The shooting at Robb Elementary School in Ulvade, Texas has democrats pushing all kinds of gun control laws, none of which would have prevented the tragedy. Ted Cruz has a solid plan for single points of entry at schools with all other doors locked from the inside but democrats hate the idea because it would be effective and they don’t understand how emergency exits work.
Gunman Salvador Ramos was able to get into Robb Elementary School because all of the doors were unlocked and there was no armed resource officer on the premises. Texas Senator Ted Cruz has a solution to that problem that will work, which explains the mockery from the left:
senator Ted Cruz comes out bravely against doors.
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) May 26, 2022
“You want to talk about how we could have prevented the horror that played out across the street? The killer entered…through a back door. An unlocked back door…We talked about what we need to do to harden schools including not having unlocked back doors, including not having unlocked doors to classrooms, having one door that goes in and out of the school, having armed police officers at that one door,” said Cruz.
There is in no flaw on that plan. If all school doors are locked from the inside and there is a single point of entry with an armed resource officer, chickenshit mass shooters are not going to schools. Period.
Because the left hates solutions that work almost as much as they despise the 2nd Amendment, Cruz’s plan has triggered a predictably stupid response. Here’s Washington Post editor and columnist Karen Tumulty:
Wouldn’t building schools with only one door create other problems? Like making it harder for kids to get out if, say, there is a fire? https://t.co/L7T7SB2fbO
— Karen Tumulty (@ktumulty) May 26, 2022
Just trying to think this through…
— Karen Tumulty (@ktumulty) May 26, 2022
Would you also have to build schools with no windows?
— Karen Tumulty (@ktumulty) May 26, 2022
There’s seriously no thinking going here at all. Cruz didn’t say rebuild every school in America with a single door, he said have all the doors but the front door be locked from the inside. In case of a fire or other emergency, students and teachers could exit but bad guys couldn’t get in from the outside. It’s like this WaPo editor has never heard of an emergency exit before.
Same goes for Pete Buttigieg’s husband Chasten:
As someone who ran lockdown drills and worked on the school safety committee, a “one door” solution is an irresponsible and egregious recommendation far removed from reality. A shooter isn’t going to stop and sign in at the front office.
— Chasten Buttigieg (@Chasten) May 26, 2022
A door is good at keeping the kids in and rain out. It doesn’t stand a chance against a weapon designed to obliterate organs and render tiny bodies unrecognizable in the blink of an eye. If you’re focusing on doors right now, you’ve already given up. You have failed our kids.
— Chasten Buttigieg (@Chasten) May 26, 2022
Let me be clear: this is precisely what they want. They want to debate the merits of doors, windows, locks, cameras, badges, and armed teachers because they’d hate to be faced with yet another policy issue they are against the majority of Americans on.
— Chasten Buttigieg (@Chasten) May 26, 2022
The Texas school shooter got in through an unlocked door and there was no armed police officer on campus. Locked doors and an armed adult would have stopped this tragedy. Nothing democrats are proposing would have had any impact. Also, the AR-15 was definitely not designed to mutilate little kids.
The Bulwark’s Tim Miller went even dumber:
Have the people pushing the “single entry point to school” solution ever…seen a school?
Here’s my high school pls explain to me how that’s going to work. pic.twitter.com/J0iskrkidh
— Tim Miller (@Timodc) May 25, 2022
This guy went to a high school with doors in the middle of the football and baseball fields? Sorry, I guess I can’t explain how that works. Once again liberals stump us with stupidity.
And finally, Chuck Schumer used his imagination to make up an expert opinion on the matter:
Schumer knocks Senator Cruz. “Senator Cruz’s plan to limit schools to only one door. Fire marshalls and tactical experts totally and vehemently disagree. Let’s debate,” he said.
— Clare Foran (@ckmarie) May 26, 2022
What fire marshalls are against emergency exits? And for that matter, what tactical experts think securing the permitter is a bad idea?
Since all democrat “solutions” involve passing unconstitutional laws that will be ignored by criminals and cost tons of taxpayer dollars, they short-circuit when presented with a reasonable, workable, cost-effect idea.
