Idiot Republican Solutions To Mass School Shootings Part 2 Ban Doors Not Guns

In wake of the latest mass school shooting that has left 10 kids dead, Dan Patrick the Lt. Governor of Texas has suggested banning doors as a way to prevent gun violence in schools. 

“We may have to look at the design of our schools moving forward, and retrofitting schools that are already built, and what I mean by that is there are too many entrances and too many exits to our over 8,000 campuses in Texas," he said. 

Wow, the depths of the stupidity of your typical GOP politician sometimes manages to shock even me. 

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Really! Schools need to control the people who “enter” the buildings. Of course you have to have many exits for emergencies but not entry’s so much. It is going to come down to metal detectors at ALL entrances.  

Most offices in NYC have only a single secured point of entry, with entry permitted only with a building ID or a govt issued id; along with a confirmed appointment with a tenant

Most schools in the NY met area have a single point of entry, with entry permitted to those with a school id, or a govt issued id along with a confirmed appointment with someone in the school.

So why is Mark mocking the Lt governor for suggesting something that is already in place in many areas?

Schools aren't typically set up like an office building in New York City. They sprawl all over the place and often resemble a small college campus because of multiple buildings. My 13-year-old attends Middle School on a public school campus that consists of sperate buildings for the High School, the Middle School, Two Gym buildings and A Vocational Tech building. Combined there are around 1200 students between the Middle School and High School.  During a school day, kids move between the various buildings frequently.  Most of the kids that go there arrive by bus and the school schedules it so all the buses arrive within a 30-minute window before school starts. 

At a typical school, you couldn't do a single entry because of the multiple buildings on the campus. For example, my daughter's school would need a minimum five points of secure entry (one for each building) staffed with enough trained officers and metal detectors so the kids get through security in the 8 minutes they are allowed to move between classes and buildings every hour. I am not saying it isn't possible, but to get it done each school would need a massive security force and they would probably have to extend the school day by a couple of hours to allow the kids time to get through security.  The cost would be astronomical, but if you are willing to cough up an extra 10k a year in taxes to get it done more power to you. 

So, yeah, I am going make fun of the Lt. Governor because he is an idiot. The Lt. Governor also wants to eliminate exits. Keep in mind all those one entrance buildings become a kill chute if someone is able to slip by your one secured location. (That is what happened at Parkland)  What happens in the case of a fire? 

Where was the good guy with a gun to stop the bad guy with a gun?    Gee whiz.

 I understand why the NRA’s intellectual solution doesn’t work in liberal snowflake states but what’s Texas’ excuse?

So Mark's son goes to a rich suburban school.  However most schools are not designed that way

Actually, she goes to a very middle-class rural school district. Most of the school districts in the state are set up in a similar fashion as they are in rural or suburban settings. The reason the school was designed this way it because it was cheaper to bulid and cheaper to maintan. For example, when they needed to build a new middle school ten years ago they located it on the High School campus because the middle school students could dine in the High School cafeteria, use the library in the High School and the existing high school gyms.  The school district got out of paying for the construction costs for those duplicate facilities and the ongoing maintenance costs of having them. They also save money on staff as they don't have to have a separate library staff and kitchen staff for each school. It also allows them to hire someone they simply call the Middle School Administrator instead of paying for a more expensive and separate principal and vice-principal. 

Their long-term plan is to eventually close the 4 individual elementary schools in the district and move all the elementary students to one large elementary school on the same campus, so they can use the same, gyms, cafeteria and so on.  The Republican’s that run this state and keep cutting the education budget say it is an innovative way to save money.

Well you have bitched about what the Texas Lt. gov stated (of which I don’t agree with) but you never give an opinion of how to fix anything! All you ever do on this site is bitch and complain. As you do this, unemployment continues to go down and markets just continue to rise!

I think I stated my preferred solution in the last thread.  Since you missed it, I will state it again.  I think we should follow Australia’s lead.  

There is even a Republican plan I could get on board with although, don’t think it would be as successful as doing the Australian plan.  

Fix the mental health system. The problem with the mental health care system is that Republican Saint Reagan dismantled the government supported in-patient facilities in the 1980s to save money.  Prior to this dismantling, when someone acted scary crazy like Jared Loughner, James Holmes, Cruz and so on they were given a three-day involuntary commitment to one of these facilities to determine if they were dangerous to the public.  We don’t have facilities like this anymore, so there is no place to send people with violent mental illness for evaluation and treatment.  The very best case right now is we take an individual like this the to the ER, the ER gives them something to calm them down immediately and then they are released to find a therapist on their own.  There isn’t any follow-up.  However, most often, if the police are called and the person in question is cognizant enough to answer "no" to the question do you want to harm yourself or anyone else nothing is done.   

This is something Republicans could fix right now if they wanted to.  So why don’t they fix this as they have repeatedly promised?  They looked into how much it would cost to build new government-funded mental health facilities across the country and don't want to pay the costs. They quickly moved on to hoping that everyone forgets about the idea.  Then the next mass shooting comes along and they trot the same idea out again knowing full well they will never do anything about it because in their minds it simply costs too much.  So they go with stuff like video games,  ADHD drugs are the problem, a lack of prayer in school is the problem, and we need to force young women into monogamous relationships with young men they don't want to be in a relationship with.  They love these faux solutions because they don't cost anything and don't require restricting access to guns. 

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Not everything is about how the market is doing.  In fact, more people are focused on rising gas prices that are a result of Trump’s Iranian fiasco than they are about what the market is doing. We have criminal in the White House that wouldn’t be there but for Russian intelligence efforts. He is a guy who sees peaceful protesters no differently than he sees a crowd of violent Neo-Nazis chanting “Jews will not replace us.” He has a decades-long history of sexually assaulting women. Daily, he manages to debase the office of President by tweeting out crackpot conspiracy theories he discovered on some conservative blog as fact. He denigrates Federal law enforcement while at the same time and with a straight face bemoans peaceful protests by people of color asking for equal justice as unamerican. 

Keep it up Mark!  You have no idea how enjoyable it is to listen to your senseless babbling!