While metal detectors seem like an easy answer, how long would it take to get 1500 kids through metal detectors each morning? Then you'd have half of them setting them of each day with belts/backpacks/electronics and other things. While Metal detectors seem like a GREAT IDEA, I'm not sure how practical they are at a majority of schools.

 

All about priorities. Most sports venues have metal detectors and shuffle in tens of thousands.

 

Sometimes safety doesn’t equal comfort and practicality.

Completely different scenario...he wasn't aiming to shoot an innocent person in that situation. In Marshall County he meant to shoot innocent people it seems.

 

Feels like rationalization to me. A man shot an innocent person.

 

It's illegal to shoot anyone who isn't threatening your life, right? An innocent person was shot in my scenario. Does it matter why? You can't feel sorry for the dad and not feel sorry for a kid that was bullied. They both took terrible actions and both were illegal.

All about priorities. Most sports venues have metal detectors and shuffle in tens of thousands.

 

Sometimes safety doesn’t equal comfort and practicality.

 

They also have several controlled entrances and enough machines and manpower to cover them all appropriately. Sports and concerts also have a much longer time window to process everyone.

 

Most secured schools have one access point and you'd have to funnel everyone in in a very short time span. Unless you want kids catching buses way earlier in the morning.

 

Metal detectors sound like a great idea, until you start thinking through all of the logistics of it.

Your post is valid. However what that thought process says in gerenal is, two lives are not worth that.

 

Doesn't say that at all...I'm just stating that logistically it's not as easy or simple as it seems.

As a Juvenile? My understanding, based on other cases that involved juveniles in capital crimes, was that they had to be released at 21. Or perhaps is that released into adult prison system?

 

Yep. See the case of Michael Carneal, the Heath Shooter. He was 14 and is still locked up and not eligible for parole till 2022.

They also have several controlled entrances and enough machines and manpower to cover them all appropriately. Sports and concerts also have a much longer time window to process everyone.

 

Most secured schools have one access point and you'd have to funnel everyone in in a very short time span. Unless you want kids catching buses way earlier in the morning.

 

Metal detectors sound like a great idea, until you start thinking through all of the logistics of it.

 

3/4 of fans show up an hour or less prior to the game/concert which would be similar to the time students arrive at school.

Those arenas found a way to make it safer for fans so fans would continue to show. Surely we could use those models to make schools safer for our children.

To me it’s a feasible answer that doesn’t delve into gun control or arming teachers.

Yep. See the case of Michael Carneal, the Heath Shooter. He was 14 and is still locked up and not eligible for parole till 2022.

 

So why bother trying them as an adult if they get the same time as tried a juvenile?

3/4 of fans show up an hour or less prior to the game/concert which would be similar to the time students arrive at school.

Those arenas found a way to make it safer for fans so fans would continue to show. Surely we could use those models to make schools safer for our children.

To me it’s a feasible answer that doesn’t delve into gun control or arming teachers.

 

What would stop a student from opening fire at the bottleneck of kids trying to get thru the metal detector? They would have to make all students go thru one entrance.

 

There was also a mass shooting at a school in MN where the kid shot the security guy as he was going they the detector and then opened fire on the students.

 

There are reasons for and against.

So why bother trying them as an adult if they get the same time as tried a juvenile?

 

No, this is the result of them trying him as an adult.

Yep. See the case of Michael Carneal, the Heath Shooter. He was 14 and is still locked up and not eligible for parole till 2022.

 

That would put it at 25 years.

Doesn't say that at all...I'm just stating that logistically it's not as easy or simple as it seems.

 

Not everyone arrives for school at the same time, every bus is different, every non bus student is different. It CAN be done, it just wont be, doesnt fit the narrative.

Not everyone arrives for school at the same time, every bus is different, every non bus student is different. It CAN be done, it just wont be, doesnt fit the narrative.

 

What narrative?

Doesn't say that at all...I'm just stating that logistically it's not as easy or simple as it seems.

 

And its not hard to defeat standard metal detectors. They may make some feel better but they would not stop the determined.

All about priorities. Most sports venues have metal detectors and shuffle in tens of thousands.

 

Sometimes safety doesn’t equal comfort and practicality.

Pro sports or colleges?

Pro sports or colleges?

 

At USF anyone entering any on-campus sports or entertainment venue must remove all metal from their pockets, allow their purses to be inspected, and submit to being wanded by an attendant.

 

The Bulls play football in an NFL stadium. Metal detectors and purse searches are done there. Also, only specified clear purses are allowed in the stadium.