Posted on 02/24/2018 12:57:39 PM PST by Eddie01
A Wisconsin high school student was inspired by horrific school shootings to invent something that could save lives.
Somerset High School senior Justin Rivard invented a tool he calls the "JustinKase" in shop class. Made of steel plates and connecting rods, his device slips beneath a classroom door and latches to the door’s jam. With his device in place, Rivard has yet to find a person who can push a classroom door open, including linemen from his high school football team.
“You can lock a door with a lock, it can get shot out,” he says. “You can lock a door with this, it can't get shot out. You can't get around it.”
Rivard didn’t have to go far for his first big sale. Somerset High School ordered 50 of them, one for every classroom in the building.
“We started with the high school, then went to the middle school, then the elementary school,” says Shannon Donnelly, Somerset’s principal.
The JustinKase sells for $95.
Donnelly keeps a JustinKase under her desk as well. She expects everyone in the school to know how to use one.
“We immediately, within a week of having these, went through an entire drill, all throughout the building, really walking through students and staff,” she says.
Rivard already has delivered 54 of his devices to the Grantsburg School District in Wisconsin, with 40 more on the way.
He knows of at least one company making a similar device but says his can be put into place faster and costs less. Rivard is waiting for approval on his patent application.
Eric Olson is the technology and engineering teacher at Somerset High School. He’s not surprised by Rivard's creation.
“He's the special combination of motivation and brains and has a motor that just keeps going,” Olson says.
Not much good against an axe-wielding rampager, though.
that’s a lot of axe wielding to get through a school door.
Wait until the axe slips through and pull it out of the assholes hands unlock the door and chop him into tiny little pieces.
Upper swing to clear the balls.
This is pretty cool, and could help those who shelter-in-place during an active shooter situation.
It is a partial solution, however. Not everyone will be in a position to shelter-in-place.
There has to be an immediate, armed response as well.
Very doubtful.
With solid core walls. Drywall is easily breached.
What people are forgetting is that if you fortify the building a determined psycho will wait for the Friday night game and target the bleachers. Or the school busses.
No one is forgetting that except in your imagination.
Wait till the LIBERALS get together and figure since he designed and built it in the SCHOOL SHOP, was working out of the SCHOOL, that they will invoke the BO mantra
“YOU DIDN’T BUILD THAT”,
Then tax the crap out of him and make him sorry he ever suggested it when he can’t produce it fast enough for .02 LOSS per unit....
“There has to be an immediate, armed response as well.”
Yes. Team sport.
Problem is when the FBI or Sheriff’s department are not on the team for political reasons.
No greater cowards exist at the moment than those Broward Co. cowards in America today. Yellow bellied.
The sick secret is the Sheriff gave a stand down order.
Who’s got the scanner recording.
Wait for it...
I was unaware that the word teen could be used to describe somebody other than a perp
This is a prime example as to why our high schools should never have eliminated shop from the curriculum. Kudos to this young man and his creativity!
No. I believe that is covered in the article. (I read it at another website.)
Eddie01 wrote:
““There has to be an immediate, armed response as well.”
Yes. Team sport.
Problem is when the FBI or Sheriff’s department are not on the team for political reasons.
No greater cowards exist at the moment than those Broward Co. cowards in America today. Yellow bellied.
The sick secret is the Sheriff gave a stand down order.
Who’s got the scanner recording.
Wait for it...”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3634962/posts?page=30#30
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The Sheriff gave a stand-doen order?
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Need link...
That is sick!
If you are correct, part of the reason is that the shooter doesn't want to be waste time breaching a door; he wants to move on to easier targets.
Shooters don’t need to get through doors when the kids are running around the school during lunch or between classes.
Shooters don’t need to get through doors when the kids are running around the school during lunch or between classes.
I guess locking doors is just to complex a solution. Or maybe it’s just not inclusive enough. Just locking the bad guy out could be the delaying factor that gets them killed before they can do grave harm.
So are a lot of stories coming out of schools these days.
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