02-22-2018, 03:47 PM
^ I don't think that's as easy as you and Maggot contend, Six. I don't necessarily object, but just think people need to consider it realistically.
The Florida Parkside community is more well off than most financially and the school was considered very well prepared.
The Stoneman Douglas campus did have regular drills, locks (that's why some teachers and students died re-opening and holding doors for kids stuck in the hallways), fences with one entry point, trained staff, and an armed security guard from the sheriff's department. Sheriff Israel confirmed yesterday that his guard was in fact on campus, but did not encounter the shooter.
I still don't know why the armed guard never encountered Cruz when the two unarmed teachers who served as resource officers did encounter him. In any case, the Sheriff also said there will be more armed police at the school moving forward and they will be carrying semi-automatic rifles, not handguns.
Anyway, you have to lock and unlock the doors at some point so people can enter in the morning and leave in the afternoon. The idea of someone waiting outside the school for all the kids to start pouring out at the end of the day and picking them off with a semi-automatic is awful, but it could certainly happen even if a shooter didn't infiltrate the school.
Financially..........a lot of schools barely have enough budget to pay teachers and teach kids properly as it is and, sadly, it's not the highest priority of the states or the fed. And, kids in a poor rural Mississippi high school shouldn't be less protected than kids attending school in a Florida suburb, in my opinion.
So, if turning schools into high security armed facilities is one part of the solution, it might need to be handled (at least partially) at the federal level to ensure consistency and funding. However, the country is already in major debt so it would take a real change in priorities regarding how taxes are spent. Maybe it could be tied into the national infrastructure rebuilding proposal and funding?
The Florida Parkside community is more well off than most financially and the school was considered very well prepared.
The Stoneman Douglas campus did have regular drills, locks (that's why some teachers and students died re-opening and holding doors for kids stuck in the hallways), fences with one entry point, trained staff, and an armed security guard from the sheriff's department. Sheriff Israel confirmed yesterday that his guard was in fact on campus, but did not encounter the shooter.
I still don't know why the armed guard never encountered Cruz when the two unarmed teachers who served as resource officers did encounter him. In any case, the Sheriff also said there will be more armed police at the school moving forward and they will be carrying semi-automatic rifles, not handguns.
Anyway, you have to lock and unlock the doors at some point so people can enter in the morning and leave in the afternoon. The idea of someone waiting outside the school for all the kids to start pouring out at the end of the day and picking them off with a semi-automatic is awful, but it could certainly happen even if a shooter didn't infiltrate the school.
Financially..........a lot of schools barely have enough budget to pay teachers and teach kids properly as it is and, sadly, it's not the highest priority of the states or the fed. And, kids in a poor rural Mississippi high school shouldn't be less protected than kids attending school in a Florida suburb, in my opinion.
So, if turning schools into high security armed facilities is one part of the solution, it might need to be handled (at least partially) at the federal level to ensure consistency and funding. However, the country is already in major debt so it would take a real change in priorities regarding how taxes are spent. Maybe it could be tied into the national infrastructure rebuilding proposal and funding?