Security Guards Now Permitted To Be Armed At NM Community College

By Tom Knighton

By now, we know that schools are the kind of place that criminals often love. You have a lot of young people who aren’t particularly wary, in some cases a fair bit of substance abuse, and you have a place that the bad guys are going to love. That’s especially true in places where students aren’t allowed to carry firearms.

However, one would think that it would be something of a no-brainer that those who provide security would be armed, right? I mean, there have been enough mass shootings on college campuses through the years alone to warrant such a measure. Couple that with more pedestrian forms of crime and armed security should be obvious.

Well, apparently, some people are just now getting the memo.

The Eastern New Mexico University-Roswell (ENMU-R) community College board voted 5-0 Wednesday to allow some guards to be armed after increased training procedures and screening on Wednesday, according to US News and World Report, the Houston Chronicle, and the Roswell Daily Record. The vote was followed by three campus meetings in August and September attended by roughly 55 people, including 10 students.

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