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Texas Mandates Panic Buttons In All Classrooms In Response To Mass Shootings (www.huffpost.com)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This is a response. I guess it's something you can do. But it doesn't seem like it's going to help much - it will have so many false positives cause kids, but not really be accessible in an emergency.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It also triggers a tweet asking for thoughts and prayers. Everyone talks about how useless it is when people send their thoughts and prayers after a school shooting. This way, we'll get thoughts and prayers during the shootings!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

It also auto-updates the Onion article about school shootings automatically to the current date.