Results: Veteran dad stands guard outside of child's school after Texas shooting

"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," Ed Chelby, a U.S. Army veteran with eleven years of experience in the army and in security, told reporters during an interview after a picture of him standing guard outside Saegert Elementary School went viral. Do you think if parents took a more active role in the security of schools things would change for the better?

Chelby has a daughter who attends Saegert Elementary, where his wife also works as a nurse, KWTX-TV reported. "Him standing in front of the school, that's reassuring — feeling that we get to go home and see our families this summer," Samantha Longfeather-Locke, the woman who took the viral photo of Chelby, told the outlet. If you are a parent, would you be reassured if a diligent father, like Chelby, took the initiative to stand guard outside your child's school?

"The world needed to know what he was doing because I feel that, that's sparking some sort of change to start," said Longfeather-Locke, who also has a child at the school. After the Tuesday shooting in Uvalde, Chelby emailed the school district's superintendent, requesting permission to stand guard outside the school's entrance, the father told KWTX-TV. The incident had left Chelby with "sleeplessness caused by the grief I experienced," he said, according to the outlet. Did hearing of the shooting in Uvalde, TX last week leave you feeling especially concerned over the children in your local school district?

Chelby told the outlet that after the shooting in Uvalde, "a lot of emotional people" came up to him, telling him that "[t]hey 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,'" Chelby said. Do you admire people like Chelby, who is willing to volunteer his own time to help keep kids and staff at the local school safe?

Before Chelby requested to stand guard, he was in the process of becoming a school volunteer, with a background check underway when the superintendent gave the nod to his helping secure the school facility, KWTX-TV reported. Do you think the fact that Chelby had already applied - and was undergoing processing - to be a volunteer for the school helped him get approval by the superintendent to stand guard?