Why FCPS elementary schools have no SROs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Two things can be true at once - we need gun reform AND we need to better defend the most vulnerable among us. The fact that the elites of this world walk around with trained, armed guards should tell you that it is an effective solution. When those same people tell you gun control is the ONLY solution, you should be very skeptical.

Arm every teacher with an AR-15. Problem solved, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Two things can be true at once - we need gun reform AND we need to better defend the most vulnerable among us. The fact that the elites of this world walk around with trained, armed guards should tell you that it is an effective solution. When those same people tell you gun control is the ONLY solution, you should be very skeptical.

Arm every teacher with an AR-15. Problem solved, right?

Clearly safety patrols need to be armed

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The school officer in Uvalde could not stop the armed shooter from entering the school and slaughtering a classroom of children. SROs are not the answer here.

+1 (this has also been true at other schools)

+2. The Good Guy With A Gun Who Saves The Day is a Right Wing myth.

+100 NO SROs!

The SRO in our school is an invaluable resource for students, admin, and teachers. He knows and talks to our kids regularly, plus knows the community and is in constant contact with local police so knows if there are suspicious people or activities around the school that require temporarily enhannced school security (for example PE classes and lunches inside, extra precautions at entry doors, etc.).
-FCPS MS teacher

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The school officer in Uvalde could not stop the armed shooter from entering the school and slaughtering a classroom of children. SROs are not the answer here.

+1 (this has also been true at other schools)

+2. The Good Guy With A Gun Who Saves The Day is a Right Wing myth.

Actually, a good guy with a gun IS what stopped this from being way worse.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/border-patrol-agents-who-killed-texas-school-shooter-were-from-agencys-elite-team-11653508857

Just stop.

The three border patrol agents were true heroes and were injured stopping the armed shooter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just noticed this fact in the email from FCPS today.
Elementary schools are easy targets. FCPS should assign SRO to every elementary school.

I would rather have another teacher, for the extra money an SRO would cost.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The school officer in Uvalde could not stop the armed shooter from entering the school and slaughtering a classroom of children. SROs are not the answer here.

+1 (this has also been true at other schools)

+2. The Good Guy With A Gun Who Saves The Day is a Right Wing myth.

+100 NO SROs!

The SRO in our school is an invaluable resource for students, admin, and teachers. He knows and talks to our kids regularly, plus knows the community and is in constant contact with local police so knows if there are suspicious people or activities around the school that require temporarily enhannced school security (for example PE classes and lunches inside, extra precautions at entry doors, etc.).
-FCPS MS teacher

My child’s SRO has helped a lot when my child was attacked at MS. Unfortunately they are necessary in upper level schools.

[Anonymous]

I'm pretty good with a handgun and I would be happy to do all I could if I were an SRO at a school (I have a PhD and a much much more lucrative job... so that would never happen). But to take out someone 20 or more feet away with body armor, with a handgun is really tough. The recoil and accuracy of handguns is just really low. You could unload the whole magazine and maybe hit them a couple times in the leg/arm. Good luck on a headshot before they shoot you like 20 times with their AR 15

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The school officer in Uvalde could not stop the armed shooter from entering the school and slaughtering a classroom of children. SROs are not the answer here.

+1 (this has also been true at other schools)

+2. The Good Guy With A Gun Who Saves The Day is a Right Wing myth.

+ 1 million (skipping all the ++++ in between).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The school officer in Uvalde could not stop the armed shooter from entering the school and slaughtering a classroom of children. SROs are not the answer here.

+1 (this has also been true at other schools)

+2. The Good Guy With A Gun Who Saves The Day is a Right Wing myth.

+ 1 million (skipping all the ++++ in between).

Who killed the shooter?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm pretty good with a handgun and I would be happy to do all I could if I were an SRO at a school (I have a PhD and a much much more lucrative job... so that would never happen). But to take out someone 20 or more feet away with body armor, with a handgun is really tough. The recoil and accuracy of handguns is just really low. You could unload the whole magazine and maybe hit them a couple times in the leg/arm. Good luck on a headshot before they shoot you like 20 times with their AR 15

Again, the shooter didn't have a body armor.

[Anonymous]

I am glad they don't have SROs. An SRO would be way more likely to inappropriately harm a student then to stop a mass shooter.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The school officer in Uvalde could not stop the armed shooter from entering the school and slaughtering a classroom of children. SROs are not the answer here.

+1 (this has also been true at other schools)

+2. The Good Guy With A Gun Who Saves The Day is a Right Wing myth.

+ 1 million (skipping all the ++++ in between).

Who killed the shooter?

It certainly wasn’t any SRO or law enforcement at arrived right away. They were too coward to confront the shooter and waited 1 hour for tactical backup.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The school officer in Uvalde could not stop the armed shooter from entering the school and slaughtering a classroom of children. SROs are not the answer here.

+1 (this has also been true at other schools)

+2. The Good Guy With A Gun Who Saves The Day is a Right Wing myth.

+ 1 million (skipping all the ++++ in between).

Who killed the shooter?

It certainly wasn’t any SRO or law enforcement at arrived right away. They were too coward to confront the shooter and waited 1 hour for tactical backup.

I truly do not understand why police officers are not rising up against the US allowance of personal assault weapons. I wish they would start speaking up about completely banning these types of guns. We need to stop these mass murders, and as Uvalde has shown us, cops with guns are simply not a match for killers with AR-15s and body armor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The school officer in Uvalde could not stop the armed shooter from entering the school and slaughtering a classroom of children. SROs are not the answer here.

+1 (this has also been true at other schools)

+2. The Good Guy With A Gun Who Saves The Day is a Right Wing myth.

+ 1 million (skipping all the ++++ in between).

Who killed the shooter?

It certainly wasn’t any SRO or law enforcement at arrived right away. They were too coward to confront the shooter and waited 1 hour for tactical backup.

The officers who tried to confront the shooter were shot. How do you confront a shooter that is holding a semi-automatic rifle? Should SROs be armed with similar weapons? What's your solution?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our ES is covered by the nearby MS SRO. The other ES is covered by the HS SRO.

- City of Fairfax

Good luck with that.