A Wisconsin lawmaker is suggesting that arming educators will keep schools safer from assaults like the ones we have seen the last couple of weeks and could help to prevent Columbine-style attacks.
There is a solution out there to making the schools safer, but this isn't it.
Teachers, principals and support staff have no business carrying concealed weapons into schools. It would actually increase the danger to everyone in attendance. Most teachers are not expert marksmen, and bullets have a tendancy to go through things, such as people that they're aimed at, though walls, ceilings, chalk boards, glass, wooden doors and other objects found in schools.
They'd be better off building satellite police stations on school property/buildings and having them manned before, during and after school hours. This would cut their response time down to seconds instead of minutes. But this wouldn't be the perfect solution either in every case.
Difficult problem.
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