How might these incidents be prevented? Well, nobody can say for sure. One of the most popular ideas has been the installment of metal detectors at the doors of our schools. Needless to say, any parent (or anybody) would rather see on the six o'clock news that two students attempted to enter a school with an arsenal of weapons with intent to kill but were caught by metal detectors than to see that they were

Exactly. A great idea. So many people are quick to say that metal detectors need to be installed that they tend to overlook the actual process of doing it. It simply does not work like you may think in your head that it does. People seem to think that bam! you install metal detectors at the door and wham! any kid with a weapon will set it off, and will be frisked and promptly arrested. Unfortunately it is not so simple. Assuming that the money to buy and install them is not an issue, there are many more things that make it impractical. First of all, do you install them at every entrance to the school? Or do you lock most of them and pick a choice few? Wouldn't that create a fire hazard in the need for speedy evacuation? Kids do not necessarily enter school in a single-file line. What happens when four or five kids enter at the same time and the detector goes off? How many people do you need at each door to handle these situations, and how much time will this process take from the school day? We all know that metal detectors cannot specifically detect weapons only, they will go off at anything metal. Watches, rings, ke

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