Safety Pods Presented As Solution To Help Keep Students Safe From Shooters and Tornado’s
This is an interesting article about National Safety Shelters. The company began as a mobility lift company, building equipment to assist disabled people . They have recently changed focus to provide these steel shelters to protect students from shootings and tornado’s.
Is this what we have come to? I dont know where you stand on this issue here is the argument presented by National Safety Shelters.
“A company in Fort Pierce, Florida – not far from Parkland, site of the 2018 school shooting that killed 17 – is stirring controversy with its plan to protect children from school shootings by hiding them in bullet-resistant steel enclosures.
To many, the idea of directing children into stark metal boxes serves as an alarming symbol of a country that fails time and again to address the causes of its gun violence crisis.”
John Corrado, vice-president of National Safety Shelters, says the company sees its shelters as a response to an intractable problem. “Obviously, the fewer the guns, the better. Because you can’t have shootings without guns,” Corrado says. “However, we’ve recognized reality. With the type of government that we have and the difficulty in getting laws changed … guns are here to stay. So you have to do something to protect yourself from them.” The idea, he says, is that the pods would be just one part of a “comprehensive solution”.
Children, the company says, can enter the shelters in the event of an attack “within a minute or less”. The pods, intended to accommodate a classroom’s worth of people, are built from “military-grade steel specially heat-treated to resist not only all handguns and shotguns, but even semi-automatic weapons like AK-47 and AR-15 rifles”, according to the company. The idea is that each classroom would have its own shelter, which locks from the inside with three bolts and a locking pin.
