Nope.
There is something both odd and slightly satisfying in the newest roadblock facing conservative plans to put more guns in schools. Private insurance companies
want no part of it:
As more schools consider arming their employees, some districts are encountering a daunting economic hurdle: insurance carriers threatening to raise their premiums or revoke coverage entirely. […]
[A]lready, EMC Insurance Companies, the liability insurance provider for about 90 percent of Kansas school districts, has sent a letter to its agents saying that schools permitting employees to carry concealed handguns would be declined coverage.
“We are making this underwriting decision simply to protect the financial security of our company,” the letter said.
We've already
seen a significant blow dealt to the death penalty by pharmaceutical corporations that don't want their branded products associated with killing people. Now the private insurance industry is balking at conservative notions of putting guns in schools because they're not buying the conservative line that arming teachers or other employees will make the buildings safer places to be in. On the contrary, the insurance companies are estimating that it would cost them considerably more money in payouts,
enough money that they'd rather drop policies entirely than try to insure that mess.
So another conservative utopia is threatened by, of all things, the very corporations that they vow we should treat as gods. When you have to turn a profit, you see, you tend to look on these things with a rather colder eye than the conservative legislators who demand the thing merely as ideological stance; sorry, state lawmakers, but the Free Market ain't buying it. The Free Market, in its infinite and infallible wisdom, has determined that arming schoolteachers is a measurably bad idea. By the transitive property of Corporate Awesomeness, this means conservatives now have to drop that idea and come up with something less freaking insane.
Sigh. You have to be at least a little intrigued by the notion that all the public disapprobation in the world can't seem to stop these little episodes of far-right insanity, but if one of the big American corporate sectors figures it's going to cost them some money, all bets are off.