What if all or most schools put in lockboxes with guns, programmed with the biometric data of all staff, and provided training in their use for all interested personnel?
This is an intermediate position between armed teachers, and both unarmed teachers on one line, amd security guards on the other. 99% of schools do not need security guards most of the time, and I would wonder about anyone willing to do that work, both as to their capacity to resist an armed intruder and as far as the likely inevitability it would attract pedophiles.
To my mind guns and adulthood, guns and mature responsibility, go together. It is childish to be afraid of guns, and it is childish and foolish to think that the right to keep and bear arms is doing anything but make us safer. Guns deter crimes at much higher rates than they are used to commit them, and I think for women particularly they are a powerful equalizer and tool for empowerment.
Oh, the usual dismal people are saying the usual dismal things. I am called a criminal for a crime someone else committed. I am being told, again, that the only “solution” is to give up some of my power to crooked people who hate me and who don’t know anything about anything, but still very much want to rule all of us. And, you know, if it doesnt work out, they are STILL in charge, and fuck you traitor.
Very strange times we live in.