Hero teacher gave life to save students
December 15, 2012 8:38 PM
It seems one of the ironies - and truisms - of tragedies, is heroes emerge. Peter Van Sant reports on the story of Sandy Hook Elementary first-grade teacher Vicki Soto, 27, who died shielding her students from the gunman.
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1) I think schools should have panic buttons in the rooms like banks have at the bank teller counters. We go through all of this to protect money why not our children? So if someone in a school hears something like this or something horrible starts to happen. The Teacher can hit the panic/emergency button and the door to the classroom they are in closes and locks. This could also be made to close and lock the door to each classroom in a wing, hall or the entire school at the same time while sounding an alarm. It could also close/lock doors in the hallways-sections of the school. All this while calling/dispatching law enforcement immediately. This puts obstacles between the Psycho and their escape and anymore victims. Let's implement this ASAP. In addition, Bullet proof doors to all classrooms and all doors in the school. Bullet proof glass on at least the first floor rooms/areas.
2) I think we should consider utilizing the current assets we already have to save tax payers money and provide a deterrent for this type of activity.... Why don't we make Police station hubs on the same property with the schools? It's already government land. Instead of paying an ineffective rent a police to walk the halls (no offense but we need the real deal in this day and age) have that Police hub service/ provide an officer or two to the school as well. We need to strategically place our law enforcement like we would military these days. Use current assets we already have to save tax payers money and provide a deterrent for this type of activity. Comments, suggestions, improvement, different ideas?
3) The reason schools are targeted is because there aren't any deterrents. Children are the least likely to be able to fight back. You have one adult to every child. It's a cowardly thing but is fact. It's instinctual for animals to pick off the weakest in a pack when hunting... it's disgusting humans are doing this but it is the world we live in now.
There are way too many guns now days and even if you were to implement a law to eradicate guns, only the law abiding citizens would hand them over making them sitting ducks and future victims for the bad guys. I look forward to hearing real solutions instead of fear mongering to try and
strip the rights of others away.
Concerned Parent and Citizen