Document Type
Report
Publication Date
4-1-2013
Abstract
The price of implementing the NRA’s proposal to place an armed security guard in every school building in the nation is nearly $13 billion a year. The opportunity cost to taxpayers for fully protected schools can reach $23 billion. The cost per student approaches $500 and would take up half of federal spending on elementary and secondary education if paid for by the federal government. Is this the cost of protecting schools? Or, is it just one cost for permitting unlimited access to semi-automatic weapons and large capacity ammunition clips and preventing the potential for mass murder in our schools?
Repository Citation
Hill, Edward W., "The Cost of Arming Schools: The Price of Stopping a Bad Guy with a Gun" (2013). All Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs Publications. 0 1 2 3 678.
https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/urban_facpub/678
