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Texas Mandates Panic Buttons In All Classrooms In Response To Mass Shootings (www.huffpost.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This is a response. I guess it's something you can do. But it doesn't seem like it's going to help much - it will have so many false positives cause kids, but not really be accessible in an emergency.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I guess it's better than the "guns for teachers" bullshit, but fuck... Surely we can do better

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I do genuinely hope no teacher ever goes postal with a gun issued due to that rule, but I do wonder what the reaction would be to a tragedy like that - a new rule to issue guns to all students when they enter the school so that they can defend themselves? The mind boggles...