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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hutchings asked the city council last night to immediately reinstate SROs.  If you watch the video in attached news article from Channel 7, at the end he states that the student that brought the loaded weapon to school because he didn’t feel safe there (from which I infer the student had some sort of threat against him and was bringing it for protection, perhaps similar to the student in the Arlington, TX shooting this weekend).

And IF there are similarities in these events, let’s take a moment to look at what happened in TX this week. From eye witness accounts and a video there was a fight in the classroom in which the shooter was beaten. After the fight was broken up, the shooter gets his gun out of his backpack and shoots the student who beat him up and the teacher is also shot. The shooter’s family has claimed the shooter was repeatedly bullied and didn’t feel safe at school.

So just because this wasn’t a “mass shooting” (which by definition is two or more people killed in the same shooting) doesn’t mean this wasn’t awful or that it couldn’t have been much worse with more students shot either purposefully or by ricochet bullets.

Could an SRO made a difference?  Could metal detectors at the door made a difference? Is it the job of a teacher to intervene vs that of an SRO when violence between students who are big enough to be/are adult size is present or a potential?

http://wjla.com/news/local/school-board-city-council-return-sros-alexandria-city-schools[/quote]

The Texas school had SROs.[/quote]

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