R U Kidding Me? wrote:
Multiple high profile elected officials in Texas, including the Lieutenant Governor, and Senator Ted Cruz, have seriously proposed limiting all schools to one entrance in the wake of this week's horrors.
Are these people trolling? One entrance? What happens if there's a fire? What if a shooter gets through that one entrance and everyone is trapped inside? Also, do they not realize that children gather in large numbers at a thousand other locations, too? Are we going to turn every Chuck-E-Cheese, playground, and library into high security facilities, too?
These people have turned their brains into nacho cheese trying to avoid acknowledging the real issue. Given the option, I honestly think they would prefer to give every elementary school child a gun for self-defense rather than ban the sale of AR-15s or implement background checks for gun purchases.
One entrance does not imply one exit.
I work in secure buildings with tightly controlled entrances. Do you really think all the people who work in buildings like mine don't have to follow OSHA requirements? We have fire exits all over the place. They are locked from the outside and alarmed if opened. So the only time they are ever going to be open is if someone is running outside because of a fire or active shooter or something. They can't be propped open by a dumb person because there are loud alarms on them when they are open. If I open an emergency exit for non-emergency reasons I will immediately lose access to the building (aka I'll be fired because its a security violation). There are cameras on the doors so it's easy to know who opened the door when they weren't supposed to. Teachers or staff who compromise building security because they are too lazy to go out the front door in a non-emergency situation should be fired because they are putting kids' safety at risk.
People like you want to politicize even the simplest solutions and it gets people killed. The gun control debate is a separate issue that is understandably polarized, but controlling access to schools makes a lot of sense for a lot of reasons other than the highly unlikely case of an active shooter and everybody should be on board with it.
The technology to control access to a school through one point has existed for decades. Nothing new needs to be invented. For the $40 billion we sent to the Ukraine for a war that we don't need to be involved in, we could have secured every school building in the country.