously, Neo?

You know what else subverts local social capital? Students and teachers being murdered.

There's significantly more risk to a would-be attacker attempting to create a bomb than using a firearm.  That's why we have a rash of mass shootings rather than mass bombings.  Attackers might be willing to die, but in most cases it's only after they hit their targets.

Firearms shouldn't be banned because they're scary looking.  They should be controlled because they're ranged weapons of incredible breadth and power.  Weapons that, as we've seen, can kill and injure scores of people in mere moments.  And, unlike vehicles, fertilizer, pressure cookers, and every other failed analogy, are designed to do so.

Guards are security theater, nothing more.  And, indeed, likely wouldn't have helped in this case.  Cruz knew how the school worked.  How and when people went to class, what doors were locked or unlocked.  Even if the door was locked, he could've simply waited for the end of the day, when kids were exiting the school.  It's unlikely that a guard would be able to stop the killing that happened.

Moreover, extra guards are useless if:

They're taken out first, especially if it's before they can raise an alarm
There's inside help (another kid/kids unlocking doors or windows, or pulling fire alarms)
The guards aren't well trained, or, simply, not brave (see: what actually happened in Florida)

And since Wooters is so anxious about the liability issues, these guards would have to be restrained from essentially becoming the disciplinary arm of the school itself.  I'm also imagining a friendly fire scenario where the guard(s) shoot the wrong kid(s).

It's, frankly, a dumb idea that will simply cost more money and not actually improve security.