We don't, but it makes headlines, so it gets done. More kids die each year in boating accidents, but you don't hear about those on the news because politicians don't profit from those headlines.

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Freedumb at any price

Round here funding for schools comes from 2 buckets. One's for running the schools, One's for constructuon of facilities. These are all approved by taxpayer bonds so you can't mix and match.

Distict my friend works for they keep building state of the art facilities and struggle to staff those schools because the build fund doesn't account for the upkeep. Meanwhile the maintenance budget ballons everytime they build a school.

What a pathetic country, rather protect the right to own a Assualt weapons than the children

Fox should be banned from all news subs.

There's a reason saferooms aren't really used outside of movies, especially with large groups of random, untrained people who aren't ready for emergencies like that. For the shooter, it actually makes a great point to hold and fall back into, as well as it conveniently gathering victims for them. Sure, no one can get in after it shuts (assuming it was made by someone intelligent, and built correctly), which tells me after the first handful of people get there they'll be terrified/panicking and such the door most likely anyway.

Pretty sure a bulletproof room also just conveniently gathers victims. Either everyone's going to know the code to get in including the aggressor/shooter, or no one will know it but a few people will know and the room will simply not be effectively used.

After reading the article...

>Once the door is secured, no one can access it from the outside.

Great, so the first person who gets there will probably be terrified, shut the door, and everyone else with run to the door not realizing it's already closed/locked. Or the shooter might prioritize going to that room and using it as a fallback/safety point by shutting themselves in.

This is just a non-solution, stuff like this never works out well when you're depending on a bunch of random, terrified people and children to use it correctly. Also apparently assuming the aggressor/shooter will magically not know the room exists or target it specifically. Since it's not about keeping kids safe, I'd imagine either a "friend" is getting a contract to build it, or it's some dumb political move by someone who should never lead or be in office.

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"Would you believe I the local politicians have a relative or business associate that could totally do the job at a better bid than all the other applicants?" - Guy who got elected because he has an R next to his name, probably.

I had the same thought, I even looked at the definition to make sure I wasn’t losing my mind

>>A pilot program, also called a feasibility study or experimental trial, is a small-scale, short-term experiment that helps an organization learn how a large-scale project might work in practice.

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Wait, a pilot program?

Are they hoping to evaluate its effectiveness when an actual shooter appears???

This country is so fucked.

I can see multiple ways this “shelter” would be ineffective or used by a school shooter to his advantage.

Second, I find it discomforting if someone is looking to profit from this idea.

Third….what in the actual fuck?!? That anyone would look at this idea as a salve and not a symptom of a massive problem that urgently needs a different manner of addressing gun violence.

You had a better survival rate on the ground in France or Germany than you did in the air in a bomber.

How can people think America is the greatest country in the world when we're the only country considering building safe rooms in classrooms?

It is easier to launder money through construction than teacher salaries... just sayin

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They don't want to pay teachers.

This though, there's plenty of money for, because it lets us avoid the important discussion about whether it's actually possible for a well-regulated militia to be behind the regular shootings in school rooms.

You know we're completely fucked as a country when we need to start building saferooms in schools...

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I do understand... I don't think you understand THAT WAS ALWAYS THE PLAN. They smuggle the pigeon OUT of the prison by whatever means they have, then it gets loaded full of drugs and flies back into the prison. If the guards catch it and release the damn thing, it flies back to the prison and they can smuggle it out to load up with drugs again. This will continue happening for as long as the pigeon is alive. If you don't kill the pigeon, now you're playing pigeon games forever.

I don't think you understand. That pigeon doesn't take drugs out of the prison it takes them in. It will only fly back to the prison if it is taken away from it. If it isn't taken away from the prison it won't be used to smuggle drugs.