The real problem is massive media coverage in a country of more than 300 million people. The murder of school-aged children is down 42% from the early ‘90s and only 2% of school-aged murders take place in schools, despite the great amount of time that students spend there.
School already is the safest place for man, woman or child to be, and however horrific this crime it is no excuse to plow massive resources into guarding the safest place one could be.
We’d do far better to direct our resources elsewhere—even if only on making money, as a stronger economy makes everyone safer.
That's the whole point I am making. This is a relatively inexpensive solution made up mostly of trained volunteers.
Sure, there are some expenses.
It would probably be wise to have somebody like a retired or off duty policeman as shift supervisor over the volunteers when the school is in session. Perhaps he could be paid a nominal stipend. Maybe the volunteers could be paid a small per diem to cover their costs like the county does for jury duty. Likely, the NRA would offer liability insurance and free training and certification. The volunteers should probably be deputized by the County Sheriff, as a liability and chain-of-command issue. The security would also need two-way radio communications and who knows... perhaps even a locker with bullet proof vests to issue daily to those on duty.
Frankly, I don't know all the details. Each school district is different and their Boards would have to figure them out. But expenses for each school would probably be less than that of a single full time cop on a shift.
This should not be a program to bulk up the paid union "professional" numbers or add more expensive and useless layers of government workers to an already bloated education system. It is a mostly volunteer plan, manned by trained citizen volunteers (including teachers and staff) ultimately supervised by the Sheriff or local police department and under the jurisdiction of the local School Boards. It puts genuine power and responsibility back into the hands of the community.
Of course, for many of the above reasons, Liberals and the public unions would strongly oppose it.