Illinois Installs Police Alarms In Schools To Combat School Shootings

By Tom Knighton

There’s no one fix for school shootings. Anyone with half a brain will tell you that, regardless of where they stand on the gun issue. There will always be evil people who will try and use schools as the prime location for their murder sprees. The only way to prevent that is to abolish schools, and since that’s not remotely a viable idea, we have to look elsewhere.

In Illinois, some private schools have taken to placing alarms in schools that will notify the police if pulled.

Over 20 Illinois private schools have installed emergency alarms that notify police in the event of an active shooter, according to the Chicago Tribune. The blue boxes were installed over the summer as parents and administrators worry about the mass murders that took place in Parkland and Santa Fe last year.

“[Parents] really, sadly, are aware of this possibility,” said Rachel Gemo, head of St. Benedict’s Preparatory School in Chicago’s North Side. “They are not immune to what they hear on TV.”

The system was developed by a company called BluePoint Alert Solutions and works like the fire alarm systems students are already familiar with. The light blue …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms