Teachers With Guns: Abbott Debuts School Safety Plan in Dallas

[struggle4progress]

STEPHEN YOUNG | MAY 30, 2018 | 2:46PM

Gov. Greg Abbott's new school safety plan, unveiled at Dallas ISD headquarters, is voluminous, if not at all unexpected. The governor, seemingly chastened by the murder of 10 students and teachers at a high school in Santa Fe earlier this month, told reporters Wednesday morning that Texas schools need better security, more teachers with guns and stronger support systems for students experiencing mental illness. Abbott did not offer support for any major increases in gun control in the state ...

The governor wants police officers around Texas to take their regularly scheduled breaks and fill out their reports at schools in their area so that there's a greater chance that a cop is in the building if someone starts shooting. He wants more metal detectors in schools and fewer points of entry ...

After Abbott's presentation, Dallas ISD Superintendent Michael Hinojosa said that while he appreciates the governor's quick response to the shooting in Santa Fe, he doesn't feel that arming Dallas ISD teachers is the right thing to do.

"I would not recommend the marshal program in our context," Hinojosa said. "Teachers get hired, in my opinion, to help kids, and if you're trained to do the opposite — I've seen, even our police chief has talked about, even police officers who're trained to do this, whenever they have to actually hold their firearm, a lot of them go into the fetal position. They have trouble dealing with it. Very few people realize a lot of law enforcement officers never shoot their gun, and that's what their whole skill is" ...

http://www.dallasobserver.com/news/texas-governor-greg-abbott-school-safety-plan-10743232

[snowybirdie]

1. Police officers

need breaks from the job. Stop piling on their duties and those of teachers. They aren't paid enough. Look at the guns!

[walkingman]

2. It is a gun issue - no matter what the right says it is all about too many guns. Abbott - NRA puppet

[rickford66]

3. Teachers and/or students will be shot even without an active shooter situation.

Also, active shooters are not dissuaded by armed personnel since they are suicidal in most cases. Any student who decides to shoot up the school, already knows who is armed and how the occupants are trained to respond since they were also trained. There has to be a solution to this problem. I just can't think of one.