{"id":10105,"date":"2013-03-10T03:26:51","date_gmt":"2013-03-10T10:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=10105"},"modified":"2013-03-10T03:26:51","modified_gmt":"2013-03-10T10:26:51","slug":"should-schools-have-armed-guards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/10\/should-schools-have-armed-guards\/","title":{"rendered":"Should Schools Have Armed Guards?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Of the many so-called solutions to protecting our society from gun violence, placing armed guards in schools is one of the most popular on the right.  Keeping schools safe has to be a high priority, but I question the validity of the notion that guns are the solution to gun violence.  Here\u2019s one reason why.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"10schoolguns\"A school district in New York has put a program to put armed officers in schools on hold after a policeman’s handgun went off<\/strong> at Highland High School. <\/p>\n

At a Wednesday meeting<\/a> with parents, Highland Central School District and police officials explained that Officer Sean McCutcheon had been suspended after his Glock .45-caliber pistol \u201caccidentally discharged\u201d in a school hallway<\/strong> at around 1:38 p.m. on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Lloyd Police Department Lt. James Janso said that a suspension was standard procedure while the incident was under investigation. Officials offered no further explanation as to why the gun discharged. <\/p>\n

Some parents at the school board meeting<\/a> questioned whether having armed guards in schools was worth the risk\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Photo credit: NY Daily News<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n

This video isn\u2019t that good, but it will give you the flavor of feelings in the community.<\/font><\/p>\n

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I don\u2019t blame the policeman.  Accidents happen, and I really don\u2019t know enough about the specifics.  However, if accidents like this can happen, even with the best trained professionals, police officers, putting guns in the hands of teachers, untrained school officials, and especially volunteer vigilantes is a virtual guarantee that tragic accidents will happen.  I think that regulations to enforce responsible firearms use will be more effective and less dangerous, but, if there are to be armed individuals in schools, they should be police officers, or perhaps retired police officers.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Of the many so-called solutions to protecting our society from gun violence, placing armed guards in schools is one of the most popular on the right.  Keeping schools safe has to be a high priority, but I question the validity of the notion that guns are the solution to gun violence.  Here\u2019s one reason why. […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}