Here we go again, another school shooting. This time in Texas

[dennishoddy]

Better restrictions for entering school buildings, armed officers on campus, voluntarily armed faculty and staff?
You'll probably have people leaving their gun in the bathroom, professor's pocket gun going off in class (I think both of those have happened).

Maybe some of all the above would be a start.

I saw a report on TV tonight about this subject. One pundit was saying we need to use retired police officers, ex military, etc to be enlisted for school guards, but another said that is not really the best solution as there are multiple entrances to each building as there must be in case of fire, etc. and a single or even two guards cannot cover all of them. Over 900,000 school doors in the US.
He advocated trap doors monitored by video security. Trap door being the second door cannot be opened until the first door is closed and locked. The second door can only be opened by a human monitor effectively trapping a potential shooter inside. Problem with that is in the winter with heavy clothing, concealment is simple, so do we need to go with the metal scanners used at airports in the trap doors? Hand bags and coats ran through a scanner? Possibly?
Why doesn't bidens government install these security measures vs sending 40 billion to Ukraine that is not accountable as to who gets it and where it is spent?
That 40 billion would install those doors to every entrance to every school and pay the salary's of the monitors.

 

[Okie4570]

Didn't take long for the commercials to appear.

 

[JD8]

Seems like the facts and emotions need to wash out before any "solutions" should be discussed.

 

[El Pablo]

Seems like the facts and emotions need to wash out before any "solutions" should be discussed.

That’s not the way humans work. OSA is a perfect example of that. You have wild conspiracy theories starting about Soros and liberals instead of blaming a weak mass murder.

 

[BobbyV]

The problem is the secretary who buzzes people in buzzes EVERYONE in.

That pretty much defeats the purpose . . . dang.

 

[TedKennedy]

I was listening to NPR on the road this morning. Interesting contrast.

Buffalo shooter:
"Who is the shooter? What did he post? What do we know about him?"

Uvalde shooter:
"When are we going to change gun laws? Here we interview the parent of another mass shooting...."

 

[Gadsden]

And you have people on OSA too naive to consider the possibility (especially considering what Soros with his radical ideas on gun-control and socialism along with his seemingly endless funds and the far-left have already done in the past) that they may indeed, be behind the recent rash of shootings. Instead they are quick to criticize others while interjecting their own assumptions as if they have all the answers. Fortunately it seems that, although they are very vocal, they appear to be the minority.

 

[TedKennedy]

It could be that these shooters do have something in common - mental health, and meds.

 

[Okie4570]

That’s not the way humans work. OSA is a perfect example of that. You have wild conspiracy theories starting about Soros and liberals instead of blaming a weak mass murder.

Because the normal thought process is trying to figure what makes these young men do acts such as these. When you start comparing, they all have similar stories, all leave signs on social media before hand that nobody reports, etc. Have past run ins with LE or have had mental evaluations or the family knew there could be issues. Those are all facts, nothing emotional about them. Liberals hate guns and want to take away the 2A, fact, nothing emotional about that either. Facts of how he gained access to the building aren't known, yet we know schools across the country have been working on ways to prevent entry for a decade or more, and locking the doors is step one. If we find out that he walked through an unlocked or open door...damn.

 

[HFS]

I saw a report on TV tonight about this subject. One pundit was saying we need to use retired police officers, ex military, etc to be enlisted for school guards, but another said that is not really the best solution as there are multiple entrances to each building as there must be in case of fire, etc. and a single or even two guards cannot cover all of them. Over 900,000 school doors in the US.
He advocated trap doors monitored by video security. Trap door being the second door cannot be opened until the first door is closed and locked. The second door can only be opened by a human monitor effectively trapping a potential shooter inside. Problem with that is in the winter with heavy clothing, concealment is simple, so do we need to go with the metal scanners used at airports in the trap doors? Hand bags and coats ran through a scanner? Possibly?
Why doesn't bidens government install these security measures vs sending 40 billion to Ukraine that is not accountable as to who gets it and where it is spent?
That 40 billion would install those doors to every entrance to every school and pay the salary's of the monitors.

Years ago I was flipping TV channels and on the old "Hawaii Five-O" TV show, they were afraid a witness or somebody would get assassinated at the courthouse. Some big wig was giving Steve McGarrett hell, saying "We've got to have 100 percent security!" or some such.
In one of the few realistic moments of a TV cop show, Steve McGarrett told the big wig to pound sand. He said basically "In that old court house? With all those entrances and exits? And all the windows and glass doors? NO! You build a new courthouse, designed for security, and then we'll talk about it!"
And look at courthouses today. Somebody said, we spend all that money (armed security, metal detectors, etc) to protect a bunch of lawyers.
BTW, I seem to remember reading that the punk in Newtown, Conn. weighed 112 pounds (per autopsy report, I believe). Doors were locked at the elementary school there and he shot out the glass to gain entry.