Comments on: Our Worst Nightmare: Escambia Schools Have Shooting, Lockdown Plans In Place

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 11:44:13 +0000

Breaking out is different from breaking in. Fewer tools, less access, guards watching every inch of the fence with shotguns in hand.

David for guard towers

By: JustMe

JustMe — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 06:36:16 +0000

Im for better people too David but let’s face it that isn’t going to happen. The world has gone to hell in a hand basket. If it were That easy to burst through a fence like prisons have don’t ya think there would be breakouts all the time? I do. It is time we do something to secure our schools more than just a pop lock door.

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 23:22:35 +0000

REGARDING:
“Fence is a one time expense…”

Fences are easily taken down. Now if you had fence and mock orange all along the fence line on both sides, you might have a barrier.
and a moat
and air cover.

Even with that, people could get through, just shoot the guard (if they are coming in to kill, one more won’t dissuade them) or drive through with a large stolen vehicle.

Nice try, though.

David for better people

By: Charlene

Charlene — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 19:04:57 +0000

Bellview Elementary does not have the above described doors and probably never will, my children attended this school and now my grandchildren attend this school and nothing has changed. Sure you are suppose to check into the office but nothing stops you from wondering in and out of the buildings and no one asks you what you are doing. I know this from experience when I entered through the wrong door into the lunch room and again wondering around looking for my grandson. This school has separate portable units and separate buildings and the doors stand wide open, not security to speak of, just saying.

By: Bratt Mom

Bratt Mom — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 18:59:23 +0000

I agree with Trisha and I’d like to know what security measures are being taken for the portables at Bratt. My child’s class is in one of those portables and that was the first thing I thought of when I discovered his classroom was there.

By: Mike P.

Mike P. — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 08:09:47 +0000

All of the fences, gates, locks, security doors, camera’s, and gun control you can imagine won’t treat mental illness. We need our publicly funded mental hospitals back. We need to make it as easy as possible for mental health professionals to identify, treat, and commit if necessary any citizen with a mental illness.

By: JustMe

JustMe — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 05:26:28 +0000

I say the school district needs to build fences around these schools like a prison. No one enters and no one leaves unless they pass through a sally port operated by a deputy period. Fence is a one time expense…deputy is about 30000 a year.? Don’t know what they make…but I’m sure that’s pushing the top on their salary. Any amount of money that must be payed would be well worth it to know our counties kids are safe. If some county would step up and do this and get it published then it may take a dominoe effect and others throughout the country will…which in turn will protect all of our children.

By: maybe

maybe — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 02:24:23 +0000

i have been told that at one time in alabama the school teachers were deputized.perhaps a twist on that could be part of the solution. ask for volunteers to be trained and deputized. then when a situation came up ther would be a better chance of stopping a crisis before it esculated to a catastrophe. extreme, perhaps, but it would give our children and grandchildren a better chance at surviving. onr armed teacher, coach, administrator could possibly stop an attack before it got bad. taking out a threat at the start seems preferable to the alternative. sure we all have rights, including the wackos. i feel that our right to protect our children by far exceeds the rifht of someone who is planning harm to our familiy. extreme, perhaps. extreme situations call for extreme measures.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 19:31:47 +0000

I feel like throwing up when I think about what those parents must be going through. Why can’t those people (mass murderers) just shoot them selfs and burn in hell why kill others?

By: trish

trish — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 17:38:49 +0000

What about the portable buildings on Bratt campus? They look like trailer doors and probably could just be kicked in if a situation like this happened here…Perhaps we need cops at “our elementary schools” too……