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Originally Posted by Einstein2
The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.
Oh, you did not get the memo as that is the old talking point.
The new talking point, as demonstrated by Ted Cruz, the person who receives the most "donations" from the NRA, is that "
we have to harden the schools."
He is calling for a single point of entry and exit as he says that will force the gunman to go to the door where the armed security will kill him. And he said it just like that. It is ordained and simple. The armed guard or cop will then kill him. Mass shooting averted.
Interesting that he does not seem to notice that the reports here are that this gunman was confronted by 2 or 3 cops before getting in but they were so outgunned that they retreated rather than confront and likely lose their life to an armored, armed with weapons of war, individual.
So imagine Ted's future, where the brave guard at the sole point of entry stands his ground and instead is the one killed, and not the 'bad guy' as Republican talking points suggest is always the outcome. Now that bad guy with the gun enters the sole point of entry and exit and no kids can get out without going past him. Now as other cops arrive they must bottle neck to get in, giving the gunman a confined area to try and shoot them as they enter.
Lets not even talk about a fire, and what that might mean if it somehow broke out in a way that prevented kids from getting to the sole point of entry.
The GOP answer is hardening the school into supermax like prisons such that there are no points of entry or exit (including windows) within reach and then forcing everyone in and out through one entry/exit. Truly genious.