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The Shooting in Uvalde: Would a School Marshal Program Have Made a Difference?

By Patricia Tolson

In the wake of the tragic school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24, one question begs for an answer: Would a School Marshal Program have made a difference?

After the shooting in Uvalde, in which 18-year-old Salvador Ramos shot and killed 19 children and two adults at Robb Elementary School, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton suggested arming teachers, a strategy that’s already been in place for years in another Texas school district.

Huffman Independent School District (ISD) in Huffman, Texas, has been training staff members as armed School Marshals for the past four years under a 2013 state provision, which allows school employees to be armed and trained through the state’s School Marshal Program to respond to threats against students and staff…

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