northernbird wrote:rtk wrote:My daughter works as an administrator in a school with high risk students in the metro. Ther are metal detectors at the door and a couple of police officers on staff full time. When I heard that district in Fla. was going to clear back packs and "maybe" metal detectors, I was floored...What in the heck don't theses people get? I go to a Wild game and they wand me! I am just dumbfounded...
That's what bothers me. We put 30,000 people through wands and metal detectors at each pro sports game or concert, and our kids sit in a cracker box with someone proposing we give the kids a bucket of rocks. Wtf?!!
So does anyone have good ideas? I saw a kid in MN that made a door stop in shop class that prevents classroom doors from getting forced open.. they got a lot of orders for that.
What sort of ideas are out there for actual trained people on campuses?
My own, personal plan:
It could be organized by NRA -
All voluntary participation.
Gun Manufactures donate/ subsidize sale of personal defense weapons to school staff(including admin, teachers, janitors, maint.-anyone who might normally be on school grounds.
Ammo manufactures donate/ subsidize sale of ammo to above group
NRA instructors volunteer time for basic/ adv training...get at least free renewals from NRA, possibly even tax credit for their work
Ranges have special training times reserved for training, special perks for participants
Access to LE training facilities/ training
Local LE does tactical assessment for each building/ scenario.
Body armor securely cached about the school.
All school inhabitants are required to do 'firedrill' simulated attacks.
School staff participating get compensated for their time as do current coaches, etc.
Might have to tweak some state laws, allow limited deputization of those involved, etc
The above fits in with John Lott's data that one of the biggest deterrents to those planning/ choosing targets of a mass shooting, is the inability to determine where lies the armed resistance.
Of course, the above would require a sea change in the thinking of most school districts, as even locally the SROs are considered by many to be too oppressive.
Volunteer participation in program; no cost to school system, puts positive spin on NRA, guns, self defense
The above is only a bandaid for the real problem of too many underdisciplined, overmedicated, and unloved kids.
But it's the world we wake up in today.