How’s this for school security?

I fail to see how cameras stop someone intent on quick murder, and a 10 minute response is still too long IMO.

Agree. Although the intention of beefing up security seems intuitively good, there would be unintended consequences such as more in-depth planned attacks (ie killing everyone intended in less than 3 minutes), partnership shootings (2-3 shooters vs. 1-2 guards). More guns in the school doesn’t mean it’ll be safer unfortunately.

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I would happily pay 1% or 2% higher property taxes to pay for every school in the district to have this.

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Speak for your self. If you want to protect your kids more you can buy more candy bars, donate money, or they can get rid of any tax deductions/exemptions.

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I love how the solution to guns is always more guns. There was an armed guard in Florida and he stood outside while it went down. On top of that, if there are armed guards, you don't think the kids who plan this won't take that into account? They'll enter through another entrance, they could stash the weapons in lockers, a whole multitude of things that prob won't save many lives. On top of that, let's say the guards do go in and find him, he takes a classroom hostage and now what?

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If a mass murderer even thinks for a second that an armed guard has arrived, he has to at a minimum slow his entire plan down. It may not immediately stop the entire situation but he cannot just walk the halls shooting people at will any more, and if he takes a class hostage he will either have to deal with a stand down or if he starts shooting, deal with the fact that an armed guard may bust in at any second. All the while law enforcement gets more time to arrive and really deal with the shooter. Anyone who conceal carries would not be known to the shooter, which means he has to consider that every faculty member is a legit threat to him.

Of course we could take the same tack we have been, maybe even outlaw large magazines or regular rifles that "look like" assault rifles, which basically means what, the shooter has to change magazines more often, but still knows that it's against the law for anyone on campus to have a gun to oppose him with? Sounds like a great plan.

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If high schools went to online classes we'd save a fortune

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Not sure how it would save a fortune, since you'd have to provide the technology and data transfer infrastructure to every home in a district to be legally compliant. This would be a nightmare cost in large rural districts.

So you just automatically assume that this person who already isn't in their right mind is gonna just stop shooting and go "Oh no! there's an armed guard coming! I should prob quit firing and stop it"?

On top of that, this isn't the movies so don't expect some crack headshot if he is using a student as a body shield. Who's to say these armed guards don't fire and possibly hit more students, I didn't even stop to think of having a literal fire fight in the middle of a hallway.

Exactly, couldn't agree more.

Okay but stricter gun laws have a much better chance of eliminating this. Your solution would just lower the body count, which I don't have a kid but I assume even one child shot is one child too many.