Speaking specifically about Columbine there was an armed guard there — actually two of them — and one did manage to fire at one of the attackers. He missed.
But having armed security on-site failed to prevent the deadliest mass shooting at an American high school.
In 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed 15 people and wounded 23 more at Columbine High School. The destruction occurred despite the fact that there was an armed security officer at the school and another one nearby — exactly what LaPierre argued on Friday was the answer to stopping “a bad guy with a gun.”
Deputy Neil Gardner was a 15-year veteran of the Jefferson County, Colo., Sheriff’s Office assigned as the uniformed officer at Columbine. According to an account compiled by the police department, Gardner fired on Harris but was unsuccessful in stopping him:
There was also an armed Guard at Parkland, so that didn’t help either.
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A false 9-11 cal claiming that Johnathon Crawford III was a potentially “active shooter” ended in SWAT murdering him on the spot when he was actually carrying a toy gun which he’d picked up off the shelf, we wan’t this to happen to our teachers?
Philandro Castille was a licences concealed carry gun owner, Police shot him down immediately after he told them that was the case.
Do we really need more potential instances for a someone like Officer Slam to be on the scene.
Or situations like the Texas Pool party and Officer Barrel-Roll.
In addition to all this there have been dozens of cases of School Resource Officer involved in sexual assault typically against female students. That’s been the case in Concord, NC.
CABARRUS COUNTY, NC (WBTV) -
A Concord police officer and former school resource officer is accused of sexually assaulting a minor.
The Cabarrus County Sheriff's Office says officer Douglas Buckwell, 46, sexually assaulted the victim between August 2009 and January 2015.
The victim, now 18 and known to Buckwell, filed a report with the sheriff's office on Feb. 11. She alleged Buckwell sexually assaulted her numerous times before she was 16 years old.
The Cabarrus County Sheriff's Office conducted an extensive investigation and arrested Buckwell, a 19-year-veteran with the Concord Police Department.
And they’ve shown wanton indifference to at risk students.
The investigation into Dwayne Vasiloff’s failings as an SRO began May 26, nine days after Eddie Perillo — a former sheriff’s deputy and the father of a now 6-year-old non-verbal autistic boy identified as a victim of child abuse at Kenwood — took a report filed by school district trainer/investigator Arden Farley to the Sheriff’s Office.
“Wanton indifference” was how Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office internal investigator Sgt. Lenny Holloway described Dwayne Vasiloff’s attitude toward child abuse investigations while serving as the student resource officer at Kenwood Elementary School.
Eight case workers for the Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF) described in detail how Vasiloff went to great lengths to avoid providing assistance when they came to the school to conduct child abuse investigations.
And it’s been a problem in Kansas.
A former Linn County school resource officer was in custody Friday after being arrested in Iowa on charges of aggravated indecent liberties with a minor and sexual exploitation of a child, the Kansas Bureau of Investigation said.
The KBI said the agency’s investigation led to the arrest of David Huggins, 45, of La Cygne.
Huggins, a former deputy in the Linn County Sheriff’s Department, was taken into custody Thursday in Decorah, Iowa, with assistance from Winneshiek County officers.
This isn’t to say the all SRO’s are a problem, simply put some are and some aren’t, but if the idea is simply having more of them trends aren’t all that great.
School resource officers (SROs) have become a permanent presence in many K-12 schools throughout the country. As a result, an emerging body of research has focused on SROs, particularly on how SROs are viewed by students, teachers, and the general public. This exploratory and descriptive research uses a different focus by examining the nature of crimes for which SROs were arrested in recent years with information gathered from online news sources. The current findings are encouraging insofar as they reveal that SROs are rarely arrested for criminal misconduct. When SROs were arrested, however, they are most often arrested for a sex-related offense involving a female adolescent. These sex-related incidents generally occurred away from school property or during nonschool hours and rarely involved the use of physical force. The implications of these findings for SRO programs are discussed.
So just in summary, this is an exceeding bad idea.