Some school districts have been arming their faculty to protect their students, but many post obnoxious signs advertising that fact

by Edward Ulrich, May 3, 2019


The “Independent School District” in Thorndale, Texas has implemented a program of allowing faculty members to carry firearms and be trained for their effective use, and similar programs are being implemented in 20% of all other school districts in Texas.

Florida state legislators have voted to let its school districts decide if they want to arm their staff and teachers in a “Marshal” program.

In Colorado, an organization called “FASTER” (Faculty/Administrator Safety Training and Emergency Response) is providing training to teachers in at least 25 of 181 school districts, including giving them live-shooter tests.

Also a school district in Laurens County, Georgia has armed and trained its teachers to deal with any potential armed intruders.

A “Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America” organization is working to actually stop states from enacting agendas of arming and training the faculty of schools.  Their spokesperson said, “We just absolutely do not agree with gun lobbyists that turning janitors and librarians into sharpshooters is effective,” although she didn’t say why they thought that such programs would not be effective.

Both the Thorndale, Texas school district and the Laurens County, Georgia school districts display signs at the entrances of the schools announcing those programs, with the signs at the Texas school saying, “Attention, Please be aware that the staff at the Thorndale ISD are armed and may use whatever force whatever force is necessary to protect our students.”

It is common for many other school districts to post signs similar to what the Thorndale school district has done as well.  I don’t think it is necessary or effective for schools to post such signs, and likely it is even potentially dangerous.  I think such schools are being coerced into displaying such signs as a form of “appeasement” of the political Establishment which makes use of school shootings as PR events to advocate for their gun confiscation agendas.