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GuzzisRule

On Mon, 24 Dec 2012 11:29:02 -0500, wrote:

On Mon, 24 Dec 2012 09:30:25 -0500, ESAD wrote:

"It will be a sad day for this country if children can safely attend
their classes only under the protection of armed guards."

President Dwight D. Eisenhower on the violence aimed at black Americans
in September 1957 at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Eisenhower sent in the troops to protect children from the terrorists
who were keeping them from attending school.

There have been cops in middle and high schools here for decades but
they are only there to catch a kid smoking a joint in the bathroom.

The cop at Columbine was under specific orders not to engage an active
shooter. I agree that to actually be effective a "guard" should get
extensive training and that should be in conjunction with a planned
procedure about what everyone else will be doing.

We had two Fairfax County Police at Lake Braddock High School when I was there. That was more than
ten years ago. They were in uniform, with weapons, handcuffs, and the whole bit. They had an office,
small, but spent most of their time walking the halls.