While I am in support of protecting our children's safety, I do not believe a SOS button will have any effect. With all due respect to Rep. Gwen Graham (D-FL), your justification for this bill is that it will help better secure our schools from violence & potential acts of terrorism. I fail to see how a SOS button accomplishes this. If nothing else, it perhaps would give some a sense of comfort from a psychological perspective at best. If a school feels strongly about it, then they should fund it within their budget.

HECK NO! Let the school districts cut their "administrative costs" and/or work out a plan to get those devices through their state or local government! If I were in charge of a school district, the LAST thing I'd want would be any kind of "grant" from the federal government! That's like the horse that agreed to let a wolf ride on his back to cross a river. You can imagine how foolish the horse was to trust the wolf! IMHO, I don't think ANY part of the Obama Administration is deserving of our trust, least of all (perhaps) the Department of (In)justice!

I'm trying to think of a scenario where if a lone gunman, of even if there were multiple gunmen, kicked down the front doors of any school, rushed in, and started firing whatever firearms they might be carrying, how could this attack be executed in a manner which would incapacitate everyone in that building to the point where not even a single person could use either their own personal cellphone or a landline and call local law enforcement. I can't do it. I can't get there. Somebody, somewhere, on the premises will hear the shots being fired and be able to immediately call for help. So is there a need for grant money to be disbursed for local schools to have an "SOS" button in every classroom in case of a worse case scenario, even if that scenario was a health emergency or a national disaster in stead of a shooting? No there isn't.