I think school shootings are rare enough events that putting armed guards in a school will not appreciably impact school shootings (remember at Parkland there was an armed guard that simply ran away) but will lead to escalations that normally wouldn’t have led to a fatality. Anecdotally a friends husband is a armed school guard and he recently shot and killed two students who had a gun in the school bathroom but had no plans to use it - one had just brought it to school to show the other one, but someone tipped off the SRO. Not saying the kids made a smart move here taking a gun to school, and they deserved some serious consequences. But if the SRO hadn’t been armed and gone in shooting it would have necessarily been dealt with differently. I have no stats to back it up, though, other than this experience and my intuition that having a gun makes it more likely a gun will be used.

I think people over estimate how brave security guards are - most are just normal dudes that really need a job. They aren’t trained soldiers or experienced SWAT. Facing down a determined killer that’s well armed and committed to murder is precisely why we have to train soldiers extensively to fight - we aren’t built to cope with that situation naturally. That’s why I’m Uvalde the police sat outside until the border patrol tactical team came in and ended it. The police weren’t trained well enough to handle the situation but the tactical team was. What makes you think we can hire enough elite tactical teams to man every school to prevent the next school shooting? There aren’t enough of them to go around and they’re too skilled to sit in a school all day waiting for a day that at 99.999% of schools never comes.

It probably wouldn't fly as a federal plan to do anything but make funding available (schools are very locally controlled AFAIK), but certainly seems possible. Not likely, though - schools are underfunded already and always the first target for cuts, so I can't see support for extra spending on them.

The most politically influential sections of the population don't send their kids to public school anyway, do you think they care? They do own shares of MIC corporations, though.

I also suspect some would oppose armed guards on the grounds that they would be more likely to harm students than protect them, and making schools even more like prisons won't look great.

You mean, like armed cops? Surely that's gonna work

That wouldn't change much unfortunately a couple cops can't fight a crazy with an AR-15.

Don't waste my tax dollars in such ineffective measure.

I think there's enough cops already... just have one hangout nearby...