Contractor installs bulletproof shelters at Alabama elementary school: 'I want it in every classroom'

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  • Source: Fox News
  • 04/12/2023
An elementary school in Alabama has installed bulletproof safe rooms in two classrooms to protect students in the event of an active shooter. 

The rooms were installed at West Elementary School in Cullman, Alabama, in late February as part of a pilot program. Since then, another school shooter killed three children and three adults at a private school in Nashville. 

"I want it in every classroom in the United States," Kevin Thomas told Fox News. "It's needed more and more every day."

The shelters are 8-by-8 foot rooms built with ballistic material that can stop any bullet that's been used in a school shooting to date. Dry erase material is on the outside so the rooms blend in with the classroom.
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