Your initial post is that we just need to lock the front door and hire a security guard. Problem solved. That is a very simplistic approach to a complicated and serious problem. Living in Plano, my kids attended large schools. Those schools had multiple entrances. Depending on the situation, those entrances were often open, allowing students to bypass the main entrance (for example, early in the morning during marching band practice, when students were lugging equipment and instruments out of the side door by the athletic field). My kids' high school had a campus with multiple buildings. Are you going to lock every door and put a guard outside each building? Even if you do that, and a shooter wants to get inside, all he has to do is bang on one of the non guarded doors. Eventually, a student/teacher is going to open that door to see why someone is banging on it from the outside. If you find a way to prevent that, what do you do about all the windows/glass doors?
Sure, it is possible to transform all schools into fortresses. But to act like all we need to do is lock some doors and hire a guard is disingenuous, naive, and simplistic. But, I guess it is a good argument if you want to find a way to rationalize the reasons we are where we are in this country, and prevent blame from landing at the feet of those who you have supported.
