Out of all the legislation and rule-making that has gone on in the aftermath of the school shootings that have afflicted this nation this rather common sense policy is the only one that makes sense to me.

HOUSTON - A Texas school district will let teachers bring guns to class this fall, the district’s superintendent said on Friday, in what experts said appeared to be a first in the United States.

The board of the small rural Harrold Independent School District unanimously approved the plan and parents have not objected, said the district’s superintendent, David Thweatt.

School experts backed Thweatt’s claim that Harrold, a system of about 110 students 150 miles northwest of Fort Worth, may be the first to let teachers bring guns to the classroom.

Thweatt said it is a matter of safety.

“We have a lock-down situation, we have cameras, but the question we had to answer is, ‘What if somebody gets in? What are we going to do?” he said. “It’s just common sense.”

Indeed it is.

The only way to stop a school shooter is armed response.  Unfortunately, such response is always going to be delayed in responding.  Which leaves us with two options: Either station a garrison of armed security guards in each and every school (certainly not a savory decision, nor a practical one from a spending standpoint) or you empower the staff already working in the school to exercise certain rights granted to them in the constitution. 

Namely self defense, and the right to keep and bear arms.