Reminds me of the kid in the lead suit on his bike in the documentary “Atomic Cafe”…
https://www.newsweek.com/possible-active-shooter-safety-pods-schools-enrages-twitter-users-1724347
Note added - this isn’t a joke. There is a real company making these for various shelter in place situations and have expanded their sales pitch to include school shootings. Here’s their website featuring schools on their front page: https://nationalsafetyshelters.com
The preliminary report notes that 3 exterior doors weren't locked and the door to the classroom wasn't locked because the lock was broken.
Do you think Texas is wise enough to ask why we have to deadbolt schools in order to keep kids alive in the first place? I mean, it couldn't be the goddamn guns, could it?
Plus, almost 400 good guys with guns?! This is why that concept is bullshit.
According to this NPR article, these safety pods are to protect not only for school shootings but tornados and severe storms.
I’ve lived in tornado alley my whole life, had an F3 pass over my home. Sixty miles from the F5 tornado that flattened a good chunk of Joplin Mo in 2011 but lost its punch before it reached my area. A coworker lost his mother. She was missing for days and finally identified as one of many bodies in portable morgues.
Smaller shelters for homes are usually on display at the local mall. New homes are starting to include safe rooms in the build. But despite the benefits, school districts drag their feet. They cost too much, the school boards say.
I absolutely hate it takes school shootings to do something very much needed in most of flyover country. But these truly are dual purpose safety pods for many school districts.
Even with our local gun nut population I worry more about kids being at school when a tornado hits than a school shooter showing up.
Here is a relevant cartoon by Ruben Bolling from June 9th.
Aside from the nightmarish scenario of being trapped in a hot, stinky steel box with 23 other scared shitless people, the cost per classroom is $15,000-$30,000. The majority of teachers have to buy their own classroom supplies, so what school districts outside of obscenely wealthy ones can afford that kind of money? We could try something sane and regulate firearms instead.
What could go wrong? The kids in there real tight, locked from the outside and barely able to breathe. With 2 dozen cops standing outside picking their noses, hearing nothing, then walking away. Because they're not carrying their radios and no one's in charge.
This is just like focusing on the doors as the cure for mass shootings.
Ran across this in my downloads and had to share ... Go, Beto!