AI Gun Detection System Blows It In Nashville School Shooting

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AI Gun Detection System Blows It In Nashville School Shooting
By Tom Knighton | 8:30 AM | January 24, 2025
     
A school shooting in Nashville made a lot of headlines, but it wasn't quite what a lot of people think of as school shootings these days. Yes, it was a shooting and two people died--one of which was the shooter, apparently--and one person was injured, but it also wasn't quite Uvalde or Virginia Tech. It was, however, awful for everyone present that day and an innocent person lost their life.
 
It wasn't the first school shooting in Nashville in recent years, either.

After a shooting at the Covenant School, a lot of places stepped up their efforts to fortify schools. This is something I've personally been an advocate for.

The problem is that we need to use proven strategies or, if we're going to rely on new technology, we need proven backups as well. One of those unproven technologies we've talked a lot about here at Bearing Arms is AI gun detection systems, such as those deployed on the New York City subway.

I'm just not convinced they're ready for primetime.

In Nashville, it seems that, once again, we know the skeptics were right.

https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2025/01/24/ai-gun-detection-system-blows-it-in-nashville-school-shooting-n1227456#google_vignette

[Sighlass]

No metal detector, stuff it in a pocket walk in, pull when ready to use. Simple.

With Metal Detector, smuggle in one plastic part at a time, get creative on the rest (put in a school project, toss it in a second floor window).

As long as you are not waving it around, the AI is not going to detect it. I imagine at max sensitivity settings, it would produce a lot of false alarms.

[verga]

No metal detector, stuff it in a pocket walk in, pull when ready to use. Simple.

With Metal Detector, smuggle in one plastic part at a time, get creative on the rest (put in a school project, toss it in a second floor window).

As long as you are not waving it around, the AI is not going to detect it. I imagine at max sensitivity settings, it would produce a lot of false alarms.

After Columbine, the district I was working at considered a number of alternatives, guards at the doors, metal detectors, etc... I was teaching a group of gifted and talented. On Monday morning I told them they had to come up with a minimum of 5 ways to get firearms and/or explosives into the school if there were guards or metal detectors. They told me I was sick, I told them that was the assignment. IIRC they came up with at least half a dozen novel ideas that were not "variations" on a theme. I showed the results to the administration. They wee not happy to see how porus our school was.

[Sighlass]

After Columbine, the district I was working at considered a number of alternatives, guards at the doors, metal detectors, etc... I was teaching a group of gifted and talented. On Monday morning I told them they had to come up with a minimum of 5 ways to get firearms and/or explosives into the school if there were guards or metal detectors. They told me I was sick, I told them that was the assignment. IIRC they came up with at least half a dozen novel ideas that were not "variations" on a theme. I showed the results to the administration. They wee not happy to see how porus our school was.

Get on the roof and lower a High test fishing line down, haul it up the next day.