The shooting in Texas showed us, once again, that the police cannot guarantee our safety. We must be allowed to protect ourselves. We are guaranteed the right to do so.
In Florida teachers and staff are encouraged to get trained, in some counties at county expense, and fitted out with a carry permit and that is advertised. Since that began under, I think, Governor Scott, the once or thrice a year bomb threats and gun threats that the schools in this county used to get have stopped. No more evacuations and lockdowns due to those phone calls and passed notes.