I probably say this any time he comes up, but I went to high school with him! He gave me a cool behind the scenes tour of the capitol when we visited D.C.
That's not how it works. By code, school doors cannot be locked from inside. But you can't open then from the outside. You just push the bar from the inside and they open. There is no bottle neck.
What's to stop a shooter from shooting the window of the door and reaching in and opening the door. Need some bulletproof glass on those doors.
This is the grade school where the shooting took place. Multiple buildings. No way to make a single entrance.
It has nothing to do with being locked. The bottle neck is hundreds of people all trying to leave out of 1 door. That's insane. And I imagine also a huge fire safety no no.
Also to think that someone will shoot at a kid but not shoot a lock or door seems a little silly to me. If that is the case then all kids should wear a lock around their neck while at school.
I think what he is saying, is there are multiple doors, they are just all locked. The only one used as an entrance/exit is the front one except in emergency. The other doors would then be available for people to leave out of. Hence no bottleneck. There are still issues with that.
Keeping the doors locked from the outside during school hours is a good measure, pps does it, but yeah there needs to be more. A shooter could just shoot the glass in the door and reach in and open the door. It will impede them, slow them down, allow more time for students to get to safety, inside classrooms and such. Not much time though.
Arming teachers will lead to more shootings. A kid could wait till the teacher leaves the classroom and then break into their desk and take their gun. Are the teachers supposed to carry guns on them all day in all the school? Terrible. More guns is not the answer to gun violence.
Because we have high rates of desperate and ill people seeing other people who have what appears to be everything every day. It's the gini coefficient problem I've mentioned and linked many times. I don't think anybody has said guns are a solution for everything. Just that we have them and they aren't going to anywhere.
Where are all the shootings at the private schools our wealthy attend then? They are guarded by armed security...
No, unfortunately they are playing politics. If they weren't they'd be bringing different suggestions to the table.
