Gun violence serves the political agenda, Money for prevention trickles down to nothing another cash cow Our High School locked the doors on the large parking lot side because the other side (main office) has the one camara but my granddaughter told me just go thru the bus garage its always open
when I was in HS smokers would duck out to catch a smoke , school locked the doors but fire code states you have to have every door accessible form inside ,, so they waved at someone passing the door who let them in or stuck a note book in the door so it stayed un latched that was >30 years ago
even at that doors mean nothing several shooters just shoot the glass out of the door and let themselves in up side it lets people know they are coming
people want to pay lip service to taking measures but unless your measures are cameras on every door that are actually monitored , barriers to buy time and then a response team to handle any situation and doors that will hold for more than a few seconds.
school shootings as much as you hear about them are actually very few some quick numbers tallied up there appear to be about 250K schools public , private preK through college even if we just go K-12 public and private your looking at around150K actual school events is actually very low.
https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=84for 2022 the FBI reported in their annual report 61 active shooter events 4 of those took place in schools sort of 1 was a school bus being shot at while picking up students.
3 where at schools 2 had deaths the Uvalde shooting made for higher than normal deaths 23 people were killed in 2022 at education facilities other than Uvalde there were 2 deaths at a school in 2022 from active shooters.
https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/active-shooter-incidents-in-the-us-2022-042623.pdf/viewthe average of student athlete sudden cardiac event deaths during a sport event or practice averages 55 a year in physician checked athletes with no prior condition.
https://newsroom.heart.org/news/nca...r-20-years-still-higher-in-some-athletes2 events with deaths in hundreds of thousands of schools so you can see when it actually comes to spending budget dollars on the issue where it probably ranks after they pay it lip service
the police response absolutely changes deaths , if we kept 2 officers within 2 minutes of every school we would probably see this significantly decreased , easiest way to do that is make an office space for officers to do paperwork, make phone calls and file reports at as many schools as possible as well as always keeping a squad within a mile of the school handling traffic enforcement or as a school resource officer
locked doors , drills , training , all good things but all part of a plan not the whole plan and the data keeps telling us the alerting and response after the call is the most crucial in number of deaths.
