I don't get all the resistance to putting a cop in schools

[sulphurdunn]

174. 1. Not in elementary schools

2. No security guard is likely to survive a gunman shooting his way into a building. The best they can be are sacrificial early warning systems.
3. Like I said, your uniformed guard will most likely be among the first casualties or will not be able to respond in time to stop a massacre.
4, 5,6. You put the kids in a cube the intruder can't enter. No entrance, no casualties. Public schools do no burn readily, but if an intruder were able to set a fire in a hall that is all the more reason to have the students secured behind secure (fire doors). Trying to evacuate a building during an armed attack is likely to result in more targets of opportunity than defensive protection in classrooms. It takes several minutes to evacuate a school during a fire drill when everyone is calm. I can't imagine what a stairwell would look like with stampeding students trampling one another while being slaughtered. No sale
7. Staff and students in secure classrooms are safe. They are not sitting ducks.
8. The most likely causes of injuries from a school fire would occur during evacuation as a result of panic and smoke inhalation. Schools are evacuated during fires because the location of the fire is known and students can be moved away from it. The kids who committed the Colombine killings had planned to set off bombs to induce an evacuation so their targets would come to them.