Despite the Left’s emotionally-charged outcry for harsher gun control in the wake of Sandy Hook, the majority of Americans with kids would actually feel safer putting their children in schools with armed guards — like in the plan purposed by the National Rifle Association (NRA).
A new Rasmussen Reports poll asked 1,000 American adults, “Would you feel safer if your child attended a school where no adults were allowed to own a gun or a school with an armed security guard?”
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Of those polled, Americans with school-aged children showed higher support for armed guards in schools, with 62 percent saying they would feel safer if their child’s school had an armed security guard compared to only 22 percent who felt safer with their child in a school that bans guns.
Overall, 54 percent said they would feel safer with the guard, while only 26 percent said they would feel safer if their kid was in a school where no adults were allowed to have guns. Another 20 percent of those polled were undecided.
And while a plan such as the NRA’s would be prohibitively expensive, President Barack Obama has not outright ruled out the NRA’s plan. During his recent interview with David Gregory on NBC‘s “Meet the Press,” Obama said he was “skeptical” that armed guards would solve the problem of school gun violence, but said he wouldn’t “prejudge” the options recommended to him.
True, it may not solve the problem, but armed guards in schools would certainly make parents feel safer, it seems.
The Rasmussen poll margin of error was +/- 3 percentage points. It was conducted over the phone on Dec. 28-29, 2012.
