Should all people entering school campuses be required to pass the metal detectors?

Question

I dont think it would solve the problem completely.But I see nothing wrong with making it harder for these demonic people to do the harm they so desire to do.

I agree ,but then what can we do to make it harder for these shootings to happen? Its nearly impossile to correct this problem %100.

Answer 1

It's sad that the schools have to resort to this, but they should. I agree with you, I don't think it would solve the problem completely. But if it will save 30 + lives then the schools should do it. Its just really sad that we have to even put these up.

Answer 2

Metal detectors don't help and in places like university campuses, they would be hard to enforce and useless. Classes are at all times of the day and night and a shooter could still just as easily walk unto the green or campus quad and open fire.

Besides, more often than not the shooter is not some random person who just walks off the street and decides to open fire. It's someone who goes to the school, a student and they usually tell someone about their plans before they do it and it's because people don't take them seriously that this happens. Schools need to enact tougher laws against things like this. If a student makes a threat against the school or anyone at the school, even so much as a "I'm going to make that teacher pay" needs to be taken seriously and that student needs to be investigated. It's time that we wake up and stop worrying about just ourselves until something like this happens. Imagine the parents living in California, Texas, other parts of the country who wake up to read this news and don't know whether their children are alive.

Metal detectors is just putting a band-aid on a gunshot wound.

Answer 3

1. Slows people down. Not everybody gets scanned and with the number of students having to get to class it becomes seriously problematic.
2. Cost. You need to hire people and the equipment to proceed. If this is for a college campus you are talking about serious amount of personnel dedicated to this sole job instead of say looking for thieves.
3. Schools are not Prisons. I have heard this arguement countless times and I tend to agree we should have relative free access to places without being hastled. Public schools are a PITA enough without placing metal detectors in them.




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I think schools around the country need a fast reaction police/swat force that is properly trained etc. The campus police force surrounded the building, but according to a Swat analyst on CNN they should have been breaching the building to stop more occurence. THis is easy to say in hindshight but I think the campus could do more like promptly keeping the students up to date with affairs on campus such as the shooting of 2 students and the gunman remaining at large.

Answer 4

no...for many reasons. the greatest of these being the fact that America is a free country and public places should remain exactly that...PUBLIC!

the issue is not the safety precautions in place or the security response on campus at all. the campus authorities did the best they could with the information they had at the time. a metal detector could not have prevented the tragedy that happened today.

the real issue is that humanity no longer considers itself valuable. the man or men that killed today is just another sad example of that. humanity is turning on itself!

Answer 5

The answer is simple. Nobody who ever goes around to perform mass killings, ever obtains a firearm legally. Give the freedom to bear arms to the people who legally aquire them, and this POSSIBLY could of been avoided if not less loss of life. I carry a Glock, but honestly I know what movies show and what the situation that occured would I or anybody else been able to do anything without losing our own life? Perhaps when he went to reload (Rumor he had two 9mm), a shot could of been gotten off, or scared him away. Either way the situation sucked, and my heart and prayers go out to the families of such a tragic and sensless death.

Answer 6

In a any society there are choices... Freedom or Security..

I prefer Freedom. Non-instrusive freedom.

I believe personally that security begins with self. I believe in order to be secure one must be prepared to protect himself or herself.

I think the only way freedom will be preserved is through arming society rather then attempting to disarm society.

People ought to arm themselves and learn when where, why and how to use a weapon. Do I feel I need to carry a fire arm for security?

I don't believe a police state is the answer to prevent school shootings. I believe prepare students and teachers who know how to respond in kind is the answer.

A student or teacher in the classroom could eliminate the threat with undue process.

Sick people are sick people, we can't address illness by making a police state of our country.

Answer 7

Well, think rationally about this. There are tens of thousands of students at a given college campus. There are nearly an infinite number of entry points to the campus. If you check them at each building, you would have to move classes from ten minutes apart, to two to three hours. I don't think this is a feasible solution.

Answer 8

I favor allowing individuals to carry concealed weapons if they have had training and have not had a felony conviction. Most of the people in the self-help group Parents of Murdered Children have strong feelings about this issue as well as Citizens against Homicide. (Members of both national groups have suffered the loss of a loved one to homicide) Compassionate Friends is also a self-help group however it is for parents who have lost a child to any cause homicide, accidental death or disease.
http://www.pomc.com
http://www.pomc.org
http://www.murdervictims.com/CAH.html
http://www.compassionatefriends.org

In 1999 at the Columbine High School shooting 22 students were killed.

So far 33 have been confirmed dead at the shootings at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University — (located in the western end of the state near the borders of West Virginia and Tennessee). It has been called the worst mass shooting in modern American history. The shootings began in the Ambler Johnston Hall dormitory at 7:15 a.m. Eyewitnesses described the gunman as an Asian male about 6 feet tall. He apparently shot himself in the head after the killings; part of his face was missing when his body was found.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=3045574&page=1

He was said to have quarrelled in a dormitory with his girlfriend, whom he believed had been seeing another man. A student adviser was called to sort out the row. But the killer produced a gun and shot dead both his girlfriend and the adviser.

The second shooting was at Norris Hall. Two hours later he rampaged through an engineering building on the other side of the campus in the town of Blacksburg, killing indiscriminately.

The gunman was said to be of Asian appearance and dressed in maroon hat, leather jacket and black-military style shooting vest.

He had ammunition strapped across his chest as he calmly walked from room to room refilling his two 9mm handguns as he shot students.

He locked the doors of several classrooms to stop anyone escaping. Some terrified students jumped for their lives from fourthfloor windows, while others used desks to barricade doors.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=448955&in_page_id=1811&ct=5

The gunman has been identified as a Chinese man who arrived in the United States last year on a student visa. The 24-year-old man arrived in San Francisco on United Airlines on Aug. 7 on a visa issued in Shanghai
http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation/343354,vatech041607.articleprint

The number of dead is almost twice as high as the previous record for a mass shooting on an American college campus. That took place at the University of Texas at Austin on Aug. 1, 1966, when a gunman named Charles Whitman opened fire from the 28th floor of a campus tower. Whitman killed 16 and injured 31.

another good account
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070417/D8OI106O0.html
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Answer 9

It would not have change a thing today! We have metal dectors at work and no armed guards. So if a nut has a gun how are they gonna stop them.

Answer 10

I think the metal detectors should be in elementary, middle, high school and colleges. Can't be too safe nowadays....