Posted on Feb 18, 2018
How do we Stop Mass Murder like That in Parkland, Florida?
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Logical, real solutions, that do not rewrite any more restrictions on our rights.
How do we Stop Mass Murder like That in Parkland, Florida?
Posted from chriswagoner.us
Firearms and Guns
Gun Control
2nd Amendment
Posted 7 y ago
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Bad people are going to do bad things. But here's some of my suggestions.
Control access to the campus grounds through a remotely controlled access point other than the beginning and end of the school day. Have law enforcement in the immediate vicinity during the obviously vulnerable times when students are entering or leaving the school grounds.
Control access to the school buildings, once the school day starts, lock all exterior doors. Direct all visitors to a single, observed, hardened entrance, that requires someone inside to remotely open the door. Teachers near exterior doors and responding fire departments should have keys to lock and unlock exterior doors as appropriate.
Teach faculty and children how to shelter in place and select hide positions that make target acquisition as difficult as possible.
Teach faculty children how to delay or fight back (with improvised weapons) if an assailant should try to access a class room.
Do not allow visitors access to the interior of the building beyond an enclosed entrapment area. Bring the authorized people they are meeting to the entrapment area.
Have a console that gives someone in the administrative office the ability to remotely lock down passageway fire doors to delay an assailant who has gained unauthorized access.
On a volunteer basis, allow teachers who have completed a locally approved, law enforcement instructed course, close combat pistol course to concealed carry. Use color of the day, programs to assist law enforcement to quickly ID armed friendlies inside.
Control access to the campus grounds through a remotely controlled access point other than the beginning and end of the school day. Have law enforcement in the immediate vicinity during the obviously vulnerable times when students are entering or leaving the school grounds.
Control access to the school buildings, once the school day starts, lock all exterior doors. Direct all visitors to a single, observed, hardened entrance, that requires someone inside to remotely open the door. Teachers near exterior doors and responding fire departments should have keys to lock and unlock exterior doors as appropriate.
Teach faculty and children how to shelter in place and select hide positions that make target acquisition as difficult as possible.
Teach faculty children how to delay or fight back (with improvised weapons) if an assailant should try to access a class room.
Do not allow visitors access to the interior of the building beyond an enclosed entrapment area. Bring the authorized people they are meeting to the entrapment area.
Have a console that gives someone in the administrative office the ability to remotely lock down passageway fire doors to delay an assailant who has gained unauthorized access.
On a volunteer basis, allow teachers who have completed a locally approved, law enforcement instructed course, close combat pistol course to concealed carry. Use color of the day, programs to assist law enforcement to quickly ID armed friendlies inside.
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Cpl Scott McCarroll
If pwr dropped and it opens doors then those wishing to do harm would set up to make sure that they had a way to do it, and in so doing create a target rich environment.
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SGT Chris Wagoner
Cpl Scott McCarroll - no matter what you do, you can never stop 100% of these. As we all know from our military background, a determined attacker, willing to die, can overcome many precautions. A car bomb, ramming a truck into the doors, and more.. but we can at least make it harder and lessen the damage.
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Cpl Scott McCarroll
I agree, the problem becomes doing so, and still keep an environment of learning rather than a sense of imprisonment. Today most campuses are multiple buildings, with parking lots for the older kids with cars. And unfortunately we seem to choose the lowest bidder when looking at things like this. You know when I was in the 9th grade in Midland Texas we were bused to school, now thinking on that course, using the bus could be the first line of defense, with those who are driven to school having to go through a gate. Or the students being dropped at some kind of out building where they could do like airport security, multiple scanners and magnetometer for the students. However my high school was in an area that trying to fence it in would be a nightmare. I think that these are the discussions that need to be happening.
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Maj John Bell
Cpl Scott McCarroll - What works great at one campus may be ineffective or physically impossible at another. But there is no shortage of physical security experts who can come up with acceptable hardening strategies for almost any lucrative target. A business opportunity...? I think so.
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SGT Chris Wagoner
Oh, that is part of the long-term solution. Psychotropic drugs have been found in most of the Active murderers in recent history. My article is the short term, quick and easy fixes.
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