Posted on 02/24/2018 12:57:39 PM PST by Eddie01
Those events have cops in attendance. Unless you are in Parkland there is a good chance they will return fire.
For safety reasons, doors which are the only exit to a classroom are BY FIRE CODE required to open outwards. A simple pivot bar on the door will keep it closed.
Neither would have stopped Cruz as he tripped the fire alarm to get everyone out of the classrooms.
Now killers can use this to lock students into classrooms before setting a school on fire, without ever needing to go through a background check.
In TOTALLY UNRELATED news, it turns out that there is no technology that can save idiots from themselves. Interesting isn’t it?
Too true, but your assumption is sick because those stories are very much the exception.
That's a very good question. Breaching a door, especially fire reinforced school doors, would be difficult. Reinforced entryways, vigilance with a robust security plan can minimize if not prevent outright an incident by substantially restricting movement. With an armed response, that helps substantially. From what I have observed, most attacks were carried out at the most vulnerable times, areas and especially when the teachers and student were essentially sitting ducks- just as liberals and school districts are perfectly fine with.
Fire axe ... in a school hallway?
How does a shooter even know it's in place? A shooter has other targets in mind than to figure out how to open a door.........Sheesh!
Awesome idea.
The Sheriff gave a stand-doen order?The sick secret is the Sheriff gave a stand down order.
Who’s got the scanner recording.
Wait for it…- Eddie01
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Need link…
Clearly Eddie was predicting that there will be a link. It’s not much of an extrapolation from the fact that four (count ‘em, 4) of his deputies were present outside the school listening to the sound of 17 murders and none of them went in.And that doesn’t count the deputy who was “monitoring” the event on 20 minute delay, thinking he was seeing real time - and not going in.
As I look back nearly 70 years high school shop classes are the ones I remember and use the most. Still a redneck wrench but it sure coulda been worse.
This shooter shot through the glass classroom windows in the door.
Remember though. someone set off the fire alarm so that kids would be in the halls like sitting ducks.
Perhaps the Broward boys and sheriff need to look into some silicone sex workers that be reprogramed to attack and neutralize shooters so their boys can go about their heavily fortified activities of choice.
If you flatten yourself on the wall with the door, he can’t see you. I remember all the glass in my schools having screen in them, so they wouldn’t shatter, so I’m thinking a shooter couldn’t break the glass and then reach in to open the door. Good chance to twist his arm off, otherwise.
I think actual exit doors have to swing out - most schools I have been in, the classroom doors opened in so they wouldn’t be out in the flow of traffic when everyone was on the move.
I think it depends on your fire code, if you state follows the International Fire Code it says the door must open in the direction of egress if the room has a capacity rated at 50 or more, must classrooms are rated 50+
Fire Code: 1010.1.2
https://codes.iccsafe.org/public/document/IFC2015/chapter-10-means-of-egress
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