"Authorities arrested O'Connor at the school, where he was found carrying marijuana and a knife. During his arrest, the student managed to slip one of his hands out of the handcuffs and tried to run from police, kicking an officer during the attempted escape."
???? I thought that sh*t was supposed to make you "mellow"? He must have bought the crap LHCA pushes.
But GOOD FOR HER! I wish more people did what this lady has done.
Next we will see the bowlibs criticize her for spying and not letting the wack job express himself and proclaim the would be shooter is a victim of the NRA and MAGA.
Damn. It blows me away that there are kids out there that glorify mass shootings. My fear is that there are more than we believe. Schools and administrators better start securing their schools a bit better. I don't think this ends here. There has been 8 school shootings so far this year and it's not even been a full two months yet.
I fear you are correct Jim. If I had a kid in school I'd pull them out right now and home school them unless the school they went to immediately had armed security brought in, AND security scanners for all entering the building.
Foxbo - I teach at a school with just under 600 kids K-12 all on the same campus. We have 10 buildings dating from 1943 to 2005 (11 counting the bus barn). We also have a city street running through the middle of campus and another that divides a couple of buildings. On any given day, elementary students will have to access at least 2 of the buildings, and up to 5 or 6 depending on the schedule. High school students, at least 4 every day sometimes 8 depending on their classes. We keep the doors locked and have cameras and an armed resource officer (who is also our head tech and maintenance guy). Most of our kids are poverty level according to the government. Metal detectors and armed guards in each building are not an option. Even if we could afford the metal detectors, Getting the kids through them at each class change would not be practical time wise. We do the best we can but even if guards and metal detectors were an option, it is still not going to stop the madness, we must depend on situational awareness, and that of course is not foolproof either.
Salagi is correct in that locking doors and using metal detectors is not as easy to implement as it may sound.
To what he wrote add that there are people (adults and students) accessing various parts of the building before and after school as well as on weekends. Teachers work early and late, sports and other school activities (and their practices) often keep the buildings occupied in one way or another for 18 or more hours a day.
I am not sure why locking doors and adding metal detectors is so difficult. Buying a wand to scan with is relatively cheap and setting up a set of doors to secure the school is not overly expensive either. This may be only a small deterrent but I think it is important to do this along with mental health screening and rebuilding the nuclear family. I have no idea how you go about the last 2 but I would start with getting rid of liberals in government.
One of the original school shootings happened in my hometown at my high school. All of the schools have increased security measures such as locking doors and the middle schools and high schools all have hand held scanning every day. This is not an affluent county by any means either as at least 20% of persons are living below the poverty level. The mean income per capita is about $19000.
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My wife just contacted me and said the schools are on lockdown due to a shooting at the local Taco Bell. Crazy!
"I am not sure why locking doors and adding metal detectors is so difficult. Buying a wand to scan with is relatively cheap and setting up a set of doors to secure the school is not overly expensive either. "
You must not have read what Salagi posted. It is definitely not as simple as it seems it should be.
I also worked at a school with two streets running through campus. We had kids crossing public streets many times every day.
No. I read it. Locks are very simple. Is it perfect? No. But just like today, kids were in class and local law enforcement contacts school for a lockdown. They locked down.
Supposedly a co owner of a smoke shop walks in and murders the other Co owner while eating at Taco Bell. Doors were locked and in theory nobody could get in. Just saying that we have many buildings and it would be difficult is not a great excuse. I live in Podunk Kentucky, if we can do something to make our schools safer anyone can.
Bowfreak - we do lock the doors as I said. At class change we monitor the doors, between classes they ring a doorbell to get in the buildings. I'm responsible for letting them in my building. The logistics of the metal detectors and armed guards for each building are what I was addressing as impractical in our situation (in a podunk town too).