So far, there has not been a REAL terrorist attack on a school such as the Beslan school siege/massacre. Beslan started on 1 September 2004, lasted three days, involved the illegal imprisonment of over 1,100 people as hostages (including 777 children), and ended with the death of at least 385 people. The shooters in the USA at schools have been, for the most part, students .... not trained, committed terrorists. We’re ‘cruising’ for a real national disaster with the current “gun free zone” mentality and status of schools .... and background checks, banning bump stocks and limiting gun purchases to 21 aren’t going to prevent a real terrorist attack, nor future school shootings by motivated (for whatever reasons) students.
Armed, vigilant security guards, with a hardened environment to access schools & classrooms that can be defended (ability to lock/barricade doors with security devices, cameras in critical spots, etc.) plus drills for active shooter/terrorist attacks should be SOP. The police in general need active shooter/terrorists in a school protocols (some places have them) & they need to drill on them. What just happened was a real clusterF and those in charge of protecting students failed miserably. If I were a parent of a murdered child, I’d be suing at a minimum - Broward was warned about their destructive school discipline policies years ago so they have blood on their hands for sure & the police were complicit. Don’t even get me started on the FBI negligence.
We’ve been “lucky” so far that the school shootings are by rank amateur students. An ISIS sleeper cell or some other terrorist group will cause a heck of a lot more casualties than 17 or 32 (VT).
Gun free zones are an invitation to terrorists to stage a Beslan type of event.
Arming the teachers would keep our kids out of trouble.