Armed Guards in Schools? I Think Not
Sadly, more and more schools are buying into Wayne LaPierre's insanity -- oops, I meant, logic -- that schools need armed guards to be safe. As Justin Green writes in The Daily Beast, some schools in very rural areas are too far away for the police to respond quickly. So in Missouri, for one, they've turned to installing armed guards in these schools. And the townspeople love it. Excuse me, but I don't see how having any kind of weapon in a school is a good thing. I believe the Columbine killers used their armed guard's gun against him, did they not? Closer to home, and Newtown, some schools have indeed voted for people to patrol their halls with guns. Enfield, Conn., is one, which is pretty funny because this is a town with less than 45,000 residents, where the population has only gone up .1% since 2000 and which is located in the suburbs, rolling hills, to be exact. A Florida mother has handed out a $12,000 check for armed guards in her daugh...