(Tyler Durden) A picture of a father in Central Texas standing guard at his daughter’s elementary school where his wife also works has gone viral on social media in the wake of this week’s mass shooting incident in Uvalde.
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by Tyler Durden, May 30th, 2022
Ed Chelby, a U.S. Army veteran who has a background in security, told KWTX that he couldn’t sleep after news emerged that an 18-year-old gunman killed 19 children and two teachers on Tuesday at Robb Elementary School.
Chelby said he contacted the school’s superintendent to ask for permission to stand guard at the main entrance of Saegert Elementary School in Killeen, which is located about 180 miles northwest of Uvalde.
“I said I would just be out there unarmed to let people know that I’m watching. Let the parents have a little bit of relief,” Chelby said in an interview with the local news station.
“I can’t let this go,” he added.
“This is just a testament to the sleeplessness caused by the grief I experienced.”
The U.S. Army veteran was already in the process of becoming a volunteer at his daughter’s school and was undergoing a background check when the superintendent approved his application to stand guard outside.
Chelby said with 11 years of experience in the U.S. Army, he isn’t afraid to be in front of the school without a gun.
Parents of other children at Saegert Elementary School have approached Chelby to express their gratitude for what he’s doing.
“I’ve had a lot of emotional people come up to me,” he said,
“They didn’t want to send their kids to school. They struggled with sending their kids to school. And I told them, I was like, ‘I got them.’”
Eli Lopez, the principal at Saegert Elementary School, told Newsweek that another parent, identified as a veteran mother, has also volunteered to help guard the back entrance of the school.
A makeshift memorial at Robb Elementary School is filled with flowers, toys, signs, and crosses bearing the names of all 21 victims of the mass shooting that occurred on May 24, in Uvalde, Texas, on May 27, 2022. (Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times)
Other parents have volunteered for a safety program for the next school year, Lopez told the magazine.
“As I took time to check on them and express my personal appreciation, they both expressed the simple act they felt they were taking on of being present as the least they could do,” said Lopez.
“I was humbled that they demonstrated what it is to be part of the village that cares for each other. Neither one chose this task for recognition.”
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Perhaps citizen militias to protect the schools are an option, because the parents appeared much more willing to risk their lives for their kids than the police were – I’m glad to see an investigation is going to occur there. If the police won’t do their job, then perhaps the government needs to pay parents to do it? I don’t blame this father at all. If I had kids in there, NOBODY would be capable of stopping me getting in there to try to save them! This father has realized that it’s time for the school shootings again, so that the DEMS can attempt to take everyone’s guns. I can see why the folk want to hang onto them in America even more when they see things like this happen. So, I predict this will simply backfire really badly.