Metal detectors, obviously

This is a question I would like to ask of all school districts: Why don’t you have metal detectors at the doors of your schools to keep the guns out? You can’t get into the Public Safety Building, where there is an armed law enforcement person every six inches, without going through a metal detector.

The new Ponderosa school has all the gadgets: a lockdown button, a gotta-be-buzzed-in door control and active shooter drills. A student invented a device to hold a door shut, but what do you do when the shooter is already in the room? The danger seems not to be somebody trying to force their way into your school but a student who has brought the gun(s) into a classroom in a backpack or under a coat. Students don’t have to be buzzed in, they just walk right in, uncontrolled, so to speak.

Again, why doesn’t every single person - student, teacher, principal, other staff and visitor - have to go through a metal detector before they get into your school?

Seems so obvious, doesn’t it?

Karen Buck

Spokane