Saturday, September 07, 2024

Devices Credited with Saving Lives in Georgia School Shooting

A new panic alarm system is credited with saving lives during a school shooting at Apalachee High School, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.

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... The devices are worn as a lanyard. The sequence of button presses alerts school administration and school resource officers and, or the local sheriff's department to a life-threatening situation.

The button was pressed during the active shooting situation on Wednesday and the school resource officers began "actively looking," he said.

"These panic buttons saved a lot of time, and, in my view, probably saved a lot of lives," said Former FBI Agent & ABC News contributor Brad Garrett.

Tennessee passed Alyssa's Law in 2023 and is one of seven states where it has passed. Nine other states, including Georgia, have it up for consideration. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-09-06 09:01 PM

OK, my first thought upon reading this article is ...

The Republican legislators tacitly admit that there is a problem with the proliferation of guns in the Country.

But they choose to try to propose laws that resolve the symptom (alert law enforcement of a school under attack ASAP), and not the root cause (the proliferation of guns owned by crazies).


#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-09-06 09:05 PM

You know what's stupid? Armed guards protect our President and Vice President, airports, banks and even some shopping malls. But somehow we cant get armed guards in all schools.

#3 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-09-07 03:22 PM

But somehow we cant get armed guards in all schools.

Uvalde had one... didn't make much difference.

#5 | Posted by REDIAL at 2024-09-07 03:55 PM

We have a gun problem, and a racist problem

#6 | Posted by hamburglar at 2024-09-07 07:21 PM

#7 | Posted by organ_bank

I'm not sure why you rebel at being called a racist. A large part of the MAGA movement has been the effort to make racism acceptable again by the mainstream.

Your personal racism is emphasized each and every time Trump talks about the personal Characteristics of Kamala Harris.

#8 | Posted by Zed at 2024-09-08 08:32 AM

Why are you stalking me?

#9 | Posted by organ_bank

You post on an open forum?

You don't want reactions, don't come here.

#10 | Posted by Zed at 2024-09-08 10:57 AM

Why do you keep associating me with Trump?

#9 | Posted by organ_bank

Let's call it intuition.

#11 | Posted by Zed at 2024-09-08 10:58 AM

You don't want reactions, don't come here.

POSTED BY ZED AT 2024-09-08 10:57 AM | REPLY

LOL

#12 | Posted by eberly at 2024-09-08 11:19 AM

#12 | Posted by eberly

This means you.

#13 | Posted by Zed at 2024-09-08 11:34 AM

You know what's stupid? Armed guards protect our President and Vice President, airports, banks and even some shopping malls. But somehow we cant get armed guards in all schools.

#3 | Posted by lfthndthrds

You know what's stupid? Adults demanding kids go to school in prison light just so they don't have to give up any of their safety blankets or, god forbid, own them responsibly.

#14 | Posted by jpw at 2024-09-08 02:21 PM

"You know what's stupid?"

Yes.

We do, pal.

That would be you and your idiotic ideas.

#15 | Posted by Angrydad at 2024-09-08 05:09 PM

Organ Bunk is a racist

#16 | Posted by hamburglar at 2024-09-08 05:42 PM

You know what's stupid? Adults demanding kids go to school in prison light just so they don't have to give up any of their safety blankets or, god forbid, own them responsibly.

#14 | POSTED BY JPW

Interesting that you said that.

These look exactly like the devices they use in prison.

#17 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-09-08 08:51 PM

Only in America do the schools have to divert funds from classroom supplies and salaries to harden school doors, windows, install safe rooms, armor classroom doors, install panic devices, etc so they can worship at the altar of the god of cheap, easy to obtain mass shooting weapons and ammo vending machines because they are afraid of the NRA and a voting block that is paranoid of home invasions and government tyranny (while supporting a candidate who wants to be a tyrant).

Idiocracy/Brain Worm/Couch humper 2024

#18 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-09-09 11:16 AM

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