For the same reasons I suggested exploring that idea over four years ago at a Richland 2 school board meeting on February 27, 2018, two weeks after the shootings in Parkland, Florida.
What are the reasons?
- "make it 'more difficult' for people to get in..."
- First Responders can't get there in time to prevent a shooting.
- Police Officer (or Deputy) may not be at the right place at the right time.
- Very short periods of time involved.
- Schools are gun-free zones. The good guys, the law-abiding guys, will not have guns. Shooters know that.
If you were in the boardroom that night in 2018, you could have felt the temperature drop 40ยบ. Actually, what I suggested was a survey of parents, teachers, staff, community members to determine the Will of the People. Although the board chair had announced at the beginning of Public Participation that someone from staff would respond to speakers, no one did. I had to chase the answer, and Supt. Davis eventually spoke for the board, without a board discussion and decision, and told me that there would be no survey.
How naive I was at that time to think that the board would consider my suggestion.
At the time there were two armed District employees on campus. Both worked in the Security Office. Both were former law-enforcement officers. At a later meeting, the board decided to formalize the superintendent's authority for permitting them to carry. During Public Participation I suggested the authority should be the Board, not the superintendent, because of the liability involved.
What did the woke Board do? Rather than assuming the authority for final approval of concealed carry by those two employees, the Board decided that NO employee would be authorized to carry.
This is the problem when you have left-leaning, anti-gun people on the board.
Two parents said on February 27, 2018 that they did not want guns in schools. I don't, either. However, if the bad guy comes in with a gun, then I DO want guns in the school - in the hands of the good guys.
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