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Every time we have some nut job try to play shoot'em up people lose their minds and want to take the guns away from everyone. As this is a constitutionally protected right that makes it kinda hard to do. So, how do you help protect your kids at school or yourself and co-workers at the office without trying to rob people of their God given right?
Rolling Steel Shutters.
Automated rolling shutters, much like you see shop owners bring down when closing their business for the day in bad parts of cities could easily be customized and installed on every door in a school or office.
A system much like a fire alarm could be linked with the local police and the make the ability to unlock and roll open the doors only possible by the police.
This would protect students and teachers and isolate the aggressor. The steel barrier would limit penetration and so long as no one is standing in front of the door, there would be virtually no casualties.
The system itself could be designed to be aesthetically pleasing and could even be installed into the wall or ceiling itself on new builds.
As this would be a nation-wide effort so it would be costly but the scale alone would help in that regard. Countless jobs would be created in steel, manufacturing, engineering, electrical, installation, transport, design...
I'm no fireman but based on what I know this could help contain fires in buildings as well, limiting or at least impeding their spread.
Again, they can be designed in a way that you wouldn't even give them a second look.
This is only a thinking out loud idea, but it seems to me a better way of protecting people from a potential threat that doesn't involve penalizing legal gun owners with restrictions and costly burdens.
Comments?
Rolling Steel Shutters.
Automated rolling shutters, much like you see shop owners bring down when closing their business for the day in bad parts of cities could easily be customized and installed on every door in a school or office.
A system much like a fire alarm could be linked with the local police and the make the ability to unlock and roll open the doors only possible by the police.
This would protect students and teachers and isolate the aggressor. The steel barrier would limit penetration and so long as no one is standing in front of the door, there would be virtually no casualties.
The system itself could be designed to be aesthetically pleasing and could even be installed into the wall or ceiling itself on new builds.
As this would be a nation-wide effort so it would be costly but the scale alone would help in that regard. Countless jobs would be created in steel, manufacturing, engineering, electrical, installation, transport, design...
I'm no fireman but based on what I know this could help contain fires in buildings as well, limiting or at least impeding their spread.
Again, they can be designed in a way that you wouldn't even give them a second look.
This is only a thinking out loud idea, but it seems to me a better way of protecting people from a potential threat that doesn't involve penalizing legal gun owners with restrictions and costly burdens.
Comments?
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