On the heels of The Tennessee Star’s report in which a security expert recommended that schools implement ballistic glass film to deter and prevent school shooters, another security expert has recommended that schools implement ballistic glass.
“So even if you shoot it 100 times, you’ve still not gained access,” said Wayne Gregory of Ever Safe, as reported by FOX17. “You’ve only put holes in the glass. And then beat it out of the frame of the hammer is the only way to get in.”
Gregory said that ballistic glass gives police more time to respond to critical incidents like the one at The Covenant School.
“So when they make the first impact against a piece of glass door window, whatever the clock starts right then, and [a school shooter’s] window of opportunity is narrowing,” said Gregory.
Aaron Spradlin is the CEO of Pale Horse Security, a private firm that “secures assets, people and environments where safety may be compromised.”
He spoke with The Star’s editor-in-chief and CEO Michael Patrick Leahy less than 24 hours after the shooting on Tuesday morning on The Tennessee Star Report.
Spradlin’s company secures buildings, including schools, with a similar method.
It has wrapped more than 25 schools with ballistic film, which also disallows bullets from breaking glass.
“Armchair quarterbacking is not something I like to do,” he said. “The first thing I would have done there, because that was the most vulnerable entrance, I would have added at a minimum ballistic film on the glass.”
“What that would do, is it collects the energy of the round, which would really depend on what the round is and the caliber, and it stops it from going past [the window] because of the way it’s designed,” he said. “You start shooting into that target and not getting anywhere, that’s going to deter the suspect and off they go, because there’s no breaking of the glass to climb through.”
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Pete D’Abrosca is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network. Follow Pete on Twitter.
