should teachers be armed?
It has been months since the Sandy Hook school shooting, and Americans have been barraged with commentary blaming guns, bullets, rounds, magazines. There is a few realistic solutions that former Arkansas Congressman Asa Hutchinson and a team of experts from around the country have found. The National Rifle Association contacted and asked if he’d head a project that would offer recommendations to policy makers regarding an increase in school safety around the nation in the wake of the most recent school murders. Hutchinson agreed only if three conditions are met. The task force must be able to have:
Full independence,
No pre-conceived outcomes, and
Full support to use the experts needed to make appropriate recommendations.
The National School Shield Task Force is what they called themselves, and went right to work studying strengths and weaknesses in how American school children are protected. They spent three months reviewing vulnerabilities and best practices when it comes to protecting America’s schools.
What this team found not only provides solutions for effective student protection, but also exposes vulnerabilities from past incidences involving the youth of our nation and put it all in a report.
A lot of schools across the country have turned to local law enforcement to provide School Resource Officers. While lampooners lament the fact that staff or officers may bear arms in the protection of school children, there is no doubt that the layered approach to defending those kids has been proven effective.
At 8 a.m. on Oct. 1, Luke Woodham, 16, bookish and overweight, drove a white Chevy Corsica up to his high school. That was already a sign of trouble: the young man had poor vision and was driven to school every day by his mother. But three hours earlier that morning, Mary Ann Woodham, 50, had been stabbed to death with a butcher knife in the home she shared with her son. Luke Woodham walked into Pearl High 's commons, an enclosure created by the school
Full independence,
No pre-conceived outcomes, and
Full support to use the experts needed to make appropriate recommendations.
The National School Shield Task Force is what they called themselves, and went right to work studying strengths and weaknesses in how American school children are protected. They spent three months reviewing vulnerabilities and best practices when it comes to protecting America’s schools.
What this team found not only provides solutions for effective student protection, but also exposes vulnerabilities from past incidences involving the youth of our nation and put it all in a report.
A lot of schools across the country have turned to local law enforcement to provide School Resource Officers. While lampooners lament the fact that staff or officers may bear arms in the protection of school children, there is no doubt that the layered approach to defending those kids has been proven effective.
At 8 a.m. on Oct. 1, Luke Woodham, 16, bookish and overweight, drove a white Chevy Corsica up to his high school. That was already a sign of trouble: the young man had poor vision and was driven to school every day by his mother. But three hours earlier that morning, Mary Ann Woodham, 50, had been stabbed to death with a butcher knife in the home she shared with her son. Luke Woodham walked into Pearl High 's commons, an enclosure created by the school