The Left Never Gets Outraged About This Aspect of School Shootings
It's much easier to score political points by attacking Republicans than by solving a real problem
Democrats, celebrities, and the left-wing mainstream media didn’t waste any time blaming and calling Republicans killers after the school shooting in Texas. They never waste a second on calling for stricter gun laws that won’t cut gun violence. The bluest areas in the country like Chicago have the tightest gun laws and have the most gun violence so their laws are failures. Schools are gun-free zones and that doesn’t make a killer read the sign at the door and go home.
America has been enduring mass shootings in schools for over two decades since Columbine. There’s always anger from the Left about not enough gun laws that don’t work and never about how schools are so incompetent at providing real safe spaces to prevent kids from facing actual triggers. It’s much easier to say Republicans are evil than look for practical solutions or focus blame on the places that we trust will protect our kids.
Progressives are so focused on creating their version of safe spaces and preventing triggering events from speech they deem inappropriate instead of coming up with a plan to provide real security in schools. Our educational institutions are supposed to be full of smart people, so why haven’t we found solutions to keep shooters out of schools? We figured out how to not have shootings in airplanes, so why can’t we secure a building full of kids?
The bluest areas in the country like Chicago have the tightest gun laws and have the most gun violence so their laws are failures.
The Left is opposed to armed security in schools. If they weren’t, we already would have it because Republicans are in favor. Leftists don’t want to arm teachers either. They assume teachers are all meek and timid individuals who can’t handle a firearm or wouldn’t want to. Instead of looking at teachers as individuals, they look at them as a group, which is a habit of the Left, and think they all have the same views and feelings.
Teachers can be people who worked in law enforcement or military veterans in previous careers and would have experience with firearms. You can’t find better people to protect kids if they choose to and they should have the choice. There could be police officers out of work who were victims of Democrats defunding the police because of Black Lives Matter who could provide armed school security.
They assume teachers are all meek and timid individuals who can’t handle a firearm or wouldn’t want to.
Progressives can’t accept that the most efficient way to stop an active shooter is someone else who is a person trained to use firearms. It was one of the heroic US Border Patrol officers, some off duty, who went into the school and risked their lives to stop the shooter with his gun. The shooter didn’t get neutralized by a new law or defenseless teachers and students pleading with him to stop his rampage.
The Left’s outrage lacks credibility because they only direct it towards Republicans to score political points and not at schools that fail to take responsibility for securing their grounds. The Left could say there’s not enough funding for required security but there’s plenty of bloated administration and bureaucrats that never existed before they could let go to free up funding if that’s their excuse.
Securing schools should be a bipartisan issue to negotiate to ensure kids have real safe spaces. The Left should do something useful with their virtue signaling and demand schools provide secure environments and provide staff who are trained to handle active shooter situations if their security measures fail. Administrators and educators who can’t figure out one of the most important parts of their jobs need to find a new line of work.