Another school shooting, more unwarranted deaths, and more meaningless condolences like ‘thoughts and prayers.’ Unfortunately, school shootings and mass violence are becoming part of the curriculum for thousands of students nationwide. Incidences of students unloading on peers and faculties have increased rapidly since the infamous Columbine shooting. Although America enjoyed a brief reprieve from mass shootings during the pandemic (primarily due to remote learning and decreased enrollment), America’s notoriety for failing to protect its population’s most vulnerable demographic is spreading once again. Four people were killed and nine others were injured in a school shooting last week in Winder, Ga. Although congressional leadership is unmoved to implement serious gun control legislation, parents and teachers alike are seizing the initiative by investing in schoolhouse safe rooms and bunkers.
Protecting Children From the Whims of Deranged Madmen
America is home to the brave, land of the free, and refuge for the armed. Our love affair with firearms has now reached an infatuation of fanaticism. Conservative estimates reveal the country has more guns than people, with more than 390 million firearms insidiously permeating homes nationwide. What’s worse, an alarming number of weapons are improperly stored, allowing easy access for underage aspiring assailants. The FBI believes the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump was undertaken with a firearm absconded from the wannabe assassin’s father’s gun cabinet. Looking to tamper down firearm’s easy accessibility further, state lawmakers have now taken the bold legislative measure of charging parents of student shooters for unknowingly providing the means of mass destruction to their misguided children.
Community Safe Rooms Can Protect Children From Violent Perpetrators
We’re not urging you to give up your faith, but the feigned sympathy of “thoughts and prayers” ideology means little to parents of slain victims. Educational centers and school systems must be proactive in their approach. Our community safe rooms can protect large student populations and teachers from not only mass violence of epidemic proportions but also sporadic severe weather like tornadoes and high wind events. Each community safe room is comprised of solid quarter-inch steel panels capable of withstanding ballistic rounds and 250-mile-per-hour windspeeds. Furthermore, we customize the aboveground structure to your school system’s specifications with optional upgrades of bathrooms and floorplans, adhering to FEMA specifications for safety while not sacrificing comfort during these harrowing times. While internal panelized shelters for large populations require considerable demolition and renovation preliminary construction, our standalone safe rooms can be strategically placed near your school’s exit, allowing students to retreat to the nearby shelter outside quickly.
Panelized Steel Protection at Home
This blog isn’t a conversation about gun control and the Second Amendment. We’re not boldly advocating for the wholesale confiscation of your firearms or infringing your constitutionally guaranteed rights. Still, every school system should have a contingency plan for continuous protection during school hours. But the responsibility of protecting children and teachers begins at home with the firearm-owning parents. All firearms should be consistently locked and stored out of reach of the home’s children and guests who frequent the house. Although our panelized safe rooms were initially designed to protect residents during home invasions and tornadoes, they also can double as the ideal gun safe. Our panelized shelters are solid steel panels and can be easily retrofitted into any existing home office or closet. Gun owners can easily install racking and cabinetry within the panelized shelter for the discrete storage of valuable firearms while keeping them out of vulnerable hands. Contact us today for a free quote and consultation!
