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All students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High must now use clear backpacks
- Thread starter Zipzo
- Start date
But what about the parents who bought their kids Kevlar backpacks to protect them from shooters? They don't come in clear.
Seriously, this feels like GTA come true. It would be funny if it wasn't so sad.
Almost 20 years ago my highschool had metal detectors at both main entrances. The school district was predominately black and was starved for money anyway. They had no issues getting them installed at pretty much every middle school and highschool. Why is this such an issue now?
Yeah but what if the students start carrying guns inside of hollowed out books?
I think we're gonna also need clear books
I think we're gonna also need clear books
I saw someone else already replied, but it as simple as putting the upper on the lower, pushing a pin through to keep them both in place, and then loading it up and going.
Responsible owners who clean their rifle after shooting do that same procedure often. I haven't cleaned my dad's AR in probably 5 years (I dont own one myself) but I am confident I could still assemble the thing (push pin, action, and everything) in less than two minutes. Assembling it from where it is in the first picture you quoted would take maybe 15-20 seconds, if that. There is only one way to put them together, and it's not like you can screw it up and have to do it again.
Aside from that, there are short barrel rifles and collapsible stocks to make the size of bag needed even smaller. Same procedure to put them together.
a wise man once said:
if you can heal the symptoms
but not affect the cause
it's quite a bit like trying to heal
a gunshot wound with gauze
if you instead attempt to wrest
the pistol from the hand
then I would not be able to
equate my life with sand
if you can heal the symptoms
but not affect the cause
it's quite a bit like trying to heal
a gunshot wound with gauze
if you instead attempt to wrest
the pistol from the hand
then I would not be able to
equate my life with sand
you can still ball...
Shit, you true.
School's got my stamp of approval.
Clear backpacks for all as a countermeasure, seems so wonderfully... dystopian.
So turn the school into a prison because politicians would rather let people die than introduce any amount of meaningful gun control, gotcha.
I'd like to know which vendor is making money off this stupid policy. Sounds like something straight out 9f Risk Scott's playbook.
This is dumb. Response to guns or knives, it's not going to be effective. It's just like the TSA dog and pony show.
It's effective enough for countless districts all over the country and for major sporting events.
I wonder how many folks on the school board are getting kickbacks from whoever manufactures these stupid looking things.
This prevents backpacks with a bullet proof backplate, which I thought were an interesting idea.
I mean yeah, but that wouldn't pass a metal detector though. It's not a single layered defense.
Clear backpacks... Airport style security..
When are they gonna go with clear clothing and full cavity searches... anything except banning guns
All this nonsense just to get into school and learn something, only in the US..
When are they gonna go with clear clothing and full cavity searches... anything except banning guns
All this nonsense just to get into school and learn something, only in the US..
Not really, no. The only person this MIGHT stop is a kid who stole their parent's gun and only planned on killing a specific person. With anyone planning a mass shooting, it's just gonna be that scene from The Matrix/Ultraviolet unless the guys at the metal detectors are armed.
it's security theater that will do little or nothing to actually make the place safer while turning school into prison-lite for a bunch of kids who were just badly traumatized
Making backpacks clear won't prevent someone who isn't even a student from simply walking in through a door with an assault rifle and killing everyone.
Yeah, this is what I was thinking. Clear backpacks isn't the end of the world. But if you do that, you'll need clear cases for everything, which also doesn't sound totally unreasonable...
...Until you realize this is preschool shit and this is being done because gun control is a joke in the U.S.
That's what I was thinking. You could even cut out the insides of a book and hide a handgun inside. Backpacks aren't the problem. It's not like Cruz stashed all his guns in his backpack.
What's the best way to enter a police station with a gun? Clear backpack?