In the case of the Middle School, there are five wings with 2,200 students. The High School has 1,500 students. I’m not saying that all schools should have armed guards, nor do I think they all need them, but having a presence is a positive thing. The retirees employed by our local district are former police officers with decades of experience, mostly in NYC. One thing that should certainly be banned are those “GUN FREE SCHOOL ZONE” signs. Whoever thought that was a good idea is clueless.
There are definitely plenty of inner city schools that need and currently have armed police onsite. There are cops onsite in Detroit schools and the gangbangers still shoot each other.
I agree that we need to ditch the gun free zones and stop advertizing them with the idiotic signs that might as well say “GAME RESERVE”.