Using Federal Funds to Armed Teachers, It’s About Time

By Ammoland

Opinion

Ft Collins, CO –-(Ammoland.com)- Armed Teachers, Revisited:

Current Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, is floating the idea (for the first time, so long as anyone can recall) of local school districts being allowed to use federal funds to purchase guns and firearms training for school personnel, including RSOs (RSO funding usually comes out of school finances, not the police department’s budget)!

Under the current “system” in many states, armed teachers and school administrators are an idea that is drearily rejected by much of the leftist “educational community.”

However, in some states (like Colorado ) school personnel, including teachers, are being quietly armed and trained, with scant objection from even otherwise rabidly anti-gun liberals.

Most, even liberals, can see that immediate, and competent, armed resistance to campus invaders looking to do harm is the only effective means of reducing casualties during lethal attacks on schools.

Police response, no matter how fast, is not nearly as effective, as we’ve repeatedly seen.

Even professing liberals have “Well, Duh!” moment now and then!

I have students who are teachers in liberal states where there is no chance (at least currently) of officially arming and training …Read the Rest

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