One is sufficient to deter shooters. You will not find evidence of a mass murder in a school with an SRO. If you bothered to actual look you would find a lot of instances where SROs prevented the escalation of an event into a mass shooting.
You may think you know what works, I know what works. I know what works because we were in a position where people would have died, but the efforts of an SRO and deterrence that came from the SRO being armed resulted in an altered course. If not for the SRO I might not be alive today. The armed student walked within feet of where I stood watching from the unlocked cafeteria doors at our school. Behind me were 150 scared students in lockdown position but not safe because we could not lock the doors. The other two teachers in the cafeteria stood by two other doors.
Had Sandy Hook implemented some of the safety procedures we did after that day lives would have been saved. We changed the locksets on every door, which enable the doors to be locked from the inside of rooms.
Most people don't have a clue as to schools in the US today. We already have video surveillance in all common areas of the school, most schools have surveillance. Our entire student body goes through a metal detector. Items like purses, bulky notebooks, etc are searched every single day as students enter the building. People coming in from the outside have one way in. After Sandy Hook our office security was increased, learning by Sandy Hook mistakes.
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