Thanks guys, but no need to get off topic. The OP asked for opinions and I shared mine. For whatever reason the OP decided to bust my chops. It's OK, it's the internet!
Regardless of which handgun safe they use, I still think a CCW is a better choice. There are a couple school districts in TX arming teachers and there is one district (Argyle, TX) doing something similar to this Ohio district. All of these schools in TX are rural and I don't see any large school districts implementing any of these yet since we changed the law a year ago to allow storing guns on school property. Seems like they are just watching to see how well it works.
I agree wholeheartedly with you that on-person carry is highly preferable to stored out-of-reach weapons.
I'm a bit less agreeable to the notion that kids will go looking for and break into any kind of safe that might be distributed around a given campus. Could happen I suppose, but I don't see any more potential for that happenstance than successfully disarming someone who's CC'ing, which also carries very low odds IMO of happening.
We don't have kids and almost never have company, so I really have no need/use for an individual lock-box, but if I did, I would definitely stay away from the bio-lock variety for the exact same reason that "Smart Gun" technology is nearly universally panned by gun owners. A combination or key-actuated box will slow you down, but if a bio-lock box fails, it locks you out until you can perform whatever emergency steps are built into it for access, and by that time, you're likely dead if you really needed the weapon to begin with.
With that in mind, I have no idea why it would be deemed "ignorant" or "asinine" to state a preference for mechanical rather than bio-lock access to a lock-box. I seriously doubt that ezkl would call someone ignorant for not wanting a "smart gun." He's a good and smart guy though, so something probably just him weird about your post. I have nothing against Barska products, I own one of their rifle scopes and one of their red dot optics, but it doesn't surprise me at all that their safes are manufactured using 21 ga. sheet steel. They are a bargain-basement brand like "Under The Gun" (UTG) or NCStar or CAA products for guns and/or tactical gear. While I would, and in some cases do, use products from those companies, I would never hold them up as the pinnacle of form, function, or most importantly, safety, nor would I ever take offense if someone criticized them as sub-standard.
Still, if the school is going to hide lock-boxed guns around the campus, that's better than leaving teachers, staff and children completely unarmed and vulnerable to attack. I'd rather they institute a CC (or even OC) program too, but it's a step in the right direction doing it the way they're doing it, and I really don't see much potential for kids to gain access to them.
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