Posted March 26, 2019 4:00 pm by Comments

By Tom Knighton

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While so much of the post-Parkland discussion has revolved around guns, there’s always been the counter that part of the solution is to harden our schools. Right now, they’re way too easy for a gunman to access as evidenced by the sheer number of school shootings we’ve seen and that I’ve personally talked about. While they’re not the epidemic the anti-gunners claim, even one incident is too many.

But the fixation on banning guns has been bizarre. The tunnel vision by anti-gun zealots has distracted people way too much from more meaningful and actionable things we could be doing.

Congress, however, reacted quickly and set aside funds for schools to harden themselves. It seems that some are now taking advantage of that money.

Amid the rolling farmland of southwest Iowa sits the 7,800-population town of Creston, where the school district boasts of a “state-of-the-art school safety and security system” with a command center to monitor nearly 200 cameras, or roughly one for every seven students.

But the school superintendent isn’t done yet, thanks to a $500,000 grant from a program Congress stuffed into an omnibus spending bill a year ago. He plans to buy mobile metal detectors that could …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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