Sen. Boxer proposes deploying National Guard at schools

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15. Unfortunately, prior military experience is actually a risk factor for gun violence.

Setting aside all arguments about the possible effectiveness of placing troops in schools...

The current national guard and reserves are experiencing high rates of substance abuse ( The MOST significant risk factor for violence). And for those worried about mental illness, mental illness with severity enough to raise suicide rates of Sandlandistan vets is above those of matched ages populations and occupations.

Moreover, it's not clear to me if any military occupation code is trained to deal with children, which seems like something all the add security to the schools folks seem to ignore.

I'm a Vietnam vet, and I'm all for finding jobs for returning vets but at first glance seems to create some issues that need to be worked out.

After we've screened their backgrounds for disqualifying factors for working with kids, and screened them psychologically to be sure they'd be safe around kids, they'd need to be trained for the task of being a lone warrior expected to kill perpetrators.