Anonymous
Post 12/07/2023 10:14     Subject: Re: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.

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.
We have common sense oversight. What's your solution if not confiscating all guns?
Anonymous
Post 12/07/2023 10:01     Subject: Re:Blake High School - incident report

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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.
Anonymous
Post 12/07/2023 09:50     Subject: Re:Blake High School - incident report

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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.

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.
Anonymous
Post 12/07/2023 09:43     Subject: Re:Blake High School - incident report

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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.

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.
Anonymous
Post 12/07/2023 09:41     Subject: Re:Blake High School - incident report

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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.

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.
What do you propose? Several people have already bemoaned the lack of laws they did not know exist already. What more would you like to see done?
Anonymous
Post 12/07/2023 09:40     Subject: Re:Blake High School - incident report

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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.
Those are already laws.


Except where they aren't in most places. Like in VA anyone can get a gun at a gun show no questions asked.
Virginia law requires the State Police to be available at gun shows and conduct a background check on any purchaser or transferee prior to the completion of any firearm transaction at a gun show.


they mostly don't and look the other way
So you agree then that we don't need more laws. We just need to enforce the ones we have. Thank you.
Anonymous
Post 12/07/2023 09:35     Subject: Re:Blake High School - incident report

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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.

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!
Anonymous
Post 12/07/2023 09:34     Subject: Re:Blake High School - incident report

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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.
Those are already laws.


Except where they aren't in most places. Like in VA anyone can get a gun at a gun show no questions asked.
Virginia law requires the State Police to be available at gun shows and conduct a background check on any purchaser or transferee prior to the completion of any firearm transaction at a gun show.


they mostly don't and look the other way
Anonymous
Post 12/07/2023 09:33     Subject: Re:Blake High School - incident report

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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.
Those are already laws.


Except where they aren't in most places. Like in VA anyone can get a gun at a gun show no questions asked.
Virginia law requires the State Police to be available at gun shows and conduct a background check on any purchaser or transferee prior to the completion of any firearm transaction at a gun show.
Anonymous
Post 12/07/2023 09:25     Subject: Blake High School - incident report

The right is now advocating for easier access to bump stocks and fully automatic weaponry. Not sure this is helpful. It will definitely not make schools safer.
Anonymous
Post 12/07/2023 09:22     Subject: Re:Blake High School - incident report

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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.

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.
Anonymous
Post 12/07/2023 09:17     Subject: Re:Blake High School - incident report

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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.
Those are already laws.


Except where they aren't in most places. Like in VA anyone can get a gun at a gun show no questions asked.
Anonymous
Post 12/07/2023 08:57     Subject: Re:Blake High School - incident report

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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.
Those are already laws.
Anonymous
Post 12/07/2023 08:47     Subject: Re:Blake High School - incident report

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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.
Anonymous
Post 12/07/2023 08:41     Subject: Re:Blake High School - incident report

Anonymous wrote:
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.