cinepro wrote:Fence Sitter wrote:While the number of mass shooting deaths may be diminishing, pointing that out is like saying the number of NASCAR racing deaths has gone down so we don't have to worry about car crashes in general.
[...] I'm more worried about efforts to make our schools more like prisons.
A friend on Facebook had shared this link, which outlined ideas on how to stop school shootings (sans legislation, of course). Two of the ideas were to add metal detectors to all schools, and to have increased armed security at all schools.
I had a bipolar itch at the time, so I estimated what it would cost to implement just these two things (I can share my math/reasoning if anyone is curious).
Here's what I conservatively came up with:
$8,182,386,275 One-time Rollout Cost.
$9,911,652,757 Annual Repeating Cost.
ETA: The annual repeating cost would apply to the first year as well, so it would be an estimated $18,094,039,032 the first year to get it off the ground. To put that somewhat in perspective, that's about 16 times more than the FY 2018 budget request for school choice programs.