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In reply to the discussion: All classroom doors should be retrofitted with locks. [View all]proud2BlibKansan
(96,793 posts)8. I've always taught with my door open.
In a non-air conditioned boiler heated school, air circulation is important.
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The first classroom door he encountered was locked, so he moved on to the next.
Barack_America
Dec 2012
#100
It might have... But a stronger prevention would have been to disallow the possession of the gun.
freshwest
Dec 2012
#107
Gun control policy will take years. All classrooms can be locked within a month.
Barack_America
Dec 2012
#10
This suggestion is just an attempt to let the gun owners keep their toys...
Agnosticsherbet
Dec 2012
#19
Then sign up to do it. Easier to say when it's not your ass facing these nutters, eh?
Barack_America
Dec 2012
#73
Doable with a shotgun and special ammunition or special breaching explosive charge
ProgressiveProfessor
Dec 2012
#33
"stifling even in the winter,"-- We could save alot of money and carbon emissions by improving HVAC
FarCenter
Dec 2012
#23
Same here. But also, in my school the locks work exactly as the OP suggested. nt
Pale Blue Dot
Dec 2012
#77
Windows and door frames can be reinforced more easily than getting comprehensive gun control passed.
Barack_America
Dec 2012
#17
How about, instead of turning our schools into locked-down concentration camps,
Chorophyll
Dec 2012
#13
Because students can't vote, so it's politically easier to do things to them instead. (nt)
Posteritatis
Dec 2012
#28
Either turn them into wall or replace them with something like laminated Lexan
FarCenter
Dec 2012
#44
I support changing Race to the Top money to grants for school security.
proud2BlibKansan
Dec 2012
#49
True. Maybe the federal government could cancel a few bombs or something to help out the schools?
femmocrat
Dec 2012
#47
We can't even get the taxpayers to pay for decent textbooks. And now we're going to retrofit all
Squinch
Dec 2012
#63
You think that confiscating guns is more practical than installing locks?
Barack_America
Dec 2012
#64
Yes I do think so. And there are plenty of countries who have enacted effective
Squinch
Dec 2012
#72
You tell me what you think can be REALISTICALLY accomplished within 6 months.
Barack_America
Dec 2012
#60
For my young son? To comfort me. For millions of American schoolchildren?
Barack_America
Dec 2012
#62
Unfortunately, people would die. And that would be true if the door were locked or not.
Barack_America
Dec 2012
#66
Ban all guns in the street and have eyes in the sky to alert when any gun is in area
graham4anything
Dec 2012
#76
A 9mm slug makes a one-size-fits-all key to most locks. You'd have to armor the doors & windows.
leveymg
Dec 2012
#81
bullet-proof glass windows in all public school buildings could be a start and campus police
zen_bohemian
Dec 2012
#86
Hardly. Would rather protect the kids while we fight to improve gun control.
Barack_America
Dec 2012
#95