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Building security doesn't involve only electronic gear, software and guards, nor is it just for specific building types. Buildings for all purposes should likely address security concerns during design.
Threats to building occupants can be lone individuals, acting from opportunity and using simple tools to enter and sometimes harm victims, but more often to steal their possessions to later sell. Some are lone perpetrators seeking notoriety or significance, through publicity of their planned and attempted mass murders. At the extreme end of security threats are organized mobs, trained terrorists and armed militia with advanced weaponry.
The last group will be a bit hard to resist, without excessive expense or an equally armed group to repel them. But for most potential threats, there are things we can do to identify that danger before it reaches us, delay entry until help can arrive or completely deny threats entry into our facilities and our lives.
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