bobinbusan
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Guess they'll be trying to pass a bill that you have to be 21 years old to sign up for the service?
Those are all good points. What do you purpose we as a nation do to solve this problem in a cost effective way?
To be able to get ANY liability insurance, you're going to have to demonstrate standardized training. In order to have to have standardized training, you're going to have to have standardized weapons. In order to have standardized weapons, you're going to have to issue the weapons. In order to issue the weapons, you're going to have to have a procurement contract. In order to have a procurement contract for weapons, you'll need funding.
And then within a few short years, Erik Prince (if hes not in jail yet by then) and his sister Betsy Devoss, will have a "Blackwater" type school protection contract in place nationwide.
Then things will really start getting expensive.
So, I'm eating lunch, but roughly speaking, 50,000 schools, X $200,000 each, per year for guards (gotta figure in liability insurance, training, health insurance, uniforms, extra coverage for sick days, etc..... Comes out to $1 trillion a year.
And again, that's before the Erik Princes of the world get involved. Costs would easily quintuple once this became recognized as a monetization opportunity.. Look how much we paid private armies in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other places.
Liberals scream bloody murder at the reduction of welfare giveaways but suddenly become fiscally responsible over school safety. Amazing......
Yea but I was looking at this from a national standpoint.
It's obviously, a national problem.
I think one security guard is probably never going to be enough. After all they are responsible for security within the school as well as security against outside threats. Also we don't want to give an attacker even odds, so a 2:1 or better ratio against a school shooter would be my goal.
Of course funding for this would be extremely expensive, but probably less expensive than building a wall on the Mexican border.
I have very mixed feelings about arming teachers. I am certainly against forcing teachers to be armed. One concern is the teacher losing control of the weapon and it being stolen by a student. However, if a teacher wants to be armed and passes a significant training course, then I would be good with that.
So a trillion dollars is a heck of a lot more than I guessed. That would be a non-starter.
How about the idea that we can get a restraining order on folks who threaten violence - it is a bit of an expansion of the current law but not by much. Restraining order would block purchase new guns and require the restrained party to part ways with his existing guns for the duration of the order.