NWA Heavyweight Champion (and former bodyguard to Snoop Dogg) Tyrus is a regular on Fox News's Gutfield. He had what I felt was a great solution for protecting our schools...back in 2018. Yes, 2018. It's now 2023 and... well, you know.

Everything Tyrus laid out back in 2018 SHOULD be common sense. "SHOULD be" are the keywords here.

"4.3 unemployment for returning veterans in this country. That's 430,000 trained men who have eyes and ears. We need to have them at the schools. TSA needs to be at the schools. One way in. One way out. There's not one person in this building who not be ok with upping theirs taxes $25. I would even take money away from other things. Because we need to get with it. Because now it's guys with guns. Ten years from now it's going to be a guy with a drone."

As I said, this video is from 2018. We're now only five years away from a guy with a drone.

From a branding standpoint, I wouldn't call it TSA for schools. That implies the Blue Gloves of Freedom grabbing someone's junk on the way to AP Biology. Or getting too handsy when the wiring in your bra sets off metal detectors. "Ma'am, I'm going to need to cup your breasts for America." Hello, lawsuits.

But according to Google, there are less than 38,000 schools in the United States. How many of them have at least one unemployed veteran living near them? No, we wouldn't have to raise taxes to levels that boggle small minds. How many of these schools have a second or third assistant superintendent making a six-figure salary? Show of hands, who knows what an "assistant superintendent" actually does? Uh-huh. A therapist for overworked hamsters makes more sense.

Cut all the patronage bullplop in schools. Replace the jobs with people who actually protect our kids. From real dangers. Not signs written in chalk.

It's at least the start of a good idea. Far better than "you Christians asked for it" or "guns look super mean."

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