Comments by "" (@tekannon7803) on "CBS Evening News"
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Dear Mr Glor and distinguished guests, I am an inventor and I am throwing an idea out there. If in the architecture of schools, there was a master switch that locked all the classrooms and enclosed the hallways every 50 feet for example at the first sound of gunfire, it could seal off the place where the shooter was operating. It could function like a sliding wall that would seal off the hallway from both sides leaving no exit every so many feet – the length of a classroom, for example. If a master switch was given to every teacher and administrator in the schools, at the first shot, a teacher or someone could press the button and the school would go into total lockdown. With security cameras, the location of the shooter could be found quickly. Equally, as a tactic, in all of the rooms and especially the room where the shooter was operating, if reverse smoke makers/detectors were put in place, a smokescreen could be used to diminish the shooters view. I realize that I am giving only an idea for containing a possible shooter. The thing is the shootings are going to continue, it can’t be prevented, but trapping the shooter might be one way to lower the harm or limit the casualties he or she can do. Could it also be envisaged to have under every school desk a ‘blanket’ that was capable of slowing down or even stopping a bullet? A student could wrap the blanket around them. It could be made out of the same material as bullet-proof vests. Much like when a plane is going down, the blankets would drop from the desks when a gunman began shooting and a student could wrap the blanket around himself or herself. It might save a life.
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