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Solutions must be local
It is interesting that in a crises like the Parkland, Florida, school shooting, the talk seems to be enormous in scope. The president needs to do something. Congress needs to act.
A school is a local entity. Solutions to problems such as security need a local solution. Every school is different in location, structure, size, etc. Because of this, a universal approach will probably not be workable for every school.
In a production facility, the manager is responsible for the security of company assets — property, inventory, equipment, cash, and high on the list, people. At a school, the principal, with the counsel of the staff, teachers and PTA, should be able to work out the right approach for that school.
And it should be their responsibility. Don't push it off on the police, Congress or the president. The people closest to the situation will normally have the best solutions to problems.
Unfortunately, as we have seen in California, every problem needs a law. As we have seen in the last school disaster, government failed at every level. Local functioning would have worked better.
Robert Purbeck, Thousand Oaks