When something awful like a mass killing at a school happens, anti-gunners routinely accuse us of not caring about the safety of students. It’s the strongest round in their magazine because it triggers emotions, but that’s all it does. We know it’s false, and anyone with half a brain will at least wonder why we’re not tripping over ourselves to back gun control even when it might be unpopular to oppose it.
It’s because we know good and well that it doesn’t work.
What school safety requires is a lot of work, and none of it’s gun control. Because of that, it’s not surprising to see that Women For Gun Rights Missouri hosted a school safety summit.
Women For Gun Rights Missouri recently hosted a free School Safety Summit at the Hatch Auditorium at The Library Center in Springfield. The event brought together parents, educators, school officials, law enforcement officers and concerned citizens—some traveling from as far as four hours away—for a full day of education on active-shooter response and school safety.
National school safety expert Ed Monk led presentations focused on lessons learned from past attacks, the importance of response time and practical steps schools can take to reduce the loss of life. Monk is an Army veteran, former sheriff’s deputy and former high school teacher who has spent nearly two decades studying active-shooter incidents and training schools and law enforcement agencies across the country.
During the summit, Monk emphasized that even a rapid police response can take several minutes, making preparation and immediate action critical during the earliest moments of an attack.
The program included two school-focused presentations and a specialized session addressing critical lessons for law enforcement. Roger Moore of Peacekeepers Training also provided information about Missouri’s School Protection Officer Program and recent legislative improvements that expanded its use.
Women For Gun Rights Missouri threw its strong support behind the state’s School Protection Officer program. This is the program that allows school staff to train and be certified to carry a firearm while at work. That would put that “immediate action” Monk refers to right there at the moment of an attack.
We all hope that it never happens. We all hope that the reason we don’t get data about the efficacy of armed school staff is because they’re never called upon to act against a would-be mass killer. I think we all know that’s the best-case scenario.
But we don’t live in a world where the best-case scenario can be counted on reliably even most of the time. When it happens, we’re thrilled, but banking on it is like taking a chance on Mexican tap water. You can do it, but you’re going to regret it.
So, putting armed teachers and staff into schools can and should be one step of several to make our schools safer for the students.
And, if enough would-be mass murderers find their rampages cut very, very short because the math teacher presented a word problem about how much energy a 124-grain projectile traveling around 1,100 feet per second delivers to a human-shaped target in a forceful manner, well…I’m sure as hell not going to cry about it.
It might serve as a warning, too, that such people should look for easier prey.
Then, we need to make sure no such prey exists.
Editor’s Note: The radical Left will stop at nothing to enact their radical gun control agenda and strip us of our Second Amendment rights.
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