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Interesting idea
Butler County, Ohio, sheriff Richard Jones has proposed commissioning people as peace officers and stationing them in schools.
I'm not convinced it would be that expensive. You could get five people for each school, with one day's service per week. Choose retirees who have time. My gun club alone could probably cover my city.
Of course a simpler solution would be to allow teachers, and in colleges, students, who have CCW licenses, to carry, for free. But the sheriff's proposal would at least deal with those who have no problem with allowing sworn law enforcement officers to carry, yet tremble at the thought of anyone else doing so. I knew a fellow at Interior who transferred from legal to law enforcement, got his badge, and defused a dangerous situation where law enforcement was frankly getting out of control (a vehicle chase with gunshots gets the adrenalin flowing, and the perp who crashed the car was a bank robber). He was the type of guy who kept his head in a nasty situation (as in pointing out that it's a bad idea to be shouting about killing the SOB in front of witnesses, no matter how bad he is or how worked up you are). But then he was the same before he got the badge.
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Stick with the simpler solution .
the simpler solution is unfettered exercise of 2nd amendment rights.
"the simpler solution is unfettered exercise of 2nd amendment rights."
Doesn't get much simpler than that.
"the simpler solution is unfettered exercise of 2nd amendment rights."
I'm with that 100%, the only reason I mentioned an alternative is because there are a significant number of Americans...probably enough to deep six the idea of "unfettered exercise" from the outset...who quake in fear and loathing at any thought of "untrained civilians" carrying firearms...even in the relatively conservative, freedom-loving state of Virginia.
The problem is that it provides a false sense of security. 5 "security guards" or whatever you want to call them cannot cover the entire campus of your average High school, let alone a wide open, sprawling environment like a college campus.
Heck, a hundred security guards couldn't cover Virginia Tech. It's huge and when I say "wide open", I mean it. 100 security guards wouldn't even put one in each building, let alone leave enough to cover the grounds.
If the faux cops aren't in the right place at the right time, they are useless...and students and staff are STILL relegated to relying on someone else for their personal safety.
I don't like the idea of putting more onerous restrictions on a right than are already in place, but if the only way an agreement could be reached, and the sheeple are so convinced that having a badge makes one somehow less prone to human error or corruption: give anyone on the campus who is qualified and has the desire to carry their firearm some LEO training...a couple of weekends should suffice...maybe an annual follow on...heck, you could make the classes a part of the university's criminology curriculum...and deputize them as "auxiliary campus cops".
That adds another layer of extra-constitutional restrictions, but is a compromise that lets qualified persons carry their personal firearms yet provides the illusion that only "trained law enforcement" are carrying firearms around the campus to satisfy the nervous Nellies.