What We Know Now...

…about School Safety

• Familiarity with a visitor to the school does not mean their visit is well intentioned.
• Nice quiet towns instead of urban or inner-city communities have been the setting for the majority of mass school shootings.
• Mass shooting gunmen may not have licensed permits and may not have legally obtained or personally own the weapons used - thus making the gunmen free from gun control radar.
• Remotely buzzing a visitor into the inside of a school from an office does nothing but allows an unescorted, non-physically detected person into the school to go where he or she wants to go and be able to shoot anybody in their path along the way.
• Talking about gun control and changing rules will not keep guns out of the hands of people who illegally obtain weapons.
• Talking about gun control until the latest emotional upset settles down will not prevent another school shooting.
• Concentrating on gun control with no physical safeguard changes in the schools will not prevent another school shooting.

Hypothetically…

• A well-trained and armed patrolling security team in constant communication with an adequate number of members to cover all floors and areas of the school may spot an intruder quicker and thwart an incident.
• Well-monitored surveillance cameras covering every side and corner of a school’s exterior may reduce the time that an intruder can get into a school undetected.
• Without setting schools under the same security measures as federal buildings, courthouses, and airports, another school shooting is possible by not just an outside gunman but by a student of the school.