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Some posts are missing the point. It's not to deter criminals with rational mind and time to plan. it's to deter common scenario of crime of opportunities and/o
by aynyc 3y ago
Some posts are missing the point. It's not to deter criminals with rational mind and time to plan. it's to deter common scenario of crime of opportunities and/or passion.
It's not difference than lock on your door, a drug addict see your front door unlock, they'll try to steal something, but they aren't gonna figure out how to pick a lock or break a window to cause a ruckus.
- brk 3y agoSure, but this device is significantly more expensive than a standard metal detector, and at the the end of the day not necessarily "better". For schools in particular, it does not seem like a good use of funds to buy super expensive metal detectors when the intent is only to deter "common scenarios" instead of dedicated attackers. Or do you disagree?
- aynyc 3y agoOh, agree. It's a waste of money but I went to high school with metal detectors in 90s in NYC. It was a bad optic and still is. Imagine your kids going thru metal detectors when entering school.
- geraldhh 3y agosomethings clearly in the wrong. saying as someone who went to a semi-private school run by nuns where pupils would get written up for running.
- torstenvl 3y agoWhy is it bad to go through metal detectors to go to school? I go through a metal detector when I go into work. I go through a metal detector when I enter a courthouse. I go through a metal detector when I go into the Capitol. None of these things detracts from the gravitas of those places, and none of them makes any of those places feel less safe. Especially when the alternatives include impinging on fundamental rights or forcing kids to go through sometimes horrifying active shooter drills, I have a hard time understanding the objection to metal detectors.
- geraldhh 3y agoi have a hard time understanding the requirement. then again i only ever went throu a metal detector at the airport; which neither detected my pocket knife nor the screwdriver in my bag, but the guards made a real fuss about that half-filled bottle of juice.
- fauxpause_ 3y agoActive shooter drills are very boring and met with mockery fwiw.
- detaro 3y agoMetal detectors in schools solve school shootings?
- torstenvl 3y agoSecurity measures deter mass shooters, including school shooters, yes. > Drake told reporters that "there was another location that was mentioned, but because of threat assessment by the suspect, too much security, they decided not to." https://www.newsweek.com/covenant-school-shooter-audrey-hale-eyed-second-target-police-say-1790702 https://www.newsweek.com/covenant-school-shooter-audrey-hale...
- nsxwolf 3y agoI'd be surprised if schools with metal detectors don't have active shooter drills. Mass shooters aren't deterred by metal detectors. They show up armed and walk into the building shooting. Metal detectors are better at preventing situations like gang violence where rivals carry every day "just in case".
- marssaxman 3y ago> none of them makes any of those places feel less safe Experiences certainly vary: security checkpoints definitely make me feel less safe, whether or not they include metal detectors, so I avoid going into any place which has one. I would go to some significant effort to avoid putting my child through that experience every schoolday. What a drag on one's educational experience that would be!
- Kuinox 3y ago> Sure, but this device is significantly more expensive than a standard metal detector, Ceramic knifes exists.