Gillian Flaccid with another ´ooh those are scary looking guns´ lead.

Cosmetics have nothing to do with caliber or muzzle velocity and vice versa.

It´s a good idea to read the article. This is a pretty straightforward account of how some California school districts have handled placing firearms in the hands of campus law enforcement. How the programs work, where the weapons are stored (they are not stored on campus, but at the main police office - in a locked safe), how the officers are trained, how the weapons are checked to the officers, etc.

There is one part about concerns by parents and students about armed personnel on campus. But it is not emphasized and that is not the direction this article takes.

This illustrates how school districts HAVE been preparing for something they hope will never happen.

That´s Fontana. It was the same way when I went to Jr. High in the late 50´s. You had to learn to fight or run or both. The Hells Angels started in Fontana too.

You don´t hear reports of massacres inside inner city schools despite their being in the most dangerous, violent neighborhoods in the country. They have armed guards inside the schools. The kids may be SOL outside or they may get shanked or beaten or any other number of vicious assaults, but you don´t see the massacres that suburban kids are subjected to.

Nope. They do not need the sustained firepower etc. that these rifles are designed to provide. They need shotguns and maybe one bolt action .30-06.

It probably doesn´t even matter the effectiveness of the particular gun being used. Just the mere presence of having them will probably deter anyone from having to actually use one.

Some more info here: http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=720395 , where the headline contradicts the article´s content.

A ten year-old who can handle a .22 rimfire bolt-gun can handle an AR style platform instinctively. Note the ´high-power" buzzword designed to influence the ignorant. They are not considered large enough to humanely hunt deer in many states - used for varmints, coyotes and feral hogs mostly.

But they are safe at the police station - so they´ll never be of any use. in an event that calls for them all the victims will be gone before the first officer arrives at the station to "sign out" his Colt.

Don´t you feel ever so much safer now? /S