(03-23-2018, 09:18 AM)Cleatwood Wrote:

(03-22-2018, 09:24 PM)Sneakers Wrote: Great to hear you're on board. 

Single handgun safes start a less than $100 at Walmart or on Amazon. Not exactly a budget buster.
I would anticipate most teachers/school personnel would wish to carry their own.  If not, prices start at about $200.  Again, not an obstacle.

lol Not an obstacle?

There are 3.2 million teachers across america. So thats 300 dollars for a safe and gun. Then what about the training? Who is paying for that? How long should a teacher train for before being considered competent enough to shoot an active shooter? 6 months? A year? Can't have teachers using their own guns as well because that's a safety concern for the counties. Gotta make sure all guns are the same.

So we got 300 bucks at minimum for gun and safe. Then whatever it costs to train someone for 6 months (I have no clue how much this would cost but doing anything for 6 months isn't cheap) so let's just say another 300 bucks per person. 600 bucks total to train 1 teacher.

Now let's say we only train half the teachers in America. So 1.6 million. So that means we need $960 million dollars.

Hardly an obstacle and even so, one worth the cost of security don't ya think? FYI, your numbers are quite inflated and assuming we are going to arm every paid school employee. You're also assuming this isn't rolled out in a limited trial basis to figure out best practices and hurdles. Here is an honest question... Assuming you pay taxes would you be okay having an additional $2 taken to address spending $960 million to reinforce school infrastructure, implement metal detectors, and/or additional armed school security?

For some perspective, Duval county has a corporate tax base of $58 Billion and general tax base of $395 Million (down from $500 Million). In addition, there are school bonds estimated at $415 Million just for such expenses as described. If the Federal Government kicks in a few bucks, the financial aspect is really a non-issue.

https://flauditor.gov/pages/pdf_files/2017-119.pdf

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