Lies.
Another school shooting
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Lies.
Fox News guest suggests equipping classrooms with 'ballistic blankets' instead of taking away guns
In the wake of yet another horrific mass shooting at an elementary school, Fox News guests have been pitching new ways to keep children safe -- but none of them involve limiting American citizens' access to deadly firearms.
As The Daily Beast reports, former FBI agent Maureen O’Connell told Fox News' Bret Baier on Tuesday that it may be time to provide armed security at every school across the country, and also to give children equipment to protect themselves.
"Instead of parents buying their kids all these tools and toys and games, invest in the classroom to make it safer," she said, and then floated the idea of buying "blankets that you can put up on the wall that are colorful and beautiful—but they’re ballistic blankets."
Fox News host Sean Hannity, meanwhile, suggested militarizing elementary schools with armed security.
In the wake of yet another horrific mass shooting at an elementary school, Fox News guests have been pitching new ways to keep children safe -- but none of them involve limiting American citizens' access to deadly firearms.
As The Daily Beast reports, former FBI agent Maureen O’Connell told Fox News' Bret Baier on Tuesday that it may be time to provide armed security at every school across the country, and also to give children equipment to protect themselves.
"Instead of parents buying their kids all these tools and toys and games, invest in the classroom to make it safer," she said, and then floated the idea of buying "blankets that you can put up on the wall that are colorful and beautiful—but they’re ballistic blankets."
Fox News host Sean Hannity, meanwhile, suggested militarizing elementary schools with armed security.
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'Bankrupt conscience': Texas newspaper blisters Greg Abbott after latest mass shooting
Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott was blasted for his firearms policies as he began his general election campaign against Democrat Beto O'Rourke.
Abbott described the Uvalde gunman's actions as “Horrifically, incomprehensibly," which resulted in a harsh editorial from the Houston Chronicle, which took issue with the second word.
"But the second word Abbott used — 'incomprehensibly' — is just as much cowardice as it is a bald-faced lie," the editorial board wrote. "Of course it’s impossible to fathom why someone would shoot up an elementary school, or any school, but it’s hardly incomprehensible that it happened. It keeps happening, in Texas and across the nation. No one, especially not the governor of a state with some of the most inept, irresponsible and dangerous gun laws in the nation, should be confused, somehow unable to comprehend, the reasons for this never-ending tragedy of mass shootings in our country."
The newspaper said the state's permit-less carry legislation is moving the state in the wrong direction.
Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott was blasted for his firearms policies as he began his general election campaign against Democrat Beto O'Rourke.
Abbott described the Uvalde gunman's actions as “Horrifically, incomprehensibly," which resulted in a harsh editorial from the Houston Chronicle, which took issue with the second word.
"But the second word Abbott used — 'incomprehensibly' — is just as much cowardice as it is a bald-faced lie," the editorial board wrote. "Of course it’s impossible to fathom why someone would shoot up an elementary school, or any school, but it’s hardly incomprehensible that it happened. It keeps happening, in Texas and across the nation. No one, especially not the governor of a state with some of the most inept, irresponsible and dangerous gun laws in the nation, should be confused, somehow unable to comprehend, the reasons for this never-ending tragedy of mass shootings in our country."
The newspaper said the state's permit-less carry legislation is moving the state in the wrong direction.
Typical security guards are not trained in tactical warfare in schools with children nearby, especially against a shooter that's wearing body armor although many security guards may be retired police officers or employed by a security firm.
Very few elementary schools in the United States have armed security guards although there are more elementary schools with unarmed security guards.
The few schools these days that do have armed security guards are because of a threat that the police notified the schools after receiving an alert/tip to the school.
By the way, the following states allow teachers to be armed although the below list is from an article a few years ago:
- Alaska
- Idaho
- Illinois
- Michigan
- Missouri
- New Hampshire
- Oregon
- Rhode Island
- South Dakota
- Utah
- Wyoming
I remember a few teachers from my elementary and high school...private schools. A few of those teachers I would be afraid to go to school if they had been armed because they were the types that acted as if they were about to have a psychotic breakdown...
I use to have nightmares that one of them would go on a shooting rampage and shoot all of her students because she was having some serious problems in her personal life.
Imagine the a new requirement to be a school teacher:
- Close Quarter Battle
- Close Protection Operations
- Rural/Urban Shooting Operations
- Maritime and Armed Operations
- Time Sensitive Operational Planning Programs
- Convoy / Motorcade Operations for Evacuation of Children
- Counter Attack Team Operations
- Active Shooter Operations
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Many of these so-called "common sense" gun control measures are anything but. Apply these rules to the mass shootings and see how many would have been prevented. See how many criminals who use illegal firearms would have stopped using them because of your "common sense" gun laws.
Also, did you know that you can 3D print this now?
go ahead and make bump stocks, magazines, whatever, illegal. People will just 3D print them and sell them. Criminals will still use them.
Legal and responsible gun owners (the vast preponderance) don't commit crimes. And by the way, it was a good guy with a gun that happened by and stopped this particular shooting.
how about we keep guns from easily being bought by questionable people or enforce strict license laws.
The kid in texas bought guns on his 18th borthday with no background check or license required
This is all bullshit. American children are massacred like nowhere else on the planet. Their little bodies are torn to shreds then they die in pain and fear because of people like you. You need to change your mind about this stuff. What is wrong with you people?
In this particular case in Uvalde, Texas the shooter purchased the guns exactly on the day he turned 18. Based on information found on social media -- the shooter also had a lengthy history of psychiatric problems. Any type of common sense gun law that blocked mentally unstable people from purchasing guns would have likely prevented this shooting.
Texas Elementary School Shooter Apparently Messaged Woman on Instagram About Plans For Massacre: ‘I Got a Lil Secret’
https://www.mediaite.com/news/woman...stagram-about-plans-for-massacre-ima-air-out/