Ted Cruz, a leftist activist who suggested single-entry school setups was a good idea to keep out shooters from attempting to enter schools to start firing. This created a furious reaction. It was in response to Uvalde’s mass shooting, TX.
After it became clear that the shooter had remained outside the school for twelve minutes before entering the building through an unlocked door, his suggestion was even more convincing. Before he entered the school, he faced no resistance from anyone armed or physical, then he locked the doors and killed 19 students.
Even though we know everything about the Uvalde shooting, the Left still believes that locking schools’ doors during the day is a terrible idea. The Texas Tribune published a hilariously insulting article on Saturday.
Some Republicans suggested that schools be restricted to one entry point in light of Uvalde’s shooting. School officials and safety specialists say this is not realistic. https://t.co/UpcgFHdhV9
— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) May 28, 2022
Multiple school and safety professionals agree that limiting schools’ access points to just one is not realistic.
Many schools have thousands of children, teachers and staff who could take hours to funnel in and out of a single entrance every day…
…“It is not feasible to think we’re going to ever get to the point where we have one door in and one door out,” said Bill Avera, chief of police and emergency manager for the Jacksonville Independent School District in East Texas and a board member of the Texas School Safety Center.
And while many districts sought to increase school security in the aftermath of Texas’ last mass school shooting in Santa Fe in 2018, teachers’ advocates and school officials fault state leaders for focusing on further “hardening” schools after the Uvalde shooting.
Of note is that the “gotcha” here against Cruz, i.e. that he said “into and out of schools” is a willful misreading of what he’s talking about. My children’s school has a single entrance during the day. The school has one entrance. It is locked by a magnet that needs to be opened from the outside. The school is not designed to feel and look like prison. The building itself is also old. The building is not of modern design. It does what it is supposed to do, but they also lock other doors out the rest of the day.
Cruz clearly meant that. It was not his intention to say there shouldn’t be any other entrances from the outside in this building. Editors at the Texas Tribune know that, but being the leftwing hacks they are, they chose to play stupid by going to “experts” that agreed to confirm their priors without an ounce of critical thinking. For example, why did they quote a Florida man who clearly was being ignorant? Do you know of any safety specialists in Texas? They do exist, however, they did not shop around for the right answer.
But again, something as simple and effective as saying “hey, maybe we should lock the doors during the day,” an action that would have probably prevented the children from dying in Uvalde, is scoffed at. What’s the reason? It could also be that there is a fire. Take a look at these responses to Texas Tribune articles.
Twitter is without doubt the dumbest site on earth. It is full of over-credentialed morons who cannot even comprehend the concept of an emergency exit. pic.twitter.com/fCq3Pvha1s
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) May 28, 2022
I’m trying to imagine these absolute morons encountering a fire door for the first time and treating it as some kind of incredible, unthinkable marvel. These doors are not locked from outside but can be opened by pushing a button inside. These doors are in every building across the nation, even schools.
Partisan detractors don’t want to even consider the one standard solution that would have saved Uvalde from such a tragedy. Even worse, detractors mock people who offer such an innocuous suggestion. Do they think the left is full of utter imbeciles, or dishonest hacks. The answer is both, and while I’ve tried to avoid politics in my writings on this shooting since Tuesday, this kind of dangerous idiocy deserves to be called out. They want to fortify the Capitol but won’t put a magnetic door in a school to protect kids? They’ll mask kids for two years and lock them in classrooms over COVID, but exterior doors are where they draw the line on making children adapt? We need to give each other a break. This stuff is not for sale.
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