“...are working to educate school communities about simple and inexpensive ways to make their buildings safer, particularly during emergencies due to an intruder, the weather or a fire. ...”
Well, Step One would be undercover armed guards to prevent a shooter from ever getting started.
Step Two would be armed teachers who are trained and proficient.
Nothing stops an active shooter like someone returning fire.
Anything else is just fluff.
Perhaps the reason little has been heard about this organization is because they aren’t affiliated with the Sandy Hook exploiting anti-gun groups: http://www.safeandsoundschools.org/frequently-asked-questions-safe-and-sound-schools/
Gosh, being a Sandy Hook parent sure has a lot of perks to it!
And there is a surprising number who seem to be attending gun control meetings so they can “share their story” to a silenced room.
It would be great if someone were to follow one of them out to a car and see where they ACTUALLY came from.
I am beginning to suspect Sandy Hook has more to it than we have been told.
Q: Does Safe and Sound take a position on gun control?A: We do not. We choose to focus on keeping children safe in schools by empowering school communities to improve their safety and security practices, plans, and measures. We believe this is the most effective way to keep schools safe in the face of the many possible dangers and threats they may face. We believe this is the most direct and productive way to affect change now.
Q: Does Safe and Sound have a position on security guards and/or police officers in schools?
A: We advocate for highly specific preparations, plans, and measures tailored to the safety and security needs of each school building and community. Security guards and police officers are one possible measure schools can put in place to improve safety. At Safe and Sound, we advocate for multiple layers of protection in order to best secure the safety of your school community.
Further, a thoughtful, professional security assessment within one community may warrant the employment of security guards or police officers while it may not be warranted or practical in another community. This decision belongs to each individual school community and will depend on the needs, budget, and desires of that community.
At least one of the proposals linked at its site involves a gun safe at school, however there would be only one rifle and the safes would be accessible by fingerprint recognition, and only the school's resource officer would have access to the rifle.