But Americans agreed with the NRA, that nothing else mattered more than the safety of our schoolchildren. Already, more than 23,000 schools have armed guards and in all 50 states, government officials, local authorities and school districts are considering their own initiatives to protect schools with armed security — because when it comes to keeping our kids safe at school, nothing else matters. That is, until the State of the Union address, two days ago. This was the president’s first State of the Union of his second term. This was the address in which the president.