(August 8, 2022 at 7:47 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:Honestly, if you put a safe with an AR-15 in every room, this is the sort of situation where your hostage hypothesis starts to make sense. Of course, you wouldn’t need to start a hostage situation. Just tell the teacher in question “I’m getting to that safe one way or another. You can either open the safe using your fingerprint or your retinal scanner while alive, or I can kill you and use your fingerprint or peel your eyes open while you’re dead.”(August 8, 2022 at 6:52 pm)onlinebiker Wrote: I don' t see why it needs to be a rifle.
A .38 special revolver would be fine. In close quarters -15 meters or so - any full sized handgun would be fine. Loaded with glazier bullets to control overpenetration.
They could mount a biometric safe in each room of the school with approved teachers fingerprints as access.
The approved teachers should be volunteers and should get training.
It would be highly advantageous to NOT disclose which teachers do or do not have access.
When these shootings occur time is crucial. These monsters need to be disabled by whatever means are necessary ASAP. Just 5 minutes can mean dozens of deaths... This means whoever is on scene has the best chance of stopping things the quickest.
But you' d be fucked if you are unarmed.
If you have a safe in each room of the school, then ALL school personnel (not just teachers) would need to have access. For example, if there’s a gun safe in the mop cupboard, it isn’t going to do much good if the nearest ‘approved teacher’ is two corridors away. Similarly, a gun safe in a room with a non-approved teacher would be useless.
You really think all those people - cafeteria workers, administrators, janitors, etc - would volunteer?
Boru
You could argue that you’re just as dead with a revolver as with an AR-15, but I suspect that many school shooters aren’t that pragmatic. If it can be as easy as that to get more firepower, I can easily imagine that a shooter would just be thinking something like:
A revolver can kill someone as dead as an AR-15, but the AR-15 has more firepower to kill more people in less time.
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