Or we could you know, reduce the number of guns. Wonder who the investors are in these school “safety” companies.
I’m all for gun control. As in, significant reforms, nationwide reforms. Real background checks. Limits on the types of guns. Insurance requirements. Safety training requirements. The list can keep on going…
That said, I’d still want an emergency alert system in schools. There are other threats and other situations where it could be needed, there is nothing wrong with having both.
Could distract us from the real solution and delay it further
Perfect shouldn’t be the enemy of good.
It will take a lot longer to get proper gun control in place in the US. We’ve already got the GOP and their “Well it sucks, but too bad, move on” rhetoric going.
There is no reason not to minimize risk during the time it will take, even to get to where we we were 20 years ago.
Which do you think is easier, getting a system like this installed in a school, or changing US gun culture?
For the US, I think it would be so slow at catching up to more developed standards of gun control that it would be generational and not a matter of years. It’s not so much the laws that are currently in place that’s the issue, it’s the lack of regulation that’s created such an ingrained culture that’s going to take a long time to evolve. So, technology like this would stil definitely be utilised in the future.
My thoughts, anyway.
And honestly, I didn’t even realise there was another school shooting in the US. Internationally, I guess it just gets covered less and less because it’s not really “news” anymore.
I don’t think it even made the news here in NZ, if it did it was just one brief story.
Mass shootings are a matter of routine in the states.
I first saw it on salon under a story about Steve Doocy being an idiot. They barely make the news in the US unless there’s some extra aspect that makes it unusual.
Hmmm, one involves fleecing school district funding in a grift, the other reduces profits to armaments manufacturers.
I really can’t figure this out! How is it possible to know?
How is this a grift? The system worked as intended, did it not?
And yes, changing the culture and mentality of an entire nation is the harder option. Do you really think otherwise?
Yes, let’s spend money on a system that only helps people in a specific set of buildings only during specific parts of the day and year when the buildings are occupied, rather than doing anything that would help society at large, at all times and anywhere in the country.
Like I said, it’s impossible to know what the right thing to do here, much less actually do it.
You genuinely are an utter moron.
I’m sure that’s a comfort to the families of the two kids who died and the two adults who died.
Make sure to tell them that everything will be fine now across the nation since there will be panic alarm systems instead of, you know, FIXING THE FUCKING GUN PROBLEM IN THE FIRST PLACE.
The price of freedom: murdered children.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/freedom-index-by-country
Sounds like we got scammed there too.
GOOD! These Alarms that are only used AFTER CHILDREN HAVE BEEN KILLED will Protect Our Children from being Killed!
The caps lock makes this sound like a Boomer Facebook post.
Check out their profile, it’s quite literally their only schtick.
It’s pretty basic formatting to put emphasis on specific words.
Gov Abbott already gave law enforcement a verbal handjob for standing around while 20 people were murdered. If we can’t get our numbers down to that of other civilized nations then we’re utter failures at keeping our citizens safe.
I like these badges, and want them for my school. First, we absolutely need better gun laws and need to change the gun culture in the United States. But even the school shooter stuff aside, we have 700 elementary kids at my school. Several are prone to seizures. Several are diabetic. MANY have life threatening allergies. Several have disabilities (or poor parenting/lack of resources at home) that leave them prone to outbursts that at a minimum disrupt the classroom and at most endanger the safety of the other students. We do not have enough walkies to give one to every teacher who has a severe need in their classroom. That leaves the option of calling the front office or going to the wall and pushing the call button for the office to respond. Badges like this can help so many stressful situations, and eliminate the excessive amount of chatter on a walkie.
