#2 The truth of the matter is that while CC at school is good, unless the students with CC are organized by the school into a "defensive militia", it will have little effect.
Tactically, this is because few if any will even be aware that a hostile incident has taken place, unless they are notified. Even then, they will be at a severe disadvantage "in the attack" against the shooter.
The way around this is for a paging system, to alert CC students of an incident. Then, with their cell phones, they call a prearranged number to get information including approximate location. From that point, they are all on the same sheet of music, and this is where it gets interesting.
They DO NOT go "hunting" the gunman. Instead, all CC students go to a concealed area at or near the front of whatever building they are in (assuming the shooter is not right on top of them.)
They DO NOT "brandish", and instead keep a defensive position, looking for armed and hostile individuals.
This gives them and everybody a much better tactical position. To begin with, they are in a safer, defensible place.
Second, a hostile shooter who leaves his first position will be in the open and visible, and much more likely to be observed, whether he tries to move to a new location or even leave campus. The CC students will still have their cell phones.
Third, they will not become targets themselves by law enforcement who think they are the shooter.
Granted, most school administrations would *never* want CC students in the first place, *nor* to have anything to do with them in the second, so both of these things have to be mandated by the State governments. In addition, schools would have to be ordered to test the system at intervals, to insure that it worked.
But doing things this way, as a voluntary system, would be a way to have an "instant campus security system".
Importantly, though CC holders would prefer to "go it alone", organizing such a group themselves, it wouldn't work as well as a school run militia, as continuity in such groups is terrible, and ordinary attrition is high. That is, 100% of seniors leave each year, and 50% of freshman attrit for academic reasons. |
A committee of the Arizona Legislature is weighing arguments made today over a proposal to let people with permits to carry concealed weapons bring guns to K-12 schools, community colleges and universities.