Ignatius Piazza has another new ally in the battle to safeguard and protect schools and colleges across the nation: Brandeis University in Massachusetts. This east-coast college represents more than 5,000 students and its president recently announced his decision that the university would begin arming campus Public Safety Officers.
Quoted in the Brandeis Hoot, the Brandeis University's community newspaper, the president of Brandeis, Jehuda Reinharz said, "Last May, as part of an overall effort to further enhance campus safety and security, I asked that a committee be established to consider arming Brandeis Public Safety Officers," said Reinharz in a campus-wide e-mail sent Sept. 12. "After careful consideration, I have decided to proceed to arm the Brandeis Public Safety Officers and I have asked [Executive Vice President Peter] French to begin the process."
The Hoot stated later in the article that without firearms, the college Public Safety Officers are effectively unable to perform actual safe-guarding. According to the Hoot, "The report stated that all Public Safety Officers 'are trained at the State Police Academy... [and] are required to be re-certified on a regular basis.' Furthermore, the report stated, despite Public Safety Officers carrying clubs and mace, their lack of firearms forbids them to intervene in any situation involving weaponry, forcing them to wait until Waltham Police officers arrive on the scene. 'Last year, when someone reported that a weapon was present at a fight in graduate housing, the Campus Police could not respond until the Waltham police arrived.' "
Dr. Ignatius Piazza and Front Sight would find the student reactions interesting. For the most part, many students were in favor of the idea, at least tacitly. Many stated that the idea was a good one, and would help prevent any situation from escalating. A small number feared that the presence of firearms would make situations that normally would've remained small become large, and a very small few seemed just terrified of guns in general and reacted irrationally to this fear, saying that guns are just bad and should stay out of the hands of everyone. Dr. Ignatius Piazza and Front Sight are certainly used to opinions of the last sort: this irrational viewpoint doesn't allow for those who carry firearms illegally or with hostile intent. Those who are trained should carry firearms, and yet, if they are restricted from doing so, they cannot defend against those who are armed despite any law in opposition to this.
But nevertheless, Dr. Ignatius Piazza and Front Sight are happy with the decision made by Brandeis. Having been on the bandwagon of arming and training campus guards for years, Dr. Ignatius Piazza is becoming more and more happy as increased reports of schools deciding on what he knows to be the right course of action. The list of schools deciding to arm their guards is getting longer, and it's beginning to extend even to private and public high schools that are realizing the obvious fact that guns are the way to protect against guns. Dr. Ignatius Piazza is happy with the burgeoning numbers, and he's certain that they will continue to grow.
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