Lion in Winter

It seems to be quite the trend.

mrken30

I was thinking about how cheap and easy video surveillance and other surveillance equipment is these days. Was there video cameras at the school? If there had been, maybe they would have known that the shooter was approaching, they would have certainly known the guy was in the school. Why is there such opposition to video cameras?

kimilseung

You would need to have a dedicated watcher, at least two people really to cover breaks, bathroom breaks and lunch breaks, holidays. thats a lot of money.

scrubbedexpat099

Facial recognition?

kimilseung

Probably not in a school, as youth love them their hoodies, and corridors are packed at change over time. It would only work at a school with head covering rules and with one building (no school that I can think of) with only one entrance to that school, with some kind of calming door system to spread people out. So it would also have to be a small school, which might make cost all the more of an issue.

mrken30

If you really wanted to save money, you could have 3 or 4 people covering the whole school district probably from a central monitoring facility. Then if there is an incident, they could probably locate the shooter within minutes, if not seconds.

If I was able to tell when my chicken sitter did not put my chickens away before 8pm from 1500 miles away, I'm sure similar technology is available to everyone. I got notified within a 2 seconds when she crossed the threshold set on the first camera.

They are used in many shopping areas in the UK, much busier than a school field and can locate people very quickly.

mrken30

I think teachers should be banned from schools.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ca...ent/ar-BBKbTPI

Giantaxe

And another:

https://www.alexandriava.gov/police/...aspx?id=102771

But, yeh, let's arm teachers. What could possibly go wrong?

Octang Frye

OUTRAGEOUS!

scrubbedexpat099

I seem to remember Chainsaws coming up and here is a current news item:

Surveillance video shows Lantana chainsaw attack suspect struggle with police officer
Juan Carlos Cabrera Jr. arrested after using chainsaw as weapon to cut woman


https://www.local10.com/news/crime/s...police-officer

Octang Frye

It's so strange to see these children (albeit being manipulated by the Left) protesting to have civil rights taken away by the government.
Looking at all the protests in the past (and strikes which are the real instrument of change) which were for expanding rights - not curtailing them.
The Constitution and the Bill of Rights are bad.
What a bizarro world.

Giantaxe

Ah, the Bolier and Octang show... always good for a laugh.

zzrmark

A good leftie knows the difference between civil rights and political rights, please try to use the correct term.

Octang Frye

Yep, Boiler, Benk and I, fighting the good fight to secure *your* rights.
You're welcome.

Nutmegger

I think these thoughtful young people are protecting their rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I applaud them.