What do you think about this? Should the government allow money for door framed metal detectors? I asked this to be done after the Columbine shootings and they didn’t care!
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I think we should all bear arms. If we start protecting ourselves against this kind of violence, maybe they will think twice before doing it again.
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While that would certainly be nice, metal detectors are fairly expensive, and quite a few schools would probably be hesitant to fork over that much money. Besides, students carry around so many metal objects anyway that it would be a major hassle. Imagine having to remove your keys, cell phone, wallet, iPod, and so on every time you entered a building. That would cause a major uproar.
I think the bigger issue is the poor method they used to inform students of the first shooting at Virginia Tech. From the reports I’ve read, they just sent out an E-mail. Now, I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m a college student, and I almost never check my E-mail before going to class. Many days there simply isn’t time to do that.
There have been suggestions of installing public announcement systems in college campuses, and that sounds reasonable to me. While some students might be wary of the idea, as someone could conceivably blast messages into their room at any time, I think it would be fine if the PA was designated as “emergency-only.”
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we are getting a little paranoid and this proves it..we cannot dictate or legislate safety for all the people all the time..
maybe in a private school this would be OK..who is going to monitor these metal detectors? would not be cost effective…
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It is not that people do not care about safety, but that it is very expensive and not feasible in an environment where there are many buildings. In a place where there is one building, then that building may have one entrance that has a metal detector and guards to check everyone who enters. If a person goes to court or to a federal building, this is the standard procedure. A college such as Virginia Tech has dozens of buildings. It would be very expensive and very time consuming to have metal detectors and guards at all the entrances to all the buildings.
Cho Seung-hui bought chains at Walmart and chained shut from the inside the 3 entrances to the Norris Hall engineering building. Then it took him 9 minutes to shoot 60 people at least 3 times each. Of those 60 people, 30 died. Finally, as the police were closing in on him, he killed himself.
In 2002, at the Appalachian School of Law, Peter Odighizuwa, a disgruntled student, shot and killed Dean Anthony Sutin and professor Dale Rubin. At the first sound of gunfire, fellow students Tracy Bridges and Mikael Gross, unbeknownst to each other, ran to their vehicles to fetch their personally owned firearms. The two students were able to subdue and apprehend Odigizuwa.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachian_School_of_Law_shooting.
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