"Evidence ?"
"In time of war : The Israeli answer to terrorism by Massad Ayoob Issue # 81 `` Israel began the program of armed citizen guards in the schools after the Maalot massacre in the 1970s , when a large number of children were slain in a terrorist incident . The volunteer parents work in plain clothes , armed with concealed semi-automatic pistols , and are trained by Israel & # 8217 ; s home guard . It is significant that in the more than a quarter century between Maalot and the incident mentioned above when the citizen guards shot down the terrorist in the school in 2002 , not a single child was murdered in an Israeli school ! ``"
"Evidence ?"
"The volunteer parents work in plain clothes , armed with concealed semi-automatic pistols"