For architects, the challenge is balancing the need for additional security with design principles that foster a more nurturing educational environment for students. As architect Jim French explained, designers could apply the design methods used to keep prisons secure to schools, but that would hamper the experience for children. — MarketWatch
Following the recent school shooting in Parkland, Fla. Jacob Passy reviews some of the ways that the design of schools is changing to address safety concerns.
Interestingly, at last night's CNN Town Hall Gun Debate, Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel argued there are three things we need to do in America to prevent future tragedies; 1) we have to use CPTED (Crime prevention through environmental design) to make schools harder to penetrate 2) we need to empower law enforcement to help people with mental illness get the care they need and restrict them from owning guns 3) lastly and perhaps most importantly we do need gun control reform.
Of note, none of those three actions include President Trump's (and the NRA's) preferred option which is arming teachers.
Stop with this social engineering bullshit. Sure - buildings can be designed as bomb shelters, but buildings can't prevent people from trying to bomb them...
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Related: Over at Mother Jones, Stephanie Mencimer highlights a few recommendations from a 2013 NRA task force report, on measures to “harden” schools.
Translation: How do we monetize this?
Backwards thinking. Just like everything else going on.
Stupid idea.
Hey, instead of treating the problem (terrible gun control and backwards gun-loving culture), let's just add a fresh coat of paint to our safety illusions.
Idiots.
Wrong Balkins. The problem is the dumb backwards religious adoration of guns. If you can't see this, you're part of the problem.
Balkins, please refrain from entering this discussion. You’re incapable of seeing the real problem.
i love the city-slickers don't know nothing tact, followed by a bunch of clueless BS. 99.9% of cattle slaughter in the US use a 2-step process of stunning with a captive bolt (not a conventional firearm) or electrical current, followed by exanguination. Bear attacks in the continental US typically cause between 0 and 2 deaths per year - of which a significant percentage involve captive circus bears.
Dude I grew up in one of the most rural areas of the US, in the midst of forests and farms. I saw bears on a regular basis. Yelling and waiving my arms chased away every single one - even the one that was 8 feet away. No butter knives needed. This is exactly my point: you're invoking the dumb city slicker trope - and naively proving that you are the dumb city slicker.
Balkins, with your mental health issues, you make a perfect example why gun control is important. Important so that delusions fools can’t stumble easily into weapons. You are part of the problem, not the solution. Seak here
2017 was a big year for bear attacks in the lower 48. There were 4. One involved a captive bear. Another involved a tourist who had been expressly warned not to go on that trail because of the bear, did it anyway, and chased the bear with a camera. "You have to live in the rural life to understand it." Yes, that is the one true statement I've ever seen you write. Good job. Now take your own statement to heart: you grew up in cities, therefore you do not understand it, so never pretend to again.
Ricky, what percentage of people here do you think read any of your rants? I say, less than a tenth of 1%. Make your points concise, without caps, and no longer than a tweet, and maybe someone will take you seriously. Until then, please keep your foaming at the mouth uneducated ramblings to yourself.
I'm happy you're unemployed because that means you can't afford weapons and ammunition. You're clearly not suitable for gun-ownership and your neighbours are likely very relieved. People with your point of view and who refuse to see the real problem are placed squarely within the danger groups... right in there with the idiot parents who thought it wise to give their child weapons.
A few years back when there was a shooting at a community college in Oregon, my 1st thought when I first heard it in the news was that it was Balkins.
Ricky, mental health will always remain present just as well as american gun-ownership religious dogma. The issue is access and the casual attitude towards these useless murder toys many folks have. No one has a need for an AR-whatever, or to carry pistols on their person... Those that do want these, ought to abide by stricter rules so that their toys don't fall in the hands of anyone else who, mental health aside, may have negative intentions. Black market guns and gang on gang shootings will always be there, but had that dumb family not given their kid semi-auto riffles or that Vegas cunt not been able to purchase that arsenal, we would not have those shootings. Gold star to you for writing something with some thought to it rather than an emotional derailment.
Richard, it's not that you haven't made the point. We understand your point - there's no need to keep repeating it. We disagree with it.
And yes everybody understands there are other means by which to which kill people. The most deadly school attack in the US was a deliberate explosion. A difference is that it is far easier and quicker for an angry, impulsive teenager to grab a gun than it is for him to plan and assemble a bomb, and to do so without drawing notice, and to sustain the level of anger and mental crisis for long enough to plan and implement that means of attack, without deciding against it or being intercepted. Possible yes, but less likely.
A perfect example of how money can't fix a problem created by money. In fact the only fix is demonetization. If the various "interest groups" didn't have any economic clout the whole thing would go away very quickly.
Close the schools. HOME SCHOOL EVERYONE.
Yeah, let's stop paying taxes altogether while we're at it, who needs firemen or police anyway? only those non self reliant
You're buying into a bogus system perpetrated for your detriment. Money is not a limited physical resource, it is an artificial construct created with a keystroke. A government that issues it's own currency can never run out of money.
Proof #1: The Great Bailout, when trillions were created out of nothing overnight to bail out the bankers and insurers who crashed the economy (again).
Proof #2: They can spend as much as they like on wars, tax breaks for the rich and so on but "we can't afford" health care or the most basic social protections for all citizens.
The government does not run like a household or a business because it can create as much money as it needs. You and I can't do that. The purpose of taxes is moderate behavior to keep money from piling up in the wrong places.
And? Did you not pay your cable bill this month? Or your car loan? Just because you think you know how it works and hate it, doesn't make it go away. You, and only you can act on it.
It amazes me all the time, the american mindset of compartimentalize everything as if things weren't weaved into their own lives, as if when they talk about something, it hasn't anything to do with their daily lives. Like watching movies.
Hey Miles, I know you're smary, and you know I wasn't really talking about taxes, but the old idea that we are part of something bigger that can't be done by anyone alone, so if you have a better plan to keep the schools, firemen, police, ambulances and services running please let me know; I just dont believe in isolation as a solution to the american problem
*Smart, it would be nice if we could
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You're missing the point, economics drives everything. Taxes are supposed to be used to regulate behavior, rewarding good ones and punishing bad ones. Like the tax on cigarettes, which has resulted in a reduction in the number of smokers. The gun problem could largely be "fixed" with economics. See Chris Rock's rant on gun control.
The US dollar is not backed by anything. The great bailout magically created trillions overnight to hand to the banks that crashed the economy. B y a government that was $10 trillion in debt. Aside from that something like 90% of all money in the US is digital - it does not exist as paper.
The US dollar is not backed by anything. The great bailout magically created trillions overnight to hand to the banks that crashed the economy. B y a government that was $10 trillion in debt. Aside from that something like 90% of all money in the US is digital - it does not exist as paper.
Aside from that you are correct. School massacres would still occur every week if there weren't any guns.
Money is not a limited physical resource, it is an artificial construct. When you are the issuer of currency, and when that currency is not backed by anything, debt is irrelevent because you can never run out of money. Ever. Where did the great bailout money come from? Remember, the banks were broke and the government was $10t in "debt". Wake up.
"Guns don't shoot people, People do". Waiting to hear this.
Guns don't kill people. Bullets kill people. Bullets that come from guns held by people intending to kill other people, mostly .
Or, perhaps, we stop manufacturing items which have NO OTHER FUCKING PURPOSE THAN TO MURDER MORE PEOPLE FASTER AND FASTER.
Hyperbole fail.
Stop with this social engineering bullshit. Sure - buildings can be designed as bomb shelters, but buildings can't prevent people from trying to bomb them...
No,the problem is dumb NRA type people keep thinking they are the good guys with guns. They are not. Get rid of them.
Illusion of safety Via firearm penis enlargement. Balkins shows his ignorance once again.
I happen to agree with Balkins here... people are reacting emotionally to these issues (and this is normal), but the argument is totally irrational. Guns don't kill people. People kill people....
People with unreasonably relaxed access to murder toys kill people, so, let's ban people then.
Yeah - lets! Lets ban people from having kids who they can't support and be there for so we don't fuck them to the point where they choose to shoot up entire schools!
My thoughts and prayers go out to all those idiotic gun-rights activists who now have to face increasing intelligent public pressure to abandon their prized security illusions.
Just send them some bullets instead. At a high rate of speed.
when building new schools, put all classrooms on the ground level, and make one outer wall a giant garage door, similar to ones use in bars. Then when the shooter alarm is pulled, open all giant garage doors automatically so kids can run away. A shooter would likely avoid a school where he cannot block singe doors in classrooms to shoot as many kids as possible.
....or, stop making guns so readily available.
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