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MyNameIsHurl · 41-45, F
Metal detectors
AngelUnforgiven · 51-55, F
@MyNameIsHurl i find it so ironic, that people use to say that metal detectors were only in urban schools. Like on the movie Lean on Me etc..i cannot count how many times ive heard people say that im not sending my child to that school with metal detectors, or poor people go to those schools. Or just people of color. When it's their own kids who are doing the shootings.Crime does not descriminate. Everyone is in the same basket.
MyNameIsHurl · 41-45, F
@AngelUnforgiven we all want the same things in life, I've lived in all types of neighborhoods throughout my life
AngelUnforgiven · 51-55, F
@MyNameIsHurl absolutely
ChipmunkErnie · 70-79, M
@MyNameIsHurl So, then the shooter just opens fire outside the school on unloading school busses. There is no way to avoid mass shootings except to get the guns out of the hands of the killers.
LordShadowfire · 46-50, M
@MyNameIsHurl metal detectors are great until somebody 3D prints a gun.
ninalanyon · 61-69, T
@AngelUnforgiven The schools my children went to don't even have a fence around them or a reception desk. If you have business there you just walk in and follow the signs to the class or office you need. There would be no one to operate the metal detector.
AngelUnforgiven · 51-55, F
@ninalanyon wow thats very scary that anyone could just walk in there
ninalanyon · 61-69, T
@AngelUnforgiven It's not scary here.
How can you live well if you feel that you are under siege the whole time?
I dare say that schools in more urban locations might be a bit more formal but here in Norway we live in what is commonly regarded as a high trust society so even then it's hardly likely to include a metal detector.
Today is Frigjøringsdag (Liberation day in Norway, called VE Day elsewhere). It's a flag day but it's not a holiday so the two schools that are at end of the street are open today. But there are no official classes, instead they have organised a kind of orienteering session so the whole village is full of primary school children (aged six to twelve) walking the route (several km), some alone, most in pairs or small groups. They aren't accompanied by adults, there are just staff members at a few check points.
Most of the children walk to and from school anyway so it's not as if fortifying the school would protect them from some lunatic.
How can you live well if you feel that you are under siege the whole time?
I dare say that schools in more urban locations might be a bit more formal but here in Norway we live in what is commonly regarded as a high trust society so even then it's hardly likely to include a metal detector.
Today is Frigjøringsdag (Liberation day in Norway, called VE Day elsewhere). It's a flag day but it's not a holiday so the two schools that are at end of the street are open today. But there are no official classes, instead they have organised a kind of orienteering session so the whole village is full of primary school children (aged six to twelve) walking the route (several km), some alone, most in pairs or small groups. They aren't accompanied by adults, there are just staff members at a few check points.
Most of the children walk to and from school anyway so it's not as if fortifying the school would protect them from some lunatic.