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THe Supreme Court case Castle Rock vs Gonzales has basically said that we have no specific right to police protection even though we pay for it. It is a general thing, not a specific thing. The gist of that case was a woman had a restraining order against her estranged husband and the police failed to protect her. Either she or her family tried to sue the police department for failing to do their job (I can't recall the exact details), and it was ruled that the police is not a private security force.

My point is that even though we pay taxes for said "protection", we cannot rely on it nor expect it to be there when needed.

What would the difference be between a trained and armed professer carrying a weapon and security officer with a weapon? Not mandatory, of course, but voluntary. I don't see the insanity, personally. Obviously being a "gun free zone" didn't help those 30+ people at VA Tech.

However, as Alex said, there will never be anything close to agreement on this. In an earlier post I said that Americans might feel like they can do something about situations like this, but I don't think there is anything that can be done. Bad people are bad people. Disturbed people are disturbed people. It is not possible for laws or restrictions to stop all bad or disturbed people who wish to do harm.