Should School Employees Recieve Firearms Training

As someone who's mother is a lifelong educator, I have some strong feelings about this, as do many. However, I must disagree with Con on this issue. The examples I will point to, I hope, will be taken as merely the evidence they are, and I hope emotions will be tempered on both sides. In this debate, I will attempt to show that: (1), the presence of armed security deters crime of all sorts, especially armed crimes and (2) that school districts and parents should ultimately make this decision and (3) that the introduction of firearms into schools in the hands of trained, responsible persons would not cause any undue danger. 1: Two tragic events, taken side by side, can show the major difference between having armed persons on school campuses. If the events of Sandy Hook Elementary and the more recent shooting at Arapahoe High School in Colorado. In both instances, a mentally disturbed individual entered a school with the intent of killing as many people as possible (http://www.cnn.com... VS http://www.denverpost.com...) In both instances, the school security measures had been in place since the Columbine shootings in 1999. At Sandy Hook, the killer was able to force his way into the school, through locked doors, and kill twenty students and six adults. The police response was 2 minutes and 41 seconds (CNN). Upon police entering the school, the killer took his own life. At Arapahoe high school, the killer shot one girl, who later died, set bookshelves on fire with Moltov Coctails and killed himself as the Sheriff's Deputy present at the school closed in. After approximately 80 seconds, the killer took his own life as the law enforcement officer responded. The connection between the two was the killer ending his own life when an armed person closed in. Con, it can be assumed, will admit that armed police at a school can be a deterrent. I challenge that they are the only deterrent however. According to this online report (http://www.policeone.com...), most police officers train about twice a year, averaging 15 hours. It would be incredibly simple for school officials, selected and background checked, to train that amount of time under law enforcement supervision. 2: As I am a Libertarian leaning Republican, I admit defaulting to the lowest level of government possible. As I admit my bias, I hope my argument will be taken on the merits. School students, the children of the local tax payers, are the responsibility of their parents first, and the State second. Any regulation on their safety is primarily a concern of the parents. Though I admit this debate is primarily the arguments between these parents, I hope Con will agree that they are ultimately the ones making this decision in reality. 3: According to an anti-Concealed Carry Weapons Permit (CCW) website (http://www.vpc.org...), approximately 540 people have been killed by licensed CCW holders over the time period of May 2007-Oct 2013, or six years, averaging less than 100 per year. Considering that, in 2011, there were an estimated 8 million CCW holders, (http://www.gao.gov...), this average is 90 deaths per 8 million CCW holders per year, or .001%. If this is not a viable trade for increased safety in schools, I don't know what is. (Note: VPC.org uses questionable tactics to gain their number, such as counting the killer in a murder/suicide, deaths in states that do not require CCW license. Admittedly, the number could also be higher.) Limiting myself by characters, I shall end here. In review, licensed, trained school employees can be a valuable asset in a tragic scenario, and are hardly likely to be a hindrance to safety.