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All students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High must now use clear backpacks
- Thread starter Zipzo
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My take as well.
This happens because politicians are useless, gutless morons who can't pass legislation. It's sad to see the school resorting to this, but what else can they do?.
All of those measures are so demoralising and alienating. As an European if I had to go through metal detectors when I was a student, wear clear backpacks and seeing police with guns at the school I would feel in a prison. This ends up influencing the vision those kids have from the world: a wild jungle, in which everyone is evil by default. And then the cycle continues. Think about it.
Just curious. Let's say "school shooter" opens his bag and starts assembling this weapon, how long would he take to get it together and start shooting? Say, if he practices at home and not being having military or police training.
Yeah, but you'd need an oversize special bag
Any experts?
This isn't an idea I've ever thought of but it's pretty smart. Not the end all be all obviously but good. Wouldn't mind this being implemented everywhere, bare minimum it means free backpacks for kids.
Like less than 30 seconds. All you have to do is attach the upper and lower receiver.
It sucks but at least the school is trying to protect their students
it absolutely won't help if an expelled kid comes back to the school he's not supposed to be at and brings guns he should have never been able to buy legally
but the school is at least trying
it absolutely won't help if an expelled kid comes back to the school he's not supposed to be at and brings guns he should have never been able to buy legally
but the school is at least trying
I've said this before but the United States will ban schools first before banning guns. What an embarrassment
It's as simple as stating the fact that this rule wouldn't have prevented their mass murder.
The people saying "they will do anything but the thing we need" aren't thinking right. The principal of a school cannot enact gun control. The principal of a school can only control the school, within the confines of laws and budgetary restrictions this year (which are shrinking every year). This is a dumb idea, but just leave it at that.
You're right, of course. It's just... nothing that would have prevented their mass murder is unlikely to happen anytime soon, unfortunately. Our country would have to fundamentally change in multiple ways for that to happen
It would be so easy to hollow out a fat textbook and stick a gun in it.
This is stupid.
I realize a school principal can't unilaterally enact gun control for the state of Florida. But this is just... I mean come on, man. 100% of the time this will lead to embarrassing lapses in the students' privacy and 0% of the time this will prevent school shooters.
Pretty much any sporting event in the US has this now as well.
Airport scanners. Transparent backpacks, armed teachers. We're talking about *Schools* you utter fucking lunatics.
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Oh you sweet summer children. They did this to my school district back in the late 90's/early 2000s after Columbine. I had to carry a damn stack of books everywhere I went because we weren't allowed to have backpacks. And if you left a book behind, you'd get detention. Really unfair.
Are there actually many shootings where school kids take guns into school then decide on a whim to start shooting though? From my admittedly limited knowledge, the more high profile shooters drive to their targeted school fully kitted up and ready to go, without concealing their intentions. Didn't the Columbine shooters drive to school then just walk in and start blasting?
Was going to Say - tampax on display Somone isnt going to be Happy
Politicians are useless, so schools have to do something they can actually implement. I don't get the mockery.
This feels horrifically prophetic. It should be ridiculous, but I can absolutely see a combination of fearful parents keeping their kids away, and rising budgets from which more and more money is funneled into security rather then education, resulting in the natural death of public schools.
Ahahahahhahaa your country is fucking broken
Most news sites have a school shooting tag now holy shit
This is so fucking absurd you can't even do anything but laugh it's like an onion skit
Most news sites have a school shooting tag now holy shit
This is so fucking absurd you can't even do anything but laugh it's like an onion skit
My high school was proposing this 15 years ago to curb gang violence and drug dealing. Thankfully it never took off at my school, but they did institute a rather strict uniform policy and some other related things instead. The clear backpack policy even seemed extremely dehumanizing in my school where it was probably justified, but it seems horribly offensive when you're introducing it to this school which I assume didn't have any weapon issues before their unfortunate tragedy.
The entire slide on a Glock pistol is steel, it's just the frame that is polymer. All the fittings and springs are steel too. Ammunition is going to set of metal detectors too...
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I don't believe anyone here is mocking the school.
The guffaw is more so that, this is the best we can do. Something that's little more than security theater. Isn't that sad that this is really the best we have to offer our children who feel like they could literally die at school? Not because the school itself could do better, but that the entire circumstance has led to something like this being our absolute best and most optimal option.
I rememebr hearing about this being a thing at other schools years ago when I myself was in high school. Not in response to school shootings or anything but more gang violence and the like. Made a hell of a lot more sense for that reasoning lol
Yeah, same here and that was in 08-12. They're not that bad I guess
It's a dumb idea, but I'm not sure what else a school could even do. Change needs to come from the legislature