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The point is they have limited entry points and sensitive areas are protected. Sure, anyone can walk into a bank, but not just anyone can get into more secure areas. Protecting the sensitive areas of a school should be equal to protecting the sensitive areas of a bank. Protect the kids like banks do the money. Just don't give them what they want and worry about catching them later.How can you not grasp the differences? Anyone can walk into a bank, they are physically much smaller, with one primary large space, the focus of the security is to protect the money because that bad guys are going after, they are not going in there to kill people. The security policy is also to just give them what they want and try to catch them later.
When was the last time you were in a courthouse? Or a major Federal facility in Washington DC? I'm well aware that every government building in the country isn't equipped with the same level of security. Again, the point is to at least make some attempt to have a more secure facility. Heck, I'd be happy with something that tried to be like the TSA but applied to schools. That would at least be a start to trying to secure schools.My comment was in response to your statement "I want them to be as protected as banks and every government building in the country" I was only pointing out how that stating EVERY government building vastly oversimplifies the reality to the point your statement becomes meaningless. In fact public schools are protected in a manner exactly like a government building because they are government buildings.
Fair enough.The purpose of my comments is not to play semantic games or be insulting at all, although I realize my attempts to lighten my tone with bad humor and stupid pop references often gets in my own way. My intent is to get down to a more meaningful level of discussion that this topic deserves . Nothing about this is easy and everyone wants the same thing, the more we can get down to sharing thoughts on those real world complexities the more chance there will be at progress.
Everyone complains about how it has been determined that cops have no responsibility to protect us . . . and point out the major failures in their responses to school shootings. I'm aware that SROs are cops. But how many of them are dedicated to ONLY school security? And who are they employed by? If they're not school employees that needs to change. Schools should be hiring dedicated security who aren't cops.Those guys that stopped the kid are cops bro, most likely only armed with handguns at the time. They are school resource officers, law enforcement officers with specific training to work in schools. That training is not just combat related but equally or more importantly focused on being an active, positive presence in the school and building positive relationships with the kids. I don't know much about how they stopped him, but it seems like that would be valuable for other law enforcement agencies to understand.
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