Blake High School - incident report

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Anonymous wrote:Parents, don’t rest on “can’t secure all the doors.”

Yes they can and they must!

For decades, emergency doors had alarms when opened.

And there are motion sensor cameras even for private use so they can certainly adapt for door coverage.

Demand safety. At minimum, start with wiring done at the schools to protect the students.

No, they can't. Or at least they can't without giving a lot of money to companies that sell "security", and turning a school building into a high-security building. I think education funding should go to education, not to the "security" industry.

Do you work at a public high school? Have you sat in the corner of your classroom with 29 high schoolers during regularly scheduled active shooter drills? If no, then be quiet. If yes, then you are ignorant and don’t care about student safety.

Tell me something… every important building, like The White House or a Smithsonian, has emergency alarms on their non-main entrance. The church I grew up in—in a very rural area— had these as well. Please tell me, do these buildings feel like a prison to you? Or do we, as a society, think this is “prison-like”? No. We see it as a realistic safety measure to protect valuable things.

Lack of security and enforcement proves the argument that MCPS does NOT care about students or see them or their safety as valuable.

Yes.

Apparently you've forgotten what life in the US was like, before the era of mass shootings at churches and movie theaters and synagogues and grocery stores and concerts and schools and big box stores and parades and and and and and.

If only the far-right GOP would stop blocking common-sense gun reform.

You mean like confiscating all guns so that only the police and criminals have guns? No thanks.

or at least checking to see that a buyer isn't mentally ill or a known criminal.

That is already a requirement.

It isn't in most places.

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Anonymous wrote:Parents, don’t rest on “can’t secure all the doors.”

Yes they can and they must!

For decades, emergency doors had alarms when opened.

And there are motion sensor cameras even for private use so they can certainly adapt for door coverage.

Demand safety. At minimum, start with wiring done at the schools to protect the students.

No, they can't. Or at least they can't without giving a lot of money to companies that sell "security", and turning a school building into a high-security building. I think education funding should go to education, not to the "security" industry.

Do you work at a public high school? Have you sat in the corner of your classroom with 29 high schoolers during regularly scheduled active shooter drills? If no, then be quiet. If yes, then you are ignorant and don’t care about student safety.

Tell me something… every important building, like The White House or a Smithsonian, has emergency alarms on their non-main entrance. The church I grew up in—in a very rural area— had these as well. Please tell me, do these buildings feel like a prison to you? Or do we, as a society, think this is “prison-like”? No. We see it as a realistic safety measure to protect valuable things.

Lack of security and enforcement proves the argument that MCPS does NOT care about students or see them or their safety as valuable.

Yes.

Apparently you've forgotten what life in the US was like, before the era of mass shootings at churches and movie theaters and synagogues and grocery stores and concerts and schools and big box stores and parades and and and and and.

If only the far-right GOP would stop blocking common-sense gun reform.

You mean like confiscating all guns so that only the police and criminals have guns? No thanks.

That’s not what anyone is suggesting. Common sense gun reform doesn’t mean no guns. It means make them harder to get. Nothing wrong with that.

OMG stop providing facts! You're ruining my false narrative!

Fact: progressives hate guns and, if it wasn't for that pesky 2nd Amendment, would be lobbying for total gun confiscation.

Don't know about that, but I get tired of reading about another daily mass shooting committed by some nutjob who would never be issued a firearm if there was common sense oversight.

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Anonymous wrote:Parents, don’t rest on “can’t secure all the doors.”

Yes they can and they must!

For decades, emergency doors had alarms when opened.

And there are motion sensor cameras even for private use so they can certainly adapt for door coverage.

Demand safety. At minimum, start with wiring done at the schools to protect the students.

No, they can't. Or at least they can't without giving a lot of money to companies that sell "security", and turning a school building into a high-security building. I think education funding should go to education, not to the "security" industry.

Do you work at a public high school? Have you sat in the corner of your classroom with 29 high schoolers during regularly scheduled active shooter drills? If no, then be quiet. If yes, then you are ignorant and don’t care about student safety.

Tell me something… every important building, like The White House or a Smithsonian, has emergency alarms on their non-main entrance. The church I grew up in—in a very rural area— had these as well. Please tell me, do these buildings feel like a prison to you? Or do we, as a society, think this is “prison-like”? No. We see it as a realistic safety measure to protect valuable things.

Lack of security and enforcement proves the argument that MCPS does NOT care about students or see them or their safety as valuable.

Yes.

Apparently you've forgotten what life in the US was like, before the era of mass shootings at churches and movie theaters and synagogues and grocery stores and concerts and schools and big box stores and parades and and and and and.

If only the far-right GOP would stop blocking common-sense gun reform.

You mean like confiscating all guns so that only the police and criminals have guns? No thanks.

or at least checking to see that a buyer isn't mentally ill or a known criminal.

That is already a requirement.

It isn't in most places.

False. It's federal law.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Parents, don’t rest on “can’t secure all the doors.”

Yes they can and they must!

For decades, emergency doors had alarms when opened.

And there are motion sensor cameras even for private use so they can certainly adapt for door coverage.

Demand safety. At minimum, start with wiring done at the schools to protect the students.

No, they can't. Or at least they can't without giving a lot of money to companies that sell "security", and turning a school building into a high-security building. I think education funding should go to education, not to the "security" industry.

Do you work at a public high school? Have you sat in the corner of your classroom with 29 high schoolers during regularly scheduled active shooter drills? If no, then be quiet. If yes, then you are ignorant and don’t care about student safety.

Tell me something… every important building, like The White House or a Smithsonian, has emergency alarms on their non-main entrance. The church I grew up in—in a very rural area— had these as well. Please tell me, do these buildings feel like a prison to you? Or do we, as a society, think this is “prison-like”? No. We see it as a realistic safety measure to protect valuable things.

Lack of security and enforcement proves the argument that MCPS does NOT care about students or see them or their safety as valuable.

Yes.

Apparently you've forgotten what life in the US was like, before the era of mass shootings at churches and movie theaters and synagogues and grocery stores and concerts and schools and big box stores and parades and and and and and.

If only the far-right GOP would stop blocking common-sense gun reform.

You mean like confiscating all guns so that only the police and criminals have guns? No thanks.

That’s not what anyone is suggesting. Common sense gun reform doesn’t mean no guns. It means make them harder to get. Nothing wrong with that.

OMG stop providing facts! You're ruining my false narrative!

Fact: progressives hate guns and, if it wasn't for that pesky 2nd Amendment, would be lobbying for total gun confiscation.

Don't know about that, but I get tired of reading about another daily mass shooting committed by some nutjob who would never be issued a firearm if there was common sense oversight.

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OK +100, what do you propose, a gun ban?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Parents, don’t rest on “can’t secure all the doors.”

Yes they can and they must!

For decades, emergency doors had alarms when opened.

And there are motion sensor cameras even for private use so they can certainly adapt for door coverage.

Demand safety. At minimum, start with wiring done at the schools to protect the students.

No, they can't. Or at least they can't without giving a lot of money to companies that sell "security", and turning a school building into a high-security building. I think education funding should go to education, not to the "security" industry.

Do you work at a public high school? Have you sat in the corner of your classroom with 29 high schoolers during regularly scheduled active shooter drills? If no, then be quiet. If yes, then you are ignorant and don’t care about student safety.

Tell me something… every important building, like The White House or a Smithsonian, has emergency alarms on their non-main entrance. The church I grew up in—in a very rural area— had these as well. Please tell me, do these buildings feel like a prison to you? Or do we, as a society, think this is “prison-like”? No. We see it as a realistic safety measure to protect valuable things.

Lack of security and enforcement proves the argument that MCPS does NOT care about students or see them or their safety as valuable.

Yes.

Apparently you've forgotten what life in the US was like, before the era of mass shootings at churches and movie theaters and synagogues and grocery stores and concerts and schools and big box stores and parades and and and and and.

If only the far-right GOP would stop blocking common-sense gun reform.

You mean like confiscating all guns so that only the police and criminals have guns? No thanks.

or at least checking to see that a buyer isn't mentally ill or a known criminal.

That is already a requirement.

It isn't in most places.

False. It's federal law.

Apparently not since Dems have been trying to pass common sense gun laws for years, but the GOP blocks it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Parents, don’t rest on “can’t secure all the doors.”

Yes they can and they must!

For decades, emergency doors had alarms when opened.

And there are motion sensor cameras even for private use so they can certainly adapt for door coverage.

Demand safety. At minimum, start with wiring done at the schools to protect the students.

No, they can't. Or at least they can't without giving a lot of money to companies that sell "security", and turning a school building into a high-security building. I think education funding should go to education, not to the "security" industry.

Do you work at a public high school? Have you sat in the corner of your classroom with 29 high schoolers during regularly scheduled active shooter drills? If no, then be quiet. If yes, then you are ignorant and don’t care about student safety.

Tell me something… every important building, like The White House or a Smithsonian, has emergency alarms on their non-main entrance. The church I grew up in—in a very rural area— had these as well. Please tell me, do these buildings feel like a prison to you? Or do we, as a society, think this is “prison-like”? No. We see it as a realistic safety measure to protect valuable things.

Lack of security and enforcement proves the argument that MCPS does NOT care about students or see them or their safety as valuable.

Yes.

Apparently you've forgotten what life in the US was like, before the era of mass shootings at churches and movie theaters and synagogues and grocery stores and concerts and schools and big box stores and parades and and and and and.

If only the far-right GOP would stop blocking common-sense gun reform.

You mean like confiscating all guns so that only the police and criminals have guns? No thanks.

or at least checking to see that a buyer isn't mentally ill or a known criminal.

That is already a requirement.

It isn't in most places.

False. It's federal law.

Apparently not since Dems have been trying to pass common sense gun laws for years, but the GOP blocks it.

False.

Under 18 U.S.C. § 922(d), it is unlawful for any person to sell or otherwise dispose of any firearm or ammunition to any person knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that such person “has been adjudicated as a mental defective or has been committed to any mental institution.”

Under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), it is unlawful for a person convicted of a felony to ship, transport, receive, or possess a firearm or ammunition. The means of the transaction must have somehow affected interstate or foreign commerce for an act to violate the law.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Parents, don’t rest on “can’t secure all the doors.”

Yes they can and they must!

For decades, emergency doors had alarms when opened.

And there are motion sensor cameras even for private use so they can certainly adapt for door coverage.

Demand safety. At minimum, start with wiring done at the schools to protect the students.

No, they can't. Or at least they can't without giving a lot of money to companies that sell "security", and turning a school building into a high-security building. I think education funding should go to education, not to the "security" industry.

Do you work at a public high school? Have you sat in the corner of your classroom with 29 high schoolers during regularly scheduled active shooter drills? If no, then be quiet. If yes, then you are ignorant and don’t care about student safety.

Tell me something… every important building, like The White House or a Smithsonian, has emergency alarms on their non-main entrance. The church I grew up in—in a very rural area— had these as well. Please tell me, do these buildings feel like a prison to you? Or do we, as a society, think this is “prison-like”? No. We see it as a realistic safety measure to protect valuable things.

Lack of security and enforcement proves the argument that MCPS does NOT care about students or see them or their safety as valuable.

Yes.

Apparently you've forgotten what life in the US was like, before the era of mass shootings at churches and movie theaters and synagogues and grocery stores and concerts and schools and big box stores and parades and and and and and.

If only the far-right GOP would stop blocking common-sense gun reform.

You mean like confiscating all guns so that only the police and criminals have guns? No thanks.

or at least checking to see that a buyer isn't mentally ill or a known criminal.

That is already a requirement.

It isn't in most places.

False. It's federal law.

Apparently not since Dems have been trying to pass common sense gun laws for years, but the GOP blocks it.

False.

Under 18 U.S.C. § 922(d), it is unlawful for any person to sell or otherwise dispose of any firearm or ammunition to any person knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that such person “has been adjudicated as a mental defective or has been committed to any mental institution.”

Under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), it is unlawful for a person convicted of a felony to ship, transport, receive, or possess a firearm or ammunition. The means of the transaction must have somehow affected interstate or foreign commerce for an act to violate the law.

And you probably also know the Trump Administration did it's best to prevent this from ever happening.

Using the Congressional Review Act, Republican majorities in the House and Senate voted to revoke the rule that former President Barack Obama issued as part of a series of efforts to curb gun violence after similar measures failed to pass through Congress.

Trump signed the bill in private, without his typical public signing ceremony meant to draw attention and fanfare.

He also rolled back an attempt by the Obama administration to clarify and broaden the statutory definitions of the terms that disable individuals who had been committed to mental institutions or adjudicated as mentally incompetent from buying guns.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/15/politics/mental-health-gun-possession-explainer/index.html

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Parents, don’t rest on “can’t secure all the doors.”

Yes they can and they must!

For decades, emergency doors had alarms when opened.

And there are motion sensor cameras even for private use so they can certainly adapt for door coverage.

Demand safety. At minimum, start with wiring done at the schools to protect the students.

No, they can't. Or at least they can't without giving a lot of money to companies that sell "security", and turning a school building into a high-security building. I think education funding should go to education, not to the "security" industry.

Do you work at a public high school? Have you sat in the corner of your classroom with 29 high schoolers during regularly scheduled active shooter drills? If no, then be quiet. If yes, then you are ignorant and don’t care about student safety.

Tell me something… every important building, like The White House or a Smithsonian, has emergency alarms on their non-main entrance. The church I grew up in—in a very rural area— had these as well. Please tell me, do these buildings feel like a prison to you? Or do we, as a society, think this is “prison-like”? No. We see it as a realistic safety measure to protect valuable things.

Lack of security and enforcement proves the argument that MCPS does NOT care about students or see them or their safety as valuable.

Yes.

Apparently you've forgotten what life in the US was like, before the era of mass shootings at churches and movie theaters and synagogues and grocery stores and concerts and schools and big box stores and parades and and and and and.

If only the far-right GOP would stop blocking common-sense gun reform.

You mean like confiscating all guns so that only the police and criminals have guns? No thanks.

or at least checking to see that a buyer isn't mentally ill or a known criminal.

That is already a requirement.

It isn't in most places.

False. It's federal law.

Apparently not since Dems have been trying to pass common sense gun laws for years, but the GOP blocks it.

False.

Under 18 U.S.C. § 922(d), it is unlawful for any person to sell or otherwise dispose of any firearm or ammunition to any person knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that such person “has been adjudicated as a mental defective or has been committed to any mental institution.”

Under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), it is unlawful for a person convicted of a felony to ship, transport, receive, or possess a firearm or ammunition. The means of the transaction must have somehow affected interstate or foreign commerce for an act to violate the law.

And you probably also know the Trump Administration did it's best to prevent this from ever happening.

Using the Congressional Review Act, Republican majorities in the House and Senate voted to revoke the rule that former President Barack Obama issued as part of a series of efforts to curb gun violence after similar measures failed to pass through Congress.

Trump signed the bill in private, without his typical public signing ceremony meant to draw attention and fanfare.

He also rolled back an attempt by the Obama administration to clarify and broaden the statutory definitions of the terms that disable individuals who had been committed to mental institutions or adjudicated as mentally incompetent from buying guns.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/15/politics/mental-health-gun-possession-explainer/index.html

What does that have to do with ignorant progressives shrieking that we need more gun laws? Progressives should have a look at the existing laws and see what their dEfUnD tHe pOliCe stance has done to inncrease gun crime.

[Anonymous]

Take your debate about gun laws to the politics forum before you get this thread closed. Stay on topic.

[Anonymous]

We need more legal machine guns with hundred round capacity. The only we'll be safe!

Well, that or deer hunting. Or something.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Parents, don’t rest on “can’t secure all the doors.”

Yes they can and they must!

For decades, emergency doors had alarms when opened.

And there are motion sensor cameras even for private use so they can certainly adapt for door coverage.

Demand safety. At minimum, start with wiring done at the schools to protect the students.

No, they can't. Or at least they can't without giving a lot of money to companies that sell "security", and turning a school building into a high-security building. I think education funding should go to education, not to the "security" industry.

Do you work at a public high school? Have you sat in the corner of your classroom with 29 high schoolers during regularly scheduled active shooter drills? If no, then be quiet. If yes, then you are ignorant and don’t care about student safety.

Tell me something… every important building, like The White House or a Smithsonian, has emergency alarms on their non-main entrance. The church I grew up in—in a very rural area— had these as well. Please tell me, do these buildings feel like a prison to you? Or do we, as a society, think this is “prison-like”? No. We see it as a realistic safety measure to protect valuable things.

Lack of security and enforcement proves the argument that MCPS does NOT care about students or see them or their safety as valuable.

Yes.

Apparently you've forgotten what life in the US was like, before the era of mass shootings at churches and movie theaters and synagogues and grocery stores and concerts and schools and big box stores and parades and and and and and.

If only the far-right GOP would stop blocking common-sense gun reform.

You mean like confiscating all guns so that only the police and criminals have guns? No thanks.

or at least checking to see that a buyer isn't mentally ill or a known criminal.

That is already a requirement.

It isn't in most places.

False. It's federal law.

Apparently not since Dems have been trying to pass common sense gun laws for years, but the GOP blocks it.

False.

Under 18 U.S.C. § 922(d), it is unlawful for any person to sell or otherwise dispose of any firearm or ammunition to any person knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that such person “has been adjudicated as a mental defective or has been committed to any mental institution.”

Under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), it is unlawful for a person convicted of a felony to ship, transport, receive, or possess a firearm or ammunition. The means of the transaction must have somehow affected interstate or foreign commerce for an act to violate the law.

And you probably also know the Trump Administration did it's best to prevent this from ever happening.

Using the Congressional Review Act, Republican majorities in the House and Senate voted to revoke the rule that former President Barack Obama issued as part of a series of efforts to curb gun violence after similar measures failed to pass through Congress.

Trump signed the bill in private, without his typical public signing ceremony meant to draw attention and fanfare.

He also rolled back an attempt by the Obama administration to clarify and broaden the statutory definitions of the terms that disable individuals who had been committed to mental institutions or adjudicated as mentally incompetent from buying guns.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/15/politics/mental-health-gun-possession-explainer/index.html

Yes, sadly the mentally ill can purahce all the automatic weapons they desire because the regressive-right blocks common sense reform.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Take your debate about gun laws to the politics forum before you get this thread closed. Stay on topic.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Parents, don’t rest on “can’t secure all the doors.”

Yes they can and they must!

For decades, emergency doors had alarms when opened.

And there are motion sensor cameras even for private use so they can certainly adapt for door coverage.

Demand safety. At minimum, start with wiring done at the schools to protect the students.

No, they can't. Or at least they can't without giving a lot of money to companies that sell "security", and turning a school building into a high-security building. I think education funding should go to education, not to the "security" industry.

Do you work at a public high school? Have you sat in the corner of your classroom with 29 high schoolers during regularly scheduled active shooter drills? If no, then be quiet. If yes, then you are ignorant and don’t care about student safety.

Tell me something… every important building, like The White House or a Smithsonian, has emergency alarms on their non-main entrance. The church I grew up in—in a very rural area— had these as well. Please tell me, do these buildings feel like a prison to you? Or do we, as a society, think this is “prison-like”? No. We see it as a realistic safety measure to protect valuable things.

Lack of security and enforcement proves the argument that MCPS does NOT care about students or see them or their safety as valuable.

Yes.

Apparently you've forgotten what life in the US was like, before the era of mass shootings at churches and movie theaters and synagogues and grocery stores and concerts and schools and big box stores and parades and and and and and.

If only the far-right GOP would stop blocking common-sense gun reform.

You mean like confiscating all guns so that only the police and criminals have guns? No thanks.

or at least checking to see that a buyer isn't mentally ill or a known criminal.

That is already a requirement.

It isn't in most places.

False. It's federal law.

Apparently not since Dems have been trying to pass common sense gun laws for years, but the GOP blocks it.

False.

Under 18 U.S.C. § 922(d), it is unlawful for any person to sell or otherwise dispose of any firearm or ammunition to any person knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that such person “has been adjudicated as a mental defective or has been committed to any mental institution.”

Under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), it is unlawful for a person convicted of a felony to ship, transport, receive, or possess a firearm or ammunition. The means of the transaction must have somehow affected interstate or foreign commerce for an act to violate the law.

And you probably also know the Trump Administration did it's best to prevent this from ever happening.

Using the Congressional Review Act, Republican majorities in the House and Senate voted to revoke the rule that former President Barack Obama issued as part of a series of efforts to curb gun violence after similar measures failed to pass through Congress.

Trump signed the bill in private, without his typical public signing ceremony meant to draw attention and fanfare.

He also rolled back an attempt by the Obama administration to clarify and broaden the statutory definitions of the terms that disable individuals who had been committed to mental institutions or adjudicated as mentally incompetent from buying guns.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/15/politics/mental-health-gun-possession-explainer/index.html

Yes, sadly the mentally ill can purahce all the automatic weapons they desire because the regressive-right blocks common sense reform.

False.

Under 18 U.S.C. § 922(d), it is unlawful for any person to sell or otherwise dispose of any firearm or ammunition to any person knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that such person “has been adjudicated as a mental defective or has been committed to any mental institution.”

Under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), it is unlawful for a person convicted of a felony to ship, transport, receive, or possess a firearm or ammunition. The means of the transaction must have somehow affected interstate or foreign commerce for an act to violate the law.

[Anonymous]

This conversation has gone pretty far off-track, but I thought I'd share that the Blake principal went on the school's video announcements today and gave an update to students on what happened last Friday and earlier this week. Apparently, last week four non-students entered the school through a door that a Blake student had propped open, but the Blake student did not have any connection to the intruders. Security found them in the building and escorted them out and an investigation began. When they showed up again this week, security caught them outside the building. There were no fights and no weapons. There is increased security this week and restrictions on what doors can be used to exit the building during the day.

As a Blake parent, I am pleased with the communication from the principal about this, as well as the increased vigilance and reminders/enforcement of relevant school rules, as shared in an earlier email.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Parents, don’t rest on “can’t secure all the doors.”

Yes they can and they must!

For decades, emergency doors had alarms when opened.

And there are motion sensor cameras even for private use so they can certainly adapt for door coverage.

Demand safety. At minimum, start with wiring done at the schools to protect the students.

No, they can't. Or at least they can't without giving a lot of money to companies that sell "security", and turning a school building into a high-security building. I think education funding should go to education, not to the "security" industry.

Do you work at a public high school? Have you sat in the corner of your classroom with 29 high schoolers during regularly scheduled active shooter drills? If no, then be quiet. If yes, then you are ignorant and don’t care about student safety.

Tell me something… every important building, like The White House or a Smithsonian, has emergency alarms on their non-main entrance. The church I grew up in—in a very rural area— had these as well. Please tell me, do these buildings feel like a prison to you? Or do we, as a society, think this is “prison-like”? No. We see it as a realistic safety measure to protect valuable things.

Lack of security and enforcement proves the argument that MCPS does NOT care about students or see them or their safety as valuable.

Yes.

Apparently you've forgotten what life in the US was like, before the era of mass shootings at churches and movie theaters and synagogues and grocery stores and concerts and schools and big box stores and parades and and and and and.

If only the far-right GOP would stop blocking common-sense gun reform.

You mean like confiscating all guns so that only the police and criminals have guns? No thanks.

or at least checking to see that a buyer isn't mentally ill or a known criminal.

That is already a requirement.

It isn't in most places.

False. It's federal law.

Apparently not since Dems have been trying to pass common sense gun laws for years, but the GOP blocks it.

False.

Under 18 U.S.C. § 922(d), it is unlawful for any person to sell or otherwise dispose of any firearm or ammunition to any person knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that such person “has been adjudicated as a mental defective or has been committed to any mental institution.”

Under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), it is unlawful for a person convicted of a felony to ship, transport, receive, or possess a firearm or ammunition. The means of the transaction must have somehow affected interstate or foreign commerce for an act to violate the law.

And you probably also know the Trump Administration did it's best to prevent this from ever happening.

Using the Congressional Review Act, Republican majorities in the House and Senate voted to revoke the rule that former President Barack Obama issued as part of a series of efforts to curb gun violence after similar measures failed to pass through Congress.

Trump signed the bill in private, without his typical public signing ceremony meant to draw attention and fanfare.

He also rolled back an attempt by the Obama administration to clarify and broaden the statutory definitions of the terms that disable individuals who had been committed to mental institutions or adjudicated as mentally incompetent from buying guns.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/15/politics/mental-health-gun-possession-explainer/index.html

Yes, sadly the mentally ill can purahce all the automatic weapons they desire because the regressive-right blocks common sense reform.

False.

Under 18 U.S.C. § 922(d), it is unlawful for any person to sell or otherwise dispose of any firearm or ammunition to any person knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that such person “has been adjudicated as a mental defective or has been committed to any mental institution.”

Under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), it is unlawful for a person convicted of a felony to ship, transport, receive, or possess a firearm or ammunition. The means of the transaction must have somehow affected interstate or foreign commerce for an act to violate the law.

Double False; you know the trump admin knee-capped this legislation. There are almost no restrictions on purchasing firearms and automatic weapons.