Dove Creek, Colorado School District Appoints and Arms "Security Officers"

May 6, 2013

Proving that there are people who can use "common sense" and "reason" to protect against gun violence and help protect children in schools, a small town in Colorado, Dove Creek, has found a way around the so-called "gun free zones" in their schools.

I wonder how this will play in the halls of Congress or the Colorado State Legislature. Gun control advocates everywhere were so heartened by the fall of a western "gun culture" state to their misguided ideology and emotional rhetoric. Oh, right, it won't play there. We've already seen that even though Colorado county sheriffs opposed the state's gun control legislation they were ignored by national gun control advocates, mostly ignored by their state legislature, and certainly not given much consideration.

Thank you, Dove Creek "security officers", for taking on this added responsibility.

Their mistake so far is that they named who the first security officers in the school are. That's a piece of intelligence data that can help a criminal gunman. Though they acknowledge "...the board is looking at the possibility of having more armed school employees. He said one idea is to have the secretaries become security officers because they are the first to see anyone coming in the front doors. He said others who might be armed won't be named so that anyone wanting to do harm in a school wouldn't know exactly who is packing." I don't think there's a problem with arming secretaries in general, but to make it a predictable post is another tactical and intelligence mistake. As things stand now, the element of surprise, which can provide enormous advantage, lies with the criminal who knows what he intends and is prepared for it. A secretary at the entryway of the school would fall pretty quickly in that engagement - before they really knew they were in a conflict.

Note that this small rural town and school distract already had a close call. "Two Dove Creek teenagers hatched a plan to shoot people in the elementary, middle and high schools, which are in two side-by-side buildings. One of the teens e-mailed a student to tell her of their plans, and that student told her parents, who reported it to police.
Law officers found the pair had stolen weapons from a grandmother's house, and they were arrested before anything happened." For lack of a single email or a responsible reaction to it, Dove Creek would be in the national lexicon along with Columbine and Aurora. A so-called "gun free zone" would not have stopped them. Background checks would not have stopped them - the teenagers stole the guns from a relative. A "good guy with a gun" might have stopped them or limited the damage.

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_23178824/tiny-dove-creek-becomes-model-guns-schools


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