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Anonymous wrote:Metal detectors deter kids from bringing guns to school. This is a fact. Clearly there needs to be some kind of deterrent because a gun made its way into school.

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Guns in school aren't the metric that matters. Shootings are the metric that matter. Do metal detectors deter *shooters*?

Then the answer is no.

SROs also have never stopped a shooting but we have those.

Actually, you have no idea how many potential shootings either metal detectors or school police have prevented.

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Anonymous wrote:Educate me. Would a metal detector catch all ghost guns?

Once again, ghost guns are guns without serial numbers. Nothing about them is designed to sneak past metal detectors

The almost-entirely plastic construction is designed to sneak past metal detectors

Sigh. So-called “ghost guns” are not “almost entirely plastic,” and are not “designed to sneak past metal detectors.” The big, heavy, slide on top, the magazine internals, and multiple metal internal parts are more than enough to set off a magnetometer.

Anonymous wrote:Chiming in to offer my T’s and P’s.

Between this and the moving/redistricting controversy, Wootton fams should be livid. That’s a lot of rich of important people that should be livid. Although they are mostly a bunch of limousine liberals, voting democrat and this is what you get…

Wootton isn’t that rich.

Are Asians generally limousine liberals I don’t think so. Jews? That’s the pop.

Anonymous wrote:Metal detectors deter kids from bringing guns to school. This is a fact. Clearly there needs to be some kind of deterrent because a gun made its way into school.

Some kind of deterrent. Like, let’s go out on a limb here, significant criminal penalties that are actually applied?

Anonymous wrote:Educate me. Would a metal detector catch all ghost guns?

For at least the third time, the “ghost” in the rhetorical term “ghost gun” refers not to undetectability but to putative inability to trace origin because of the absence of serialization.


The Undetectable Firearms Act of 1988 (18 U.S.C. §922(p)) makes it illegal to manufacture, import, sell, ship, deliver, possess, or transfer any firearm that cannot be detected by standard security metal detectors and X-ray machines. The law requires all firearms to have at least 3.7 ounces of metal, ensuring they are visible to security scanners, aiming to prevent the use of plastic or ceramic weapons.

It may be technically possible to build a potentially “undetectable” firearm that would discharge at least one round before coming to pieces, but that is not the common meaning of the term “ghost gun,” and if such firearms exist they are not in common circulation.

What is common is firearms and other weapons being missed by security staff despite metal detectors.

Can anyone report on what happened at the 3:30 meeting today at Wootton HS?

Chiming in to offer my T’s and P’s.

Between this and the moving/redistricting controversy, Wootton fams should be livid. That’s a lot of rich of important people that should be livid. Although they are mostly a bunch of limousine liberals, voting democrat and this is what you get…

Anonymous wrote:Why did MCPS put this kid at Wootton, or for that matter, any MCPS school other than a highly secure one for kids with violent tendencies?

He lived in the Wootton cluster. His neighborhood is Rockshire.

Also, we don’t know if he has a history of disciplinary issues or violence. We need to wait for the investigation. As a concerned Wootton parent, I hear lots of rumors circulating but I don’t know anyone who actually knows this child directly.

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Anonymous wrote:The 15 year old girl he pointed the gun at earlier in the day- did she tell anyone? I'm sure she was terrified but I'm curious if she told anyone adult in the building? Did the school not take her seriously? Or was she too scared to tell anyone. I feel so sad for the wootton community and all directly involved.

Where did you hear this?

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/suspect-accused-threatening-second-student-before-wootton-high-school-shooting

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Anonymous wrote:The only issue I have with metal detectors is the amount of things students are ALLOWED to have that will set them off. It will take like 45-60 minutes to screen kids one by one to enter the building like a TSA process

At JR HS (NW DC) it takes ~ an hour to get students in in the morning

I’m not sure the lives saved through metal detectors would exceed the lives lost through depriving HS kids of an hour of sleep. There’s a lot of evidence showing that decreased sleep for HS kids leads to adverse health outcomes including car accidents.

Additional security officers and SROs seems like a no brainer to me and has th added benefit of allowing them to reopen bathroom.

They also need a better solution for kids that have criminal cases and violent histories. Like maybe virtual school.

Stop it with the SRO's all they do is bring more drugs to schools, prey on young girls and are worthless wanna be cops. Nothing statistacally proven they help.

Better off with metal detectors.

There is no way they would have stopped this or any other gun issue.

We need gun reform in this country unless that happens nothing will change.

Much like I applauded and support the rights of the BCC students to exercise their first amendment rights by walking out, I fully support my 2nd amendment rights to lawfully own a gun. No Amendment in the Constitution is any more important than another and refusal to understand that will lead to a very slippery slope when they decide that women no longer need the right to vote.

That canard no longer holds any water, after seeing how mass gun distribution hasn't stopped Trump mob's rolling over America.

I have voted Democrat in every election since 2002. I also own over two dozen firearms. I have a handgun in every room of my house. I love my 2A rights

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Anonymous wrote:The only issue I have with metal detectors is the amount of things students are ALLOWED to have that will set them off. It will take like 45-60 minutes to screen kids one by one to enter the building like a TSA process

At JR HS (NW DC) it takes ~ an hour to get students in in the morning

I’m not sure the lives saved through metal detectors would exceed the lives lost through depriving HS kids of an hour of sleep. There’s a lot of evidence showing that decreased sleep for HS kids leads to adverse health outcomes including car accidents.

Additional security officers and SROs seems like a no brainer to me and has th added benefit of allowing them to reopen bathroom.

They also need a better solution for kids that have criminal cases and violent histories. Like maybe virtual school.

Stop it with the SRO's all they do is bring more drugs to schools, prey on young girls and are worthless wanna be cops. Nothing statistacally proven they help.

Better off with metal detectors.

There is no way they would have stopped this or any other gun issue.

We need gun reform in this country unless that happens nothing will change.

Much like I applauded and support the rights of the BCC students to exercise their first amendment rights by walking out, I fully support my 2nd amendment rights to lawfully own a gun. No Amendment in the Constitution is any more important than another and refusal to understand that will lead to a very slippery slope when they decide that women no longer need the right to vote.

That canard no longer holds any water, after seeing how mass gun distribution hasn't stopped Trump mob's rolling over America.

Metal detectors are from the 1980's. Districts that use weapons detection use AI based weapon detection software and systems that can scan dozens of kids a minute and looks for items shaped as weapons so it doesn't matter if they are made of metal, plastic, wood or glass or cotton candy. If it is shaped like a knife or gun it will set the detector off. Same technology used at stadiums and event venues.

Anonymous wrote:The 15 year old girl he pointed the gun at earlier in the day- did she tell anyone? I'm sure she was terrified but I'm curious if she told anyone adult in the building? Did the school not take her seriously? Or was she too scared to tell anyone. I feel so sad for the wootton community and all directly involved.

She was absolutely irresponsible not to have reported this. She could have helped prevent the shooting.

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Anonymous wrote:The only issue I have with metal detectors is the amount of things students are ALLOWED to have that will set them off. It will take like 45-60 minutes to screen kids one by one to enter the building like a TSA process

At JR HS (NW DC) it takes ~ an hour to get students in in the morning

I’m not sure the lives saved through metal detectors would exceed the lives lost through depriving HS kids of an hour of sleep. There’s a lot of evidence showing that decreased sleep for HS kids leads to adverse health outcomes including car accidents.

Additional security officers and SROs seems like a no brainer to me and has th added benefit of allowing them to reopen bathroom.

They also need a better solution for kids that have criminal cases and violent histories. Like maybe virtual school.

Stop it with the SRO's all they do is bring more drugs to schools, prey on young girls and are worthless wanna be cops. Nothing statistacally proven they help.

Better off with metal detectors.

There is no way they would have stopped this or any other gun issue.

We need gun reform in this country unless that happens nothing will change.

While I support common sense gun safety laws, Maryland already has a lot of those. And last night, a teen at the Silver Spring Metro stabbed three other teenagers. In Europe, running over people with cars has become a substitute for shooting people. Ultimately, this is a people problem, not a gun problem.

It’s an easy access to guns problem.

“Easy” access to firearms is an unfounded slogan. Lawful access to firearms, especially in Maryland, is anything but “easy.” Criminal access to contraband is — well — already criminal.

Clearly a child had easy access to a gun.

You don't know how easy it was.

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Anonymous wrote:Metal detectors deter kids from bringing guns to school. This is a fact. Clearly there needs to be some kind of deterrent because a gun made its way into school.

"fact"

Guns in school aren't the metric that matters. Shootings are the metric that matter. Do metal detectors deter *shooters*?

Then the answer is no.

SROs also have never stopped a shooting but we have those.