14 minutes, I guess that's not too bad, and they stopped the threat. Here's how I think about it. There are 9330 public schools in Texas. We can pay to have trained personnel at every school, some schools would need one, some would need 2, maybe 3. Most small schools would need one. On average, let's say there are double the amount trained personnel than schools, so 18,660 trained officers. Pay them about 65,000 a year, would be $1.2 Billion in funds. Provide them a quality AR-15 and optic, about $1500 each, and gear, of about another $500 or so. That's about $37 Million. Total, that's about $1.25 Billion for Texas to pay to have multiple armed and trained personnel on site at every Texas public school. You could cut down the response time and have a show of force already there. It turns a soft target location into hard target location and should decrease the attempts of school shootings. Why can't we push for something like this!!??

I'm all in favor of allowing teachers to be armed, but realize that many won't do it. Even the teachers who are willing to keep a firearm in their desk likely won't be doing a lot of training and, as Mike Tyson supposedly once said, "Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth".
I was in the Army, including a year in Vietnam. A lot of guys, including me, thought they'd be pretty tough when the shooting started. Then the shooting started. When the bullets start flying a lot of people react defensively. Believing that every teacher with a gun will suddenly become a Danger Ranger is not realistic. I think the best strategy for a teacher would be to stuff a kid's sneaker under the door to make it hard to open, then put the kids in one corner with the teacher in another location ready to shoot through the door if a bad guy tries to enter. Expecting teachers to leave their classroom and hunt down an active shooter is asking a lot.

School districts are idiots. There are a plethora of qualified veterans and retirees that can volunteer and man a post on just about every school campus across the country.

I don't want some random geriatric Rambo wannabe trading his perch at the local gun shop for a role defending school kids. I don't think this is a role suited to volunteers.

14 minutes was not a bad response time, given that the police were not parked out front of the school. Even running lights and sirens, doesn't give them immunity from driving responsibly. How far away were there when the call came in? These guys did a damned good job...period.

I agree. A lot of gun toting idiots

I agree. A lot of gun toting idiots


Yep.

I’ve said it before: The Uvalde problem was chickenshit cops. Remember the live pics on TV of the cops in the hall backing away when they heard shots? Those shots were children being slaughtered. No $, no program, is going to overcome that. The cops didn’t have a dog in the fight. Trained parents would.

I agree. A lot of gun toting idiots

I’ve said it before: The Uvalde problem was chickenshit cops. Remember the live pics on TV of the cops in the hall backing away when they heard shots? Those shots were children being slaughtered. No $, no program, is going to overcome that. The cops didn’t have a dog in the fight. Trained parents would.

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I would switch schools if my child’s school did that.

Slanted news story from ABC / Yahoo but does have good points. Some impressive gun collections to in Harker Heights, TX.

Why semi-automatic rifles like those used in the Nashville shooting can cause so much damage

Kids are getting their "training" from video games. Games today are very realistic and have basic and advanced tactics built into them. Not hard to figure out Hell, LE use video training to some degree as well. JMO of course.