Posted on 03/28/2023 9:43:25 AM PDT by Hostage
Fed office needs to approve funds.
State submits shopping list of equipment and services that are appropriate and licensed, Fed office reviews against list they have or state attests to appropriateness of equipment and qualifications of service operations, Fed office approves funding and calendars installations and inspections.
Fed offices also require annual status reports from states. These reports serve to keep eyes on the ball.
This is not difficult.
Not if the Fed office doesn’t exist or have any funds.
Correct. Upthread tlozo posted link to funds but has strings attached, requires matching grants which translate to raising local taxes. So that’s DOA.
Schools are always struggling for funds; no way to raise funds to match grants.
The federal government should spend nothing for protecting the schools. The states can do it cheaper with state and local money. Florida does it by allowing teachers and staff with permits and gun training to carry in school. Signs are posted on the schools attesting to that fact. Schools in Florida do not get shot up after that policy was initiated and spread to most counties. The feds would convert schools into barred and ion door prisons with millions of dollars of electronic detectors at a tremendous cost. That Teachers may be armed notice on the school door is a far more effective deterrent.
WRONG.
You’re ignoring the possibility a mass shooting incident could happen again somewhere in FL.
Sorry, but you’re off on this one.
It will happen again and again until uniform standards are developed and implemented:
https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/parkland-shooting-trial-verdict-nikolas-cruz
Won’t happen wherever school staff are trained and may be armed and that fact is advertised. The one commonality in ALL the school shootings is that the target was a known gun-free zone. Church shootings have declined because several in the past couple of years were ended by armed members and Christians can no longer be assumed to be unarmed just because they are, well, Christians.
Your argument is that shooters will hold back if they think others may be armed.
That doesn’t align with the facts.
Shooters are suicidal.
Defenses are 1) Detection and 2) physical distance.
As an engineer and program manager, it is required to analyze all factors in light of protecting innocents from slaughter.
Airport Security is a good example as there are many layers of security that impede, if not prevent a suicidal person from entering areas where unsuspecting innocents are grouped.
Airport Security is uniformly implemented in the United States and other countries. It can serve as a template to establish uniform standards in school security.
The federal government has no constitutional role in education at the state level. However, it has a role in the peace, security, and well-being of its citizens.
It follows that the federal government can establish uniform security requirements that each state can implement in its own way.
Thus effort would not be unlike establishing roads, signs, signals, safety, conventions, and operating conditions of travel. The states work on their own to implement the codes but the end result is citizens can travel from one region to another, from one state to another with ease because the rules and conditions are similar. So it should be that school security should be generally uniform from one campus to another across the United States.
The point of such discussion is to ask why this is not being funded when it is observed that irrationally high funding is made available to foreign lands for which Amerucans have no interest.
Good grief. You point at me for inventing a “narrative?”
You apparently have not read the plans and motives of the killers as conveyed by persons close to them.
The recent shooter followed the same patterns as previous killers, cause something very bad to happen before dying.
Thinking armed persons might stop them does not deter them. Those are the facts.
What can deter them are physical barriers and detection equipment. Until they are suspected to have a dangerous weapon, armed persons are not going to stop them. Hence, detection is required. Until detection is found, the would-be killer must be held back using physical security. These are not constructs coming from me, these are fundamental features of protecting military bases.
I think you need to research more before wasting people’s time on message boards.
Keep supporting Ukraine but flush the god-awful squandering of taxpayer blood and sweat on their filthy green hoax.
It would be a complete waste of money. Our schools are pathetic.
You’re being logical.
how dare you
Why $100 billion to Ukraine and not to our schools?
Because its easier to launder it into offshore accounts when you got
a corrupt money hungry chump like Zelensky on the receiving end.
Btw, some $121 billion of your tax dollars (that could be used to protect our schoolchildren)
is over in Ukraine paying for govt pensions and salaries of govt workers.....
...........including salaries and pensions of 618,000 Ukraine teachers................
How about $$000 for both projects? The US government has no business giving money to either. Let the States of local governments do what needs to be done.
Everything the feds touch turns to crap and especially if it concerns $$$Billions$$$.
That, right there. 👆👆👆
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