This chief should be commended for saying this in public. I'm considering sending him a polite note of support.
Oxford police chief favors arming schoolteachers
Oxford police chief favors arming schoolteachers
Chief Saad said he is not adverse to licensed, competent, capable, trained individuals who are teachers carrying a firearm in school.
“I don’t believe all teachers should,” Chief Saad said. “If they’re not comfortable with it, they absolutely should not. But you might have someone who is a proficient, firearms-trained person already in the school. I don’t know.”
Selectman John G. Saad said there is always a danger that a child or an adult with bad intentions could take a weapon away from an armed teacher.
“Just having another weapon in that facility makes me nervous,” Selectman Saad said.
Chief Saad disagreed.
“All these events, the majority of the times, when the police are responding, we’re just cleaning up the mess. It has already occurred,” Chief Saad said. “To have some force in the school to prevent it, should it happen, I think is paramount.”