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9/11 changed security at airports forever. Why don’t schools have the same measures?

Posted on 5/25/22 at 7:57 pm
Posted by lsudat10
Lexington, KY
Member since Mar 2010
2743 posts
Posted on 5/25/22 at 7:57 pm
Airports were easily accessible, and were not secure enough. That permanently changed in 2001 after terrorists used them to commit a mass murder. If you’ve been in an airport pre and post 9/11, you understand. We all agreed that security needed to be tremendously improved. Sure it sucks sometimes, and the TSA can sometimes be nitwits. However, we all have seen footage of the carnage on that Tuesday morning in September. Thanks to increased airport security, an airplane takeover isn’t something I fear anymore. It was obvious that security needed to change, due to the fact they are easy, sitting targets.

When are we going to acknowledge that our children, who legally must attend school, are easy, sitting targets? Do we not have enough data? Are there not enough patterns? Do 3,000 children need to die at once?

Drastically increasing security at our public schools is the only answer I see as being obvious. Our kids will have to adapt, like the rest of the traveling world did after 9/11.

Create jobs for our veterans to be armed guards, one way in and out of each public school building, etc.

Why is this a bad idea?
Posted by OMLandshark
Member since Apr 2009
109147 posts
Posted on 5/25/22 at 7:58 pm to
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Why is this a bad idea?


Have you been to an airport recently?
Posted by Abstract Queso Dip
Member since Mar 2021
5878 posts
Posted on 5/25/22 at 7:59 pm to
It has some. In the 70s you had a gun rack on the back window of your truck. Not the same now. They now have resource officers.
This post was edited on 5/25/22 at 7:59 pm
Posted by LNCHBOX
70448
Member since Jun 2009
84319 posts
Posted on 5/25/22 at 7:59 pm to
They miss something like 97% of contraband. Great use of resources
Posted by Sun God
Member since Jul 2009
44874 posts
Posted on 5/25/22 at 8:00 pm to
Let’s have checkpoints at every state line too
Posted by BuddyRoeaux
Northshore
Member since Jun 2019
2699 posts
Posted on 5/25/22 at 8:00 pm to
You really want a TSA agent dillying with your daughter? Just think of what will happen at school.
Posted by Kato
Sec 102
Member since Nov 2006
2783 posts
Posted on 5/25/22 at 8:00 pm to
I agree, and good point
Posted by NakaTrash
Texas Hill Country
Member since Dec 2013
6139 posts
Posted on 5/25/22 at 8:00 pm to
Don’t know.
But I suggest everyone who cares about their kids make the sacrifices necessary to homeschool.
This post was edited on 5/25/22 at 8:02 pm
Posted by LSU fan 246
Member since Oct 2005
90567 posts
Posted on 5/25/22 at 8:01 pm to
This board is unreadable this week
Posted by BigDawg0420
Hamsterdam
Member since Apr 2010
7398 posts
Posted on 5/25/22 at 8:05 pm to
quote:

Why don’t schools have the same measures?


Because we can’t afford that after sending 40 billion to Ukraine. C’mon man.
Posted by John Cocktosten
Everywhere and Nowhere
Member since May 2016
337 posts
Posted on 5/25/22 at 8:07 pm to
An average of 500,000 travel by airline each day in America. LINK

Approximately 77 million students are in schools. LINK

Big difference in coverage there.

Put another way.

5217 public airports in America. LINK

130,930 schools in America. LINK

Posted by Oilfieldbiology
Member since Nov 2016
37585 posts
Posted on 5/25/22 at 8:08 pm to
Wasn’t there some study that TSA caught only 30% of the weapons coming through?

It’s a giant waste of money. It would be an even bigger waste at schools.
This post was edited on 5/25/22 at 8:09 pm
Posted by wfallstiger
Wichita Falls, Texas
Member since Jun 2006
11593 posts
Posted on 5/25/22 at 8:13 pm to
Schools in our area of North Texas are anything but come on in. .pretty darn regulated
Posted by IAmNERD
Member since May 2017
19316 posts
Posted on 5/25/22 at 8:14 pm to
quote:

9/11 changed security at airports forever. Why don’t schools have the same measures?

Columbine happened well before 9/11 and the vast majority of schools, if not all, implemented new procedures to try and keep violent mass shooters out of the schools in the US.

So I'm not really sure where you are getting this talking point that schools weren't doing anything or didn't do enough...
Posted by Oilfieldbiology
Member since Nov 2016
37585 posts
Posted on 5/25/22 at 8:16 pm to
quote:

9/11 changed security at airports forever. Why don’t schools have the same measures?


I can’t believe this just occurred to me:

9/11 threatened politicians
School shootings do not

Look at the reactions to the actual riots and insurrections throughout 2020 and the Jam 6 protest
Posted by mattz1122
Member since Oct 2007
52882 posts
Posted on 5/25/22 at 8:19 pm to
We need to arm and train are hall monitors
Posted by aTmTexas Dillo
East Texas Lake
Member since Sep 2018
15236 posts
Posted on 5/25/22 at 8:20 pm to
It's an attempt at a solution. I appreciate that you are thinking it through.
Posted by DavidTheGnome
Monroe
Member since Apr 2015
29234 posts
Posted on 5/25/22 at 8:20 pm to
Because they aren’t necessary and people overreacting are going to cause lots of unnecessary trouble.
Posted by 777Tiger
Member since Mar 2011
73856 posts
Posted on 5/25/22 at 8:21 pm to
Believe it or not the security policy at the time of 911, if adhered to, would have prevented the terrorists from boarding the aircraft armed with the box cutters. As much or more destructive weapons slip by TSA ever fricking day.
Posted by TDsngumbo
Alpha Silverfox
Member since Oct 2011
41739 posts
Posted on 5/25/22 at 8:23 pm to
For the life of me, I’ll never understand why posts like these get so many downvotes. Get the frick out of the way of your own self righteousness and admit that strict security at soft targets like schools is needed. I guarantee if it happens to your kid at their school 100% of you would wish they had hardcore security.

Some of y’all are fricking retarded.
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