From our cold dead hands: DC Republicans cling to guns in wake of Texas shooting https://t.co/o8E292ZUlD
— Raw Story (@RawStory) May 26, 2022
Because the principle hasn't changed. The second amendment hasn't changed. The constitutional right hasn't changed,” Cramere matter-of-factly replies. “The vast, vast, vast, vast, vast majority of gun owners are law-abiding citizens. We still are the freest country in the world. So none of that has changed in that decade.”We are free to be shot to death in our schools and grocery stores and shopping malls and churches and synagogues or wherever four or more of us are gathered together. This is apparently a necessary adjunct of the Second Amendment. A single sentence written in 1789.
I know we think, thanks to TeeVee and movies, that every town in America has a heavily militarized police force with a SWAT team ready on a moment’s notice.According to officials:
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) May 26, 2022
- the shooter went in a classroom and locked the door
- police on scene left him in there
- when border patrol showed up they couldn’t break down the door
- after 40-60m they got a member of the school staff to unlock it with a key https://t.co/0V1JJOkY2B pic.twitter.com/Dwt0vGfKtQ
Uvalde, Texas is a small town, and not a rich one. The city police had to rely on the Border Patrol because Uvalde doesn’t have the equipment or the people trained in handling these situations.
And the whole idea that good guys with guns won’t be stopped by a locked door is another trope of action movies. Real life is not an action movie.
And, of course, the idea that doors will save us. Locked doors only work when they are locked before the shooter arrives. Which means some are suggesting we turn schools into prisons. High security prisons.
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