Clearly, LE failed at every level in this incident. And having armed adults on site is similarly useless unless they have compelling motivation to neutralize the threat.
There is also serious doubt that even armed teachers would have the requisite temperament and motivation to “run to the sound of the guns” when the time comes. If LE won’t respond without overwhelming superiority, why would anyone expect an English teacher to do better?
For all the prattle about “community involvement” and security costs it seems obvious to me if ANYONE were putting the safety of the students first they would be suggesting REAL community involvement by training armed parents to volunteer their off time to provide security.
NO ONE is going to have higher motivation to neutralize threats than the student’s own parents.
Furthermore, because such security would be on a voluntary basis an armed aggressor wouldn’t know whether they were facing one armed opponent, or a dozen.
The coach ran to the sound of the gun. He wasn’t even armed.
In Argyle the teachers are trained by the cops and go through training to emotionally prepare them to use force. Some drop out befor finishing the program after that training.
Plus, just because one cop punked out dosen’t mean they all would. If there were 5 or 6 armed teachers or guards or cops at least half would step up and do what they were trained to do.
Also if the access to the building were hardened properly the shooter wouldn’t get in.
Armed parents and grandparents would be great if trained and screened properly.