![]() "So it's all about, well, what's your child worth? I know what mine's worth. "I can tell you now, I have five children, and I have two grandchildren, you don't have enough money you could put in the Hudson Bay and fill it up that would make me trade that for one of them," he added. He said that "we came up with this idea to lay the financial landscape out so that this is not a burden on the schools to the way it sounds off the street." "Everyone says we're in 100 percent to drive costs down when we get the volumes to be able to do that," he added. ![]() That's not a scalable number … there's a number there that if you put it up there by itself it looks scary … but people need to understand that it starts in one place but it does nothing but goes down." "We have pricing based on the two or three that we've built that are in schools now. ![]() Thomas would not say how much each Rapid-Deploy Safe Room System costs, but local media has reported they are $60,000 each. There's three to five million classrooms around the United States." "Our goal is to have a million classrooms in a year. There are currently two deployed and he hopes to grow the company quickly. The Rapid-Deploy Safe Room System is the latest in uniquely American dystopian anti-school shooting tech, an emerging product category that includes bulletproof backpacks and desks, AI scanners designed to detect guns (but which are of dubious quality), ubiquitous surveillance, and architectural designs intended to discourage mass shootings. KT Outdoors also makes hunting blinds and modular housing units for use after natural disasters or as tiny homes to house people experiencing homelessness. "All the mechanisms are hidden when the door is closed, so you can't access from the intruder side any of the hardware." embassy to protect our government officials at a very, very high level around the world," Thomas said. "They literally make doors and locking mechanisms that we use in the U.S. Thomas, whose company "builds ballistic, rapid-deployment housing units for the military warfighter in our forward operating bases around the world," said that he partnered with Honeywell, Advanced American Technologies (which does material composites research), and a company called Cornerstone, which is one of the leading constructors of prisons, detention centers, and locking and security hardware used in prisons and jails in the United States. "This is because they asked us to do this. "Those parents said 'Do not let our children perish’ and nothing happened," Thomas said. On the outside of the device were photos of children killed in Uvalde. Last year, he went to the International Police Chiefs Conference in Dallas, where he showed off a small model of the device. ![]() Thomas said he was inspired to make the device after the elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas: "My wife called me crying about this Uvalde situation and said, 'We have to do something to fix this and protect children when these things happen.'" "That's been a blessing that I didn't see coming," he added. So it's actually had the exact opposite effect of what you and I would have thought before we had them implemented." "They can go in there and do free reading, play little table games and things like that. She leaves hers deployed all the time and it is a reward system that she has put in her elementary class where, when the kids do good things, they get a good grade, they read all their stuff, they do all their homework, they get a little free time on Friday in the Calm Cottage," he said. "The teachers said the kids actually call it the 'Calm Zone,' and they actually call it the 'Calm Cottage' now. "When we put these in, we weren't really sure how the kids would receive them, how the teachers would receive them, and we just knew that we had to give them an opportunity to go home, right?," he said. "I'm with you 120 percent when you say that 'I cannot believe we even need this,'" he said.
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