At my elementary school up the hill they already changed the face of the building that was constructed in the '30s to eliminate the two front doors to one. And then on the wings that were added in the 50’s they removed the doors in the classrooms that gave immediate access to the playground.
And then at my HS up on the other hill it was designed and finished in the 50s. It had separate buildings with covered walkways. Now with time and rising attendance more buildings were added, no easy outside access to buildings.
All of this costs a heck of a lot of money to harden these campuses, money that is not being spent on teachers, supplies, books, or other activities.
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This commentary is cathartic to a minimal degree.
Politicizing of an event is accomplished in Jordan’s post. It was politics that flooded the world with guns designed to provide maximum kill rate in the shortest amount of time. Jordan’s fuckery is as predictable as Wednesday following Tuesday. Jordan and other politicians who are complicit in the deaths of innocents will be remembered as people who provided no redeeming societal values. People like fellow Republican, Rick Scott.
People of this ilk bask in NRA largesse while Rick Scott proclaims that we should, "Pray for all facing the unimaginable in Nashville.” That is just like he said in 2017, “The most important thing we have to do is we need more prayer rather than less,” after people were slaughtered in a Texas church.
Scott reached for this tired old saw one year later after a mass shooting in Florida when he again called for, "Prayer is important. What can we do to get people involved in faith?” Oddly, that same year, Scott signed a toothless gun control law into effect that allows local authorities to ignore this law’s restrictions on gun sales.
I do not mean to make this comment all about Rick Scott and that cretinous Jim Jordan. They do provide a focal point for the worthless thoughts, worthless prayers, and even more worthless actions among those who are beholden to the NRA cultural identity that condones wholesale slaughter. These Republicans continue to afford deranged people the means to maximize their kill rate. It makes me wonder how, after so many years of being wrong about the causes of mass shooting deaths, a moment of clarity will arrive among these people who make public policy. I’m certainly not going to pray about it.
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This shi mess gets old.
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One bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma forever changed how federal buildings are built. Set back I think a minimum of 8 feet from any roads, bollards or similar blocks in place to prevent vehicles getting too close, bulletproof glass, armed security and screening.
Why we haven’t placed anything like that as a priority for our most vulnerable is something that should be better addressed.
Even if you outlawed all guns tomorrow, they’re still going to be out there for decades, absolutely need to be making hardening schools part of trying to stop this shit.
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10% of the sports program would cover that and much more.
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Then more first grade teachers would get shot by unhappy students.
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The Missouri legislature and MO AG is trying this with St. Louis County’s DA. So if we can’t elect our own gov’t officials…?
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He knows. Watching with interest and disgust at the reaction to this particular shooter being a transgender woman. Who is conveniently in the deceased category and can have her character assassinated for either or both reasons (transgender or female) at will. Also an excellent example of why death penalty should suddenly become the necessary punishment for school shooters.
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Pray for the unimaginable? WTF. It’s the 19th time it’s happened this year and it’s not even April yet.
This isn’t ‘unimaginable’. It’s super predictable and happens over and over and over again. But we choose to sacrifice our nation’s children rather than give up our freedumbs.
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Representative Ogles is a “clown” in the very same manner that John Wayne Gacy was a “clown.”
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Well noooooo, in TN they ARE protecting children from the evils of drag shows so they’re doing their best!
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This is a hard one. I understand your point, but I basically think that you can’t turn schools into fortresses. At that point, they would no longer be schools, but rather something else. It would of course be impossible to get rid of all guns, but prohibiting the ownership and sale of semi-automatics : the guns of choice for school shooters, and high-round magazines, is certainly possible. The fact that an advanced economy hasn’t already done it is pretty amazing when you think about it.
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“…shall not be infringed”!!! /s
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Counter: people are asking teachers, janitors, safety officers and one cop (Ted Cruz’s proposal) to do what Congress can’t seem to do (due to current Republicans).
Also, you could fortify and harden every school until Ragnarok, but that’s not going to stop a determined shooter from getting extreme.
Once that happens, then what?
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100% not interested in enriching some right wing donor’s pockets by giving them a contract to turn schools into military bunkers.
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I noted yesterday with the reporter that said she’d lived through a school shooting - this is going to become more and more prevalent.
Next thing is, the minions will complain these reporters who’ve lived through this and survived can’t be fair and balanced.
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When asked about the message, Alonso testified it was all “‘locker room talk,’ if you will.”
No I won’t, fuck you very much for asking.
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Just wondering, will Uncle Ted support an increase in taxes to provide the revenue needed to station one or more patrolmen in every school without undermining existing police duties?
Or will this be another unfunded mandate, like NCLB?
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