Let's get back to cause and effect. It was a bad bill chasing a sign, sound bite Yeah. That ultimately led to this decision. Right? It wasn't we didn't solve anything. We have elected officials who went up there and said, okay, we're gonna pass house bill three and they did it and they didn't fund it. They knew it was an empty wasteland. Because they had an ex an exemption form right out of the back. What is your what is your reason why you cannot comply? So that was built in. Well, the one reason is funds. Nobody has the funds. It was empty right out of the beginning. If you if you say, hey, I mandate this unless you fill out this form and tell me why you can't adhere to the mandate. What what is that? Hey, this is the law unless you fill out this form and you don't have to follow the law. Well, but it's the same thing with with SB eleven. I know. That we passed in two thousand eighteen. We watched the three individuals who were responsible for safety and security in schools in the state of Texas that I testified with Melt down. To yeah. Complete meltdown. It was like nuclear meltdown. Push the button. Everybody melted down. Nobody had answers. You know why? Because no one gave a damn. They don't. And they didn't want to. And they still don't. They still don't. You know? And so you know, two thousand twenty two after that that, testimony, the question was asked by the Senate How many districts from two thousand nineteen when the bill was passed? How many districts had been compliant with their state the audit to see if there was any even anything that needed to be mitigated throughout Texas's public education schools and less than eight percent of schools even complied with the law. It's not a recommendation. This was the law that was passed in as a result of Santa Fe. Eight hundred schools. It was more than that. Yeah. It was it was it's ridiculous. It's ridiculous. But but no one lost their job. But they got more funding. They got more funding and and they got fifty million dollars in shields Shield. After you valdie. Right? Because that's what they needed. Yep. But what what's bothering me the most is that parents are not freaking outraged Like they're not informed. Get informed. Start asking questions. You know, it it's it's ridiculous. And it this this vicious cycle continues to happen over and over and over and over again because no one is being held accountable. And when I speak, they're like, oh, Mike's on his on his soapbox again. Mike's calling everybody out. Yeah. You damn right. I am. Because I care. And unfortunately, unfortunately, everything that you're saying is gonna be relevant again. Because we're on borrowed time. It's gonna happen. It's gonna happen again. It'll happen. It's not like it's already happened. I mean, we're, you know, look at look at David Reedman Yeah. You know, I I like to give David credit because he's doing a damn good job. David Reedman's got a a a website. Yeah. He's data scientist. Yeah. Data scientists. I I can't please forgive me. I can't remember the website right off hand, but Google David Readman He's basically created a website that collects data weekly on school shootings and violence in America. Yep. Week one of school this year at extracurricular activities, there was eleven shootings. Eleven. I looked at this this past week. He put out another briefing. There was at least eight. Yep. Some homicides on school campuses. Absolutely. But yet, we wanna talk about HB three that's putting a guardian on a campus or armed officer or retired officer when in reality, no one's looking at before we even do that, do they even have a behavioral threat assessment plan in place? Do they have a emergency action plan. Do they have an emergency operations plan? Does the person who's in charge of command and control even know what they're doing and are they fied. The answer is, in most cases, no. There's some very good, very good programs out there. Very good leadership. But for the most part, the answer is no. They don't even have the baseline of what's required, and yet we're talking about putting more officers or more security officers in schools that does nothing to enrich the climate and culture of the campus. That is based in data facts. You say that there are some good programs out there. I I I've I've totally compared to what there is. Okay. Very good. Because I I I don't think that we've come across anybody who has their stuff together. I mean, the reason why you and I have jobs and that this continues to go on is that every time it doesn't matter what facility we go into. We find some that have a piece of the puzzle. Right? Yeah. Most, we find nothing Right? Like just complete in total chaos. Like he said, some of them don't even have doors that lock. Right. And so we we have, you know, some that we find out, okay, hey, that's a really good step. You know, and and and and it's surprising. Right? Like we were at a at a school, you know, recently and we were doing the walk through and And they had built their own trauma kits and had them in every classroom and had done training a couple times a year and there were larger med kits available. And it was one of those things that you're like, Alright. Hey, this is this is refreshing to see. We we don't see this very often. This is something we talk about. But then you talk about anything else and that school was just like didn't have any complete mess. Right? And so we just we just see this over and over and over again. And it, and it's one of those things that we can keep passing this stuff, but until there's funding associated with it, and it's a requirement and it has an independent third party that's actually out ensuring that it's happening. It's not gonna happen. Well, you but the problem is this too. And and we talked, you know, it's like yesterday. I talked about, you know, I posted something on LinkedIn about you know, the need for a a systematic approach. Right? Of identifying kind of putting things in priority. Right? But the problem is is that you have individuals like myself, who were looking at things from a needs based perspective of, okay, let's look at what we can fix immediately that's low cost. And then let's work our way down to, you know, caviar and champagne taste, right, if if that's where we can get to. Right? But the problem is is that you have individuals like myself who are consulting with schools or manufacturers, or distribution centers, corporations, you know, because we don't just do schools. We do workplace violence stuff too, right? Which actually has more cases than cases than schools. Yes. But people fail to understand that. But what I'm getting at is that we're trying to go in with the best of intentions of addressing and fixing what can be done first with low cost. Right? Because we know that a lot of these people or these institutions do not have the funding. Okay? But then you're dealing with massive corporations who are coming in and trying to sell unproven products rather than solutions we could do an entire segment on that. I mean, we could do a whole segment on that. And that is what's most frustrating is that we come in with good tensions. We're working with these individuals. We're looking at long term financial sustainability. We're looking at what's gonna be upfront cost, and then you've got someone coming in hanging this a shiny dangly thing saying, hey, look at my gunshot detection. Look at look at my look at eagle products. You know, I need you to look at Omni alert. I need you to look at, and I'm not listen, I'm just saying these names because that's what's coming to mind first, but or look at, you know, look at this mass notification system or this cool app that I've got. And these people go, oh, that's so cool. You know, wow. And then they never even or look at this look at this stupid ass luck, right? That I've got. And no one is ever saying, okay, before we buy that stuff, let's put together let's put together a plan. Yeah. Like, let's talk about in the event of a crisis how are we going to evacuate children with special needs? Let's talk about how we're going to coordinate with local law enforcement to provide a perimeter or to identify where a reunification or relocation site is. Let's talk about how we're going to get them from point a to point b. Let's talk about how we're gonna communicate or communicate in general. Right. Let's talk about emergency landing zones. Let's talk about where the perimeter is gonna be set. Who's coming and why are they coming? What's their qualifications? What's their response times? Before you go buying into that nonsense, Well, and I mean, we've we've met with so many people, right? Who've come in and they are like whether it's a big district, it's a corporation or it's you know, a small private school. And one of the things that we start in the very initial meeting is that they're what what do you think about this? And and I got this, right? And it's whatever product. And you just look at them and be like, yeah, we're we're so far away from that. That's That's the icing on the cake and you haven't even built the cake. Right? Like it's not even we're not even this isn't even remotely our radar. There are so many other things within this facility. We haven't even got the batter with baby, and they're talking about the icing. Yeah. They're they seem worse than sprinkles. Yeah. You know, it's like we gotta whip the batter first. We gotta put the ingredients in so we can get that going. Right? And I'm not saying that products are bad because we both know Let's let's say that this is a whole another topic because we could talk hours on this deal. It's it's gotten it's gotten bad. It's gotten worse. With all this this, you know, federal money and this grant money and all this stuff coming out there, We've seen companies that just literally popped up, like, you know, Texas had the spat grand, the silent panic alarm. Yeah. How many it how much bullshit product has come out under the market? Oh my god. It's it's as bad as COVID cameras. Yeah. You remember the temperature cameras. Oh, we gotta have temperature cameras. Oh, no. What about the, the the ion, the air, the air purifier Well, but I that I like the COVID cameras as an example. Yeah. Because, you know, we have a lot of clientele that called us and like, oh, well, we need to figure out and everybody's trying to do what they got. There's a ton of misinformation out there, but nobody was talking about it. I mean, we we as a company went the opposite direction and we took out a public, and this is really where, you know, some of our online posting and and and marketing, and we actually spent real marketing dollars on getting the word out to our customers that covid cameras were crap, right? And the stuff that was coming over here from China. Had a a accuracy reading. Ten degrees. What's or minus twenty degrees? You're seventy four degrees. Yeah. You're dead. You're dead. You're dead. You're dead. Yeah. But this camera would have said that that was a normal range. Yeah. And people didn't understand that. And then there's a reference camera and it needed to be able to to get a true accuracy of and and there was so much trash that came out and people bought them. Where were they at? When was the last time that you were in a building and you saw a temperature sensing camera? The last time I saw one was in Las Vegas in twenty twenty one Okay. At a hotel. So twenty twenty. Well, what happened to all that money? Well, we bought that people bought all these cameras. Well, I I did stuff. I did an assessment for a local school district here a while back. And, I noticed these big devices and, you know, know, sporadically placed throughout the school. And I was like, what are those? They're like, oh, it's our air purifier, you know, whatever the ion, you know, what was the the something raised or something. Yeah. I'm like, how'd that work out for y'all? Yeah. You had a higher COVID infection rate than we did. You know, and we didn't have that shit, you know, because that was a school board number. At a local district, there was a neighboring district. This was another district in our area. If we had little lowest numbers,
