With schools tragically determined to be “soft targets” by evildoers, more and more educational institutions turn to the Second Amendment to protect children and teachers.

This is the case with the Cypress-Mauriceville Consolidated Independent School District in South Texas. Educational leaders recently agreed to adopt the Texas Guardian program, a first line of defense against those who would target the most vulnerable population.

Going forward, the system will have vetted and trained teachers and staff armed and ready for any violent threat.

Superintendent Stacey Brister reported that the system will boast roughly 15 staffers working at all levels of the district. Initiating the program will cost money, but the school chief explained that it is better than not having a deterrent in place.

“We would rather have that program up front even though it’s expensive and saves lives versus not having it and [losing] lives,” he said.

District Police Chief Michael Hennigan noted to local media that he is fortunate to have a sizable number of “former officers and military personnel” working from elementary to the high school level to draw from.

“It puts us at ease because we know until we get there, we have the campus covered. So that eases the burden on our hearts.”

The nation, and particularly Texas, will not soon forget the delayed response by the district and local law enforcement to the Uvalde school massacre. The tragedy claimed the lives of 19 children and two teachers, and though authorities were on the scene within minutes, it was well over an hour before direct action was taken against the shooter.

One of the delays was the inability to locate a master key to open the classroom door where the attacker was holed up. Armed teachers and staff will undoubtedly make the response to a future attack much quicker and better organized.

Instead of directly confronting the shooter, officers remained in the hallway or outside the building for an inexcusable time.

After the Uvalde massacre, Texas lawmakers mandated that a police officer must be present in every school. There are “good cause exceptions” permitted for small districts such as Cypress-Mauriceville, which do not have the resources to place a uniformed officer in every building.

Superintendent Brister explained that the new program allows a system with fewer resources to step up and protect the community’s most valuable asset.

“The law said you had to have a police officer. At the time, we didn’t have that,” Brister told reporters. “So we went with the exception which said you have to have armed personnel on a campus. But it was very broad with how you would address that.”

The Lone Star State established two programs to enhance school safety: the Guardian Program, which is being implemented in the Cypress-Mauriceville District, and the School Marshal Program.

The latter requires more training and has some law enforcement authority built in, while the former is focused primarily on addressing an active shooter scenario.

Community response has been largely positive after the system announced the change on social media in October. One parent, Cody Knott, expressed his support for enhancing school safety.”

He declared, “I personally can’t speak for other parents, but I know my wife and I, we are comfortable with it because we trust the teachers that are there. We know a lot of them and we are comfortable with knowing our son is protected.”

Participating faculty and staff use their personal weapons while the district provides ammunition. Hennigan detailed that it is not simply a matter of becoming an armed employee of the school system.

“It is not a one-step process and boom, you’re a Guardian. There [is] a lot more to it, a lot of training and annual and semi-annual firearms qualifications as well as in-class safety.”

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