Practical progress may be making its way forward. It's not enough though and it's not coming quickly enough.
Like it or not, like its delivery or its deliverer or not, as controversial as it may be, I believe the sentiment that 'the only thing that will stop a bad guy with a gun, is a good guy with a gun'. Anyone thoughtful enough or who is well trained in firearms use, warfare, law enforcement or security knows that a determined criminal or terrorist cannot be prevented from committing their violent act and that it is only with comparable force that they can be stopped. They already have the advantage of surprise and the choosing of the time and place of the violence. Those are HUGE tactical advantages! What happens in the first seconds or minutes that THEY don't expect can have an equally huge impact on the eventual outcome. The police CANNOT be there in these early, decisive moments.
And here's the most controversial and more upsetting piece of that puzzle for gun control advocates. Even with a (single) armed, uniformed security presence in schools, we cannot guarantee safety. While we don't have armed security in schools, target selection becomes elementary - follow the path of least resistance. This is already being done by selection of so-called "gun free" zones. If there's an armed 'good guy' in all schools and the criminal wants to target a school anyway, guess who the first target will be. It's the presence of an UNKNOWN (quantity and location), CONCEALED element that stands the chance of more evening the odds in favor of the innocent. If it becomes a matter of public record how many firearms are authorized in schools and who's carrying them, they become potential early targets too.
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/NC-bills-allow-concealed-guns-at-private-schools-4317226.php#ixzz2MIzGtipD
Related blog:
http://us2ndamendment.blogspot.com/2013/03/florida-moves-toward-allowing-concealed.html
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