More Employers Looking for Armed Guards:
One valley security agency said the troubled economy is driving businesses to ask for armed guards because they are concerned about what some desperate, unemployed people could do. FOX 10 spent the day at an intense training camp. Ref. Source 1
I can tell you being a armed guard is not what it is all cracked up to be. You are very limited in what you can and can not do as a armed guard and if you cross the line your can face some serious charges. I know these things because I was a armed guard for over seven years. I can tell you it is nothing like hollywood makes it look.