Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Sunday mentioned that the Republican recommendation to restrict college entrances to a unmarried door to forestall mass shootings is the “definition of madness.”
“The concept us being the one advanced nation the place this occurs robotically — particularly in the case of the mass shootings — is someway a results of the design of the doors on our faculty structures is the definition of madness, if no longer the definition of denial,” Buttigieg informed George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s “The Week.”
He didn’t point out any names.
However Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz maximum significantly pitched the single-door technique to give protection to kids from assaults by way of gunmen armed with attack rifles. Colleges could be higher secure by way of “having one door that is going out and in of the varsity [and] having armed cops at that one door,” he insisted.
Greater than 100 skilled, armed officials at the scene have been not able to forestall the killing of nineteen kids and two academics within the assault remaining month at Robb Fundamental college in Uvalde ― Cruz’s house state. It’s tough to know the way a sole officer stationed at a unmarried front can have made a essential distinction.
States with hotter climates incessantly have small, free-standing school room structures unfold all over a faculty campus, every with one or two entrances. That will imply armed guards or cops would wish separate safety stations at every school room door opening to the outdoor underneath Cruz’s plan.
But the “technique” has lengthy been a speaking level of the gun business, and used to be pitched as an answer after an previous Texas college mass capturing in 2018 by way of then-Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick.
Buttigieg, the previous mayor of South Bend, Indiana, mentioned if he have been mayor right through a mass capturing, like the only in Uvalde, the worst phase could be having to speak “to households of people that have misplaced their family members, and realizing that not anything you’ll do will deliver the ones family members again.”
“We have now a horrific scourge of gun violence on this nation, and, you recognize, as mayor — as each mayor is doing across the nation — you are taking the stairs that you’ll to scale back group violence, to put money into partnerships, to just be sure you’ve taken the stairs you’ll in the neighborhood,” he mentioned.
However “you’re additionally having a look at Washington to mention will the rest be other this time?” Buttigieg famous. “Can we in truth recognize the explanation why we’re the one nation, the one advanced nation the place this occurs on a regimen foundation?”
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