Parkland students start school year with tightened security
Source: Associated Press
By KELLI KENNEDY
1 hour ago
PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — Students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Wednesday returned to a more secure campus as they began their first new school year since a gunman killed 17 people in the freshman building. But some say they still won’t feel protected despite $6.5 million spent on security enhancements, including 18 safety monitors, new classroom locks and upgraded video surveillance.
All the students wore lanyards with IDs around their necks as they walked past a heavy police presence. Volunteers greeted them with German shepherds, and a helicopter hovered overhead as a throng of media watched from across the street.
Samantha Deitsch, 15, said she’s grateful for the changes, but “there’s literally no place that I am every day that I feel 100 percent safe and the thought doesn’t go through my head that someone could come in with a gun.”
Anijah Avera, 16, said she mostly doesn’t think about the shooting except for “a little bit this morning... we have better security now so I feel a little more at ease.”
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“heavy police presence”...”German shepherds”...”helicopter overhead”...sounds more like a prison than a school.
That helicopter alone is costing thousands of dollars an hour to be in the air.
This is a costly, unsustainable, mentally unhealthy and ridiculous solution to the problem.
All this so some ignorant asshole can own is own machine gun with a drum clip that holds 100 AP rounds with no training or gun license or record of his purchase?!?
How is this a better solution than just getting the guns off the fucking streets?!?
