The National Rifle Association announced a plan for armed civilians in schools. Brentwood's school superintendent had no comment, but the police chief discussed school security in a meeting Thursday night.
Maplewood Richmond Heights high school and middle school already has an armed officer, but not the elementary.
The National Rifle Association announced a plan for armed civilians in schools. Brentwood's school superintendent had no comment, but the police chief discussed school security in a meeting Thursday night.
In today's press conference in Washington DC, the National Rifle Association broke its weeklong silence following the horrific shooting of 26 people at a school in Newtown, CT, and called for a surge of gun-carrying "good guys" around American schools. NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre called for a new kind of American domestic security revolving around armed civilians, arguing that "the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun." Brentwood School Superintendent David Faulkner declined to comment on the NRA announcement. "It is not my place to comment on this position statement at this time," Faulkner said in an email to Patch. "I really do appreciate that you understand why we are keeping our security …
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Mr. Completely
8:13 pm on Sunday, December 23, 2012
Jack Bock: Its not Chief Disbennets problem. Its a security issue within the school building that needs to be taken seriously by the school board. This threat keeps getting kicked around between gun banners, NRA, media, police, school supers, teachers, you and me and nothing is being accomplished. There are a handful of people here locally that could tell the school districts how to begin a … more ›