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I have to say..... I'm just so appalled that this country has come to the point where we're even HAVING this discussion.

Another aspect of this would be the actual job description of the volunteer. Remember, actual active shooters in schools don't happen every day. 99.99% of these guys would spend 99.99% of their time doing... what? Sitting in the front office playing Solitaire on a computer? Standing in the hallway waiting for a maniac to walk through the door?

Also, I'm not sure how reliable "volunteers" would be, if they weren't paid. Would they show up every day? Take the afternoon off for a doctor's appointment?

I'm not being negative here... I think it's a great idea. But I tend to subject things to scrutiny. I know we have volunteers in church, but that's just for an hour on Sunday mornings. What we're talking about here is a totally different matter.

I can see some legal issues pertaining to teachers with this training, as well. Say you're a teacher with a CHL and you got this training, etc. A maniac steps into a classroom down the hall from you and starts slaughtering children with an AR. Will you be REQUIRED to pull out your Glock and go down there, lay your life on the line and face him? Would there be consequences if you didn't? I mean, hey, you signed up for it, you volunteered to "get special training to protect our children." So would you just stand there and let them be slaughtered, or go protect them? You get my drift here...

Again, it's a viable idea; the challenge, as always, would be its implementation.

rotor wrote:

clarionite wrote:

rotor wrote:FYI, although I had 8 years of active duty in the USAF I never once had any training in firearms or ever touched a military weapon. The closest I came to weapon training was watching an AR-15 shot at a watermelon. All firearm use that I had was on my own. The concept that military service and firearm training go hand in hand is not correct.

True. I constantly hear people talking about somebody "has had military training," the assumption being that if you've been in the military, you're some kind of battle-scarred Rambo. Far from the truth. That notwithstanding, the idea is rock solid. The trick would be getting around the hoplophobes squealing "we don't need MORE guns in the schools!!!!!"