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Originally Posted by GoodLife
There are over 100,000 schools in the USA. Anyone care to guess the cost to "harden" each and every one? Sounds good until the tax bill comes due. Guess who will pay?
You could harden every school in America at a cost of billions or trillions. Then the psychopaths will just attack other soft spots like bus stops, malls etc.
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Well, you must admit that designating schools as "gun free zones" has not gotten the job done.
Your solution would be..........?
Simple hardening would not be as expensive as you contemplate. It could be simply locking all exterior doors of the school building, with alarm devices on the doors and closed circuit television on the doors. CCTV is commonplace in schools now. The doors already have locks on them.
The responsibility for hardening each school lies with the local school district. In Hillsborough County (Tampa) our high schools have had on duty law enforcement officers (School Resource Deputies) for
decades. The Sheriff's Office is in the process of expanding this program to include middle and elementary schools with contracted security officers who have Florida certification as Law Enforcement Officers.
Like it or not, this is the future of school security. We will get accustomed to it, just as we got accustomed to long lines and taking off our shoes at airport security checkpoints.