Should We Put Armed Guards in Every School?

A popular Christian blogger has responded to the most recent school shooting with a radical, yet simple and common-sensical, solution.  He insists that it is time to put armed guards in every public school in this country.  This idea, while viewed as radical by many, really shouldn't be novel or radical at all.  Walsh's logic is sound when he points out that most public buildings already have armed guards and that schools being the exception really doesn't make much sense; that this is an unpleasant reality of living in a fallen world and that bad things, which should never happen, do, in fact, happen; and when he says that the real issue is evil, not politics.

As much as I agree with his logic, I still must ask the question, is the solution to our problem really putting armed guards in every school?  That might be too radical for some, but it's not radical enough for my blood.  I have a far more difficult pill to swallow.  How about we get rid of public schools altogether?  No, I'm not suggesting this just because it would be a good idea to avoid the inherent vulnerability of hundreds of minors congregating daily with few adults present, even though that's probably a good enough reason by itself.  I'm suggesting that we get rid of public education because it is that education itself that is largely contributing to the problem.

Has public education in this country been successful?  Yes, and no.  No, public education has not been successful in making the youth of this country well-educated, but, yes, it has been successful at accomplishing the goals of its founders.  Yes, it has been successful in destroying the religious foundations of this country, making atheists and secularists out of our children.  Yes, it has been overwhelmingly successful in recruiting sheep who will stay in line and maintain the status quo.  Yes, it has undeniably successful in incrementally normalizing socialistic ideals in our political landscape.  Yes, it has taught our kids that truth is relative and that guilt is an illusion used by society to elicit conformity.  Yes, our nation's children think they are highly-evolved mammals and they act accordingly.  Yes, we have a generation whose inflated self-esteem is inversely proportional to their common sense.  Yes, we continue to pump our kids full of drugs so that we don't have to deal with them and so that we can keep the drug companies out of the red.  Yes, I'm afraid, our public education system has been a glaring success.

So let's abolish public education in America.  Let's privatize the public schools and sell the buildings to the teachers' unions.  Heck, let's give 'em the buildings!  The private sector is always, and I mean that literally, more effective and efficient than the government.  Getting the government out of education would simultaneously restore freedom, save money, and increase our academic standards.

Now, Walsh might actually be inclined to agree with me (I can't speak for him--I only know that he supports private education), but I know that my solution is too radical to be digestible for any significant portion of this country.  Given this reality, his suggestion is probably as good as you'll find.