Safety with Armed Guards Patrolling School

Safety with Armed Guards Patrolling SchoolIntroductionThere is lots of instructs that do non have as much security to harbor students and teachers from violence.Having guards on school campus do help but what if the school was on a lockdown be private road of a shooting on campus. What is the guard going to do? Go up to him like nothing? No. What we need are armed guards. Armed guards will be able to stop the shooting and save peoples lives. taproom and mitigation. Graves has used U.S. Justice Department grants for classroom door locks that can be secured from inside, plus video cameras and electronic locks for outer entrances. There are a lot of wonderful fire prevention approaches, Graves notes. Wouldnt it be great if we could have the same consideration given to other kinds of threats?Preparedness. Because 95 percent of touch situations requiring lockdowns happen outside of school buildings, Lincoln County schools have two kinds of lockdown. A partial lockdown occurs when you bring everybody inside and instruction continues.Does your school have a figure for getting students back indoors quickly? Graves asks. We call it reverse evacuation. And you have to announce it because there are al or so always some kids outside.A complete lockdown is what happened in Newtown, with school employees working quickly to make sure children were tucked out of sight.Response. During spring break, Lincoln County schools invite police officers onto each school campus for active submarine sandwich training, during which they learn the layouts of buildings and practice stopping an assault. Its a useful exercise that, luckily for Lincoln County, has neer been tested.Recovery. During this period, the entire school community go in to provide support. Graves experienced this phase firsthand when she was invited to Newtown after the tragedy there. She visited memorials, hugged people, cried with them and listened as wiz local man told her that even the shooter was one of our s and we failed him.Schools are still by far the safest places in America. But the events in Newtown have swayed public opinion in ways that earlier shootings did not, and the AFT stands with prexy Obama, who said in his second inaugural address that our journey is not complete until all our children, from the streets of Detroit to the hills of Appalachia to the quiet lanes of Newtown, know that they are cared for, and cherished, and always safe from harm. subtile that our schools will never be safe as long as it remains easy for criminals or the mentally ill to acquire guns.AFT president Randi Weingarten, at the White House in January, commended President Obama and Vice President Biden for their proposals to reduce gun violence and promote safety, includingBanning sales of large ammo clipsExpanding background checks and cracking down on those who lie on background checkStopping illegal gun traffickingBanning assault weaponsEnforcing gun laws and investment funds in research on s topping gun violence andInvesting in mental health services.The first solution, fortifying schools, is unlikely to be effective not simply because it is costly a determined shooter could surveil and disarm the guards or defeat the metal detectors or other devices. throttle media coverage magnate be more effective.At the moment, media coverage of these tragedies is so relentless and invasive that it effectively glorifies the shooter.If the media refused to provide such coverage, or if it were prohibited from doing so, a potential shooter might be discouraged from committing mass murder/suicide because he would realize that he will not get the ring armormortem fame he craves.The obstruction would be in crafting a law that accomplishes this aim while not unduly infringing on the freedom of the press.The third possibility, repealing the gun-free zone laws, shows the most promise in deterring these horrible crimes, because potential shooters would not know who else might be carrying a gun.The most common objections to allowing licensed adults to carry firearms in schools is the fear that unless such a person is as highly trained as a policeman, he is likely to shoot indiscriminately at the shooter or over childrens heads, and cause even more terror than the original shooter has provoked.Body Paragraph 3This objection shows both a lack of an strength to prioritize and a lack of understanding of how widespread responsible gun ownership is in the United States. While state laws differ about what constitutes adequate training, the vast bulk of those who are licensed to carry do so responsibly.In considering the possibility of allowing concealed carry on our law school campus, one of my colleagues stated that she would never trust her safety to Professor X, an older professor widely known for his staunch support of the Second Amendment and other conservative causes.But if (God forbid) a dissatisfy former law student entered the faculty suite hoping to shoot as man y faculty members as possible, I would much rather trust to the ability of Professor X (or any other professor or student or even my own skill) to shoot him and not me than on my ability to run, veil in my locked office, or try to tackle the shooter.ost mass shooters are young men or occasionally womenusually teenswho are emotionally unstable and want to deal revenge on society for some harm that they have suffered commit suicide in a blaze of gunfire, and get national media attention for their farthermost act.Their desire to commit suicide indicates that though such shooters may be deranged, they are cognizant of the likely consequences of their acts and are acting accordingly by choosing suicide. tercet possible ways of doing this are to fortify schools with Armed guards and metal detectors as in airports, limit media coverage of mass shootings so that potential shooters recognize that they habitude become famous postmortem, or eliminate the gun-free zones and allow licensed p arents, teachers, administrators, and adult students to carry their guns into school.Body Paragraph 4Senetence 1 The first solution, fortifying schools, is unlikely to be effective not simply because it is costlya determined shooter could surveil and disarm the guards or defeat the metal detectors or other devices. Limiting media coverage might be more effective.At the moment, media coverage of these tragedies is so relentless and invasive that it effectively glorifies the shooter.If the media refused to provide such coverage, or if it were prohibited from doing so, a potential shooter might be discouraged from committing mass murder/suicide because he would realize that he will not get the post mortem fame he craves.The difficulty would be in crafting a law that accomplishes this aim while not unduly infringing on the freedom of the press. The third possibility, repealing the gun-free zone laws, shows the most promise in deterring these horrible crimes, because potential shooters w ould not know who else might be carrying a gun.ConclusionIt cannot be overemphasized that concealed carry has reduced untrained crime every time it has been passed and is therefore most likely to reduce the incidence of mass shootings in schools. This could help save Students and teachers lives.Source Citation(MLA eighth Edition)Nedzel, Nadia E. Concealed carry the only way to discourage mass school shootings. Academic Questions, vol. 27, no. 4, 2014, p. 429+. Educators Reference Complete, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=PROFsw=wu=j020902v=2.1id=GALE%7CA393875930it=rasid=60ebd55450302f2b54a3e4146bed4a53. Accessed 17 Feb. 2017.