Mass shootings

[Benton]

(02-16-2018, 09:26 AM)Au165 Wrote: 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.

Then... hire a security guard. Or four.

In the case of Marshall, there’s a paid security guard and a sheriffs deputy. They were both in the sign in shack in the parking lot during the shooting.about 200 yards away and outside where the shooting occurred.

There’s not one thing that’s going to work, but it drives me crazy people brush off metal detectors, largely because of cost (it’s miniscule compared to our tax revenues) or the number of doors (in many cases, they funnel kids into a small number of doors these days anyway).