Mass shootings

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(02-15-2018, 06:38 PM)Benton Wrote: $3-4,000 per metal detector. Even for schools that big, you can still reduce the number of doors. And even if 10 is the minimum, you're talking a one time $30-40,000 purchase. Train faculty on how to use them, move on to other ways to make the buildings harder to bring guns into. Theres just under 100,000 public schools in the US. That's around $400 million (if my math is right). Last I saw, we were spending more than $11 million per day on fighting in the Middle East. So... take a month off. Let's let some people over there blow themselves up and argue with each other for the month of March. Tell them we'll resume bombing the shit out of them in April once we've taken even baby steps towards doing something.

What does training teachers to use metal detectors do? If there is not a "response team" of some sort there then the shooting happens at the metal detector line in the morning instead of inside the school. I explained in another example if you go the metal detector route not having paid security there to work them is pointless. Also something to consider, what happens when a metal detector goes off? Are these teachers now going to pat down a minor without parental consent? A cop can get away with it, a teacher will not and that is a bunch of lawsuits waiting to happen.

Let's assume the metal detectors workout and your not getting sued for sexual harassment each week over pat downs. The issue is you still don't have a secure school because schools aren't security minded. Schools have been built historically with a large amount of doors, and while you may lock down where people are allowed to enter on normal days you can't stop them from exiting those doors. If a couple kids wanted to go through the metal detectors with nothing then let their buddy in a back door with guns there would be little metal detectors do without additional systems to stop this. Schools need to have a security minded person looking at the big picture security risks not simply throwing money at a single thing. Each school is different so a one size fits all response isn't going to fix the problems of securing schools. As I mentioned before I work in the security industry and it is apparent most schools know nothing about security.