If ever there was a poster child for armed security in elementary schools, this little one (lower right) is she. Murdered in her first grade classroom by the Newtown maniac.
I’m a firm proponent of armed security like the good guy whose prompt response stopped the latest school shooting. I would personally tear down all those “gun free campus” invitations to the insane currently posted oh-so-righteously by self-centered idiots whose vision stops at the ends of their noses.
For all I know, though, the kiddo’s mother disagrees with me. Lots of people do. But she writes a simple, poignant essay about her lost child that’s worth reading. I’d quote from it but it’s under all-rights-reserved copyright. So click the link, please.
The badge gang, of course, was johnny-on-the-scene-at-Newtown—as always, just in time to clean up the blood and fill out the forms. And strut around in their version of security theater. I’m sure they felt just like the fools they looked. Armed security in the school is the only way to stop these travesties.
UPDATE: Instead, the good guys in Connecticut have to register their guns. Criminals, of course, will not obey the law and the insane? You can imagine.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
The problem is that the armed security men would have to be trained to identify a possible maniac. Which is the main difficulty.
Oh, I’m sure they can always find reasons not to do it. TSA says it’s impossible to identify a terrorist and so we must all submit to groping. The perfect is the enemy of the good.
The armed security man who stopped the latest shooting did so when he heard the first shot and ran to the sound of the gun. If he’d seen the guy come in with a gun, he would have stopped him right then. Probably by shooting him.
The system doesn’t have to be perfect to beat the pee out of the current no-system, trust-to-luck, keep the pols, progressives, and news media happy, etc., etc. While the kids go on dying.