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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They stopped a kid with a loaded gun from harming anyone..seems pretty well run to me!  [/quote]

This. The school cannot control if person comes to school property with a dangerous weapon and possibly intent on doing harm, but they can and did prevent any such harm from happening. Sounds like they handled a dangerous and precarious situation in the best way possible, with the best outcome possible.

In order to 100% prevent anyone with a gun from coming onto school grounds (presumably with an exception for LEOs) schools would effectively have to set up airport-style security at the entrances to the parking lots and around the entire perimeter of campus. I'm not sure that's feasible (or desirable), nor am I sure that parents/taxpayers/community stakeholders would go for what that actually entails.

I think what schools need to do, which appears to be what Richard Montgomery did in this case, is have a protocol in place to make sure that if someone unauthorized to possess a weapon on school grounds does in fact show up with one they are unable to do harm to anyone in the school community and law enforcement is notified to take control of the incident.[/quote]

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