So it begins, Sen Feinstein calls for a ban on guns

[BjornF16]

While you will never convince me any amount of money is to much for the protection of our children, we do have to realize there is only so much in monetary funds to go around. The latest in security systems can get rather expensive. Could you foresee the security system getting so complicated and overbearing that it turns our schools into prisons.

A security guard in the front office will certainly make our schools safer. However, let me please ask you this, How difficult is it to plan an attack on a compound where the majority of the inhabitants are disarmed and you know where armed personnel are located? How much more difficult would it be to plan an attack on the same compound where a large number of inhabitants are armed and you have no way of knowing which ones are?

The unknown is a powerful deterrent.

A lesson from warfare that keeps being relearned is this: avoid being predictable. Put an armed security guard in the school and make them roam, in a random, non-predictable manner.

While I really don't mean the absolute cutting edge in latest technology...what I really mean is video cameras, swipe access, and entry doors that don't have glass you can blast out and bypass the security door...