What is visual weapons screening?
Visual weapon screening is one of the most effective ways to detect a gun and in many cases even other weapons like knives that come to campus. Basically, it's training staff how to spot the physical behaviors of the gun violator. There's no viable profile of someone who will carry a weapon to school let alone use it. But there are specific behaviors that people perform based on the presence of the weapon on their body. Certain adjustments of clothing certain ways that people move and walk that can be used to detect the weapon on their body. When I was a school district police chief, we stopped six planned school shootings that were imminent, and that were about to occur. Three of those were stopped because our police officers could detect that someone was carrying a weapon visually by looking at them. Padded them down, recovered the weapon, arrested them and then we learned that they were there to shoot and kill people. So it's a very effective way to prevent weapons assaults like metal detection, gun detection dogs or tip reporting lines. It's not foolproof, it's not the only means, but it's a very effective way for school bus driver, teacher, custodian, or other staff member, in many cases to spot dangers before anybody gets hurt.
