Entrepreneur Explains Collapsible Protected Room for Faculties After Nashville Tragedy

One entrepreneur/inventor has a inventive and seemingly efficient means academics and college students can shield themselves in opposition to faculty shootings … a protected room embedded in school rooms.

We talked to Kevin Thomas Tuesday on “TMZ Stay,” and he broke down a product he sells by his firm, KT Options. It is principally 4 foldable partitions — they appear like dry erase whiteboards — a instructor can rapidly pull out to create a bulletproof shelter to cover youngsters in a nightmare just like the one in Nashville.

Kevin calls it RASR, or … Fast Entry Protected Rooms. They’re accessible to the general public, however are supposed for school rooms — as they provide educators/pupils a fast possibility to hunt cowl and safety within the occasion a mass shooter is roaming the halls … and cops aren’t there but.

Take a look at the video to see the way it works — the “room” is flat at first and might operate as only one wall or whiteboard for academics and college students … so it has multipurpose utility for the varsity past simply safety.

If there’s an energetic shooter scenario and a faculty desires one thing past locked doorways to assist, they’ll use RASR to open up a full-blown protected room ok for the army and authorities companies — so says Thomas. In different phrases, it is impenetrable.

There is a demonstration right here that exhibits you the way to do it … it is really fairly easy, and solely takes seconds to lock into place. It isn’t the everlasting repair to this ongoing situation — as Thomas notes — however this may actually save lives within the interim.

We requested Thomas what sparked this revolutionary concept, and he mentioned the Uvalde, TX faculty taking pictures pressured his hand. So far as the value, it is $50k for supply and set up — and whereas one may presume this could come out of a faculty price range … KT says that is not essentially the case.