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Bulletproof steel shelters sold as solution to school shootings
A company in Fort Pierce, Florida not far from Parkland, site of the 2018 school shooting that killed 17 is stirring controversy with its plan to protect children from school shootings by hiding them in bullet-resistant steel enclosures.
To many, the idea of directing children into stark metal boxes serves as an alarming symbol of a country that fails time and again to address the causes of its gun violence crisis.
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/17/bulletproof-steel-shelters-sold-as-solution-to-school-shootings
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Bulletproof steel shelters sold as solution to school shootings (Original Post)
infullview
Jul 2022
OP
Historic NY
(37,457 posts)1. Great suffocating in a box
when some creep figures how to introduce some other means to get ot them
infullview
(982 posts)2. teargas canister through the ventilation holes
Or if really sadistic, spray foam in the ventilation holes and suffocate the occupants. Either way it sounds like a supremely stupid idea.
doc03
(35,395 posts)3. Sounds like a another use for used shipping containers.
Lock 50 kids in a 40 foot shipping container.
Response to infullview (Original post)
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3Hotdogs
(12,440 posts)5. Or.. how safe are the kids, runnin- no they're not allowed to run
Walking from the school to the shelter
Turbineguy
(37,383 posts)6. Then republicans must
give nutcases armor piercing ammunition.
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Paladin
(28,280 posts)8. What an utterly pathetic and contemptable country this has become. (nt)