Why was there no armed security at Robb Elementary School? HotAir

With all of that in mind, we should be revisiting the question of why the school had no armed security near the building s entrances. Removing police from schools has been a growing fetish among liberals for the past several years and they ve achieved a frightening amount of success. Last year alone, 33 more school systems in states including Virginia and California eliminated their school resource officer or school safety officer programs. They are being replaced by unarmed restorative justice coordinators in civilian clothing.

As Texas recovers from this tragedy, perhaps we need to be considering a different question. The killer at Robb Elementary School walked straight into the building carrying not one, but two long rifles. He could not possibly have concealed them in his clothing. Does anyone honestly believe that he would have made it inside if there had been an obviously armed, uniformed law enforcement officer, likely wearing some sort of body armor, standing outside the door? Do you think that little coward would have even tried?

I could understand how something like this might happen in Baltimore or San Francisco, where liberal officials have been fighting to defund the police and keep them off of school campuses. But this is Texas we re talking about. People are supposed to be more sensible there. It seems like this should be a fairly easy and obvious choice. You can spend a huge amount of time debating new gun control laws in Washington that probably won t pass and wouldn t stop this type of shooting if they did. Or you can step up to the plate and put armed security officers at the doors of all the schools. I m not a psychic, but I will predict that the number of mass shootings in schools will plummet if you do that.

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The security at my son’s Catholic high school is quite strict. You can’t even get on campus while school is in session without being buzzed in. I believe they also have some armed security guards. It’s too bad that it’s seen as necessary, but better that than what happened in Texas. Of course, we could just bin the Second Amendment, but then we’d be at the mercy of our political class and I doubt that would work out well.