Shooting of the Day
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"A Texas education authority has fortified its schools against a mass shooting with facial recognition systems, people-tracking technology, mobile phone panic buttons and an arsenal of semi-automatic weapons.
“My philosophy is, you fight fire with fire,” said Mike Matranga, a former US Secret Service agent hired last year to improve security at the district’s schools after shootings at two high schools killed 27 people.
After eight months of work, the corridors, classrooms and playgrounds of Texas City’s 14 schools are guarded by measures that cost $6.3 million, paid for through bonds and general funding.
The facial recognition software scans everyone entering, looking for people not allowed on school grounds. Classrooms and exterior doors will soon have electronic locks that Mr Matranga, 41, can control from his phone. Staff have had training in how to assess and respond to threats because, as teachers, “they don’t have a combat mindset”, he told The Wall Street Journal.
Parents are relaxed about the 22 military-style AR-15 assault rifles with silencers that Mr Matranga bought for $41,000 and stashed in dedicated gun safes at the schools, he added."
seems legit
- you can take Mike out of the Secret Service but you can't take the Secret Service out of MikeBluejam
- That's a lot of money, silencers are a nice touch though.PhanLo
- so the psychos wait and do it at the football game, or a school trip or during a fire-alarm drill or at prom or a house party etc_niko
- Often it's a kid from the school that goes postal so I wonder if the face stuff will matter.PhanLo
- It’s almost always someone who should be there.monospaced
- Wow, this is stupid. Silencers? wtf. Like recognizing the id of someone walking down the hall with an AR-15 is going to help!formed