This petition is to ask the President and Federal government to consider technology similar to banks alarms, for all school systems. ******** (Copied from the web) The silent bank alarm actually works more like a communication device than an actual alarm. it is widely used as a common method of alerting authorities to a crime in progress. In the case of a potentially violent crime, the silent alarm allows the bank to notify the authorities unbeknownst to the bad guys. This in turn greatly reduces the threat of violence to the employees and customers of the bank. It starts with the activation of a switch. A tiny button or buttons are hidden from view of the customers and their locations are known only by bank employees. They are hidden in such a way that bank employee can activate the switch without alerting the bad guys. ******* This could be used with 911 calls for quicker responses for acts of violence, missing or abducted children, expanded to day care centers and anywhere else the youngest, most innocent victims maybe for extended periods of time.