Sandy Hook survivor Grace Fischer slams Vance's 'lock the doors' plan for school shooters
Source: The Independent
4 hours ago
Sandy Hook survivor Grace Fischer has slammed JD Vances suggestion that schools should make the door locks better to deal with shootings. The 18-year-old campaigner, who was six when she survived the horrific mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut on 14 December 2012, said Vances proposed solution was unacceptable.
Its not about making schools safer, because they should be a safe space already for children. His solution is unacceptable, she told ABC News. It doesnt make sense to make schools with stronger windows
I think we need to get more gun control.
During last weeks debate against Tim Walz, Vance suggested that making the doors lock better was one measure to tackle gun violence in schools.
What do we do to protect our kids? And I think the answer is, and I say this not loving the answer, because I dont want my kids to go to school in a school that feels unsafe or there are visible signs of security, but I unfortunately think that we have to increase security in our schools, Vance said.
Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/sandy-hook-jd-vance-school-shooting-b2624450.html
no_hypocrisy
(48,936 posts)The assailant shot through the locks and entered the school.
thesquanderer
(12,351 posts)70sEraVet
(4,165 posts)The heroine is alone in her house, and an armed villain is trying to get to her, and she locks the deadbolt on her front door....and......he gives up and goes away.
IcyPeas
(22,635 posts)turbinetree
(25,333 posts)on the ground................after we heard the popping sound of a gun going off...........and they still have that imagine in their head from 65 years ago.............what is your answer to that..................lock the doors................since you have the answers for everything..................
3825-87867
(1,113 posts)The doors to the Capitol WERE locked Jn 6th. Did a lot of good, eh?
And where were you that day, hiding, cowering? Never heard an answer.
3catwoman3
(25,504 posts)...so he wasn't there on Jan 6th 2020.
3825-87867
(1,113 posts)Still, the other meaning of locked doors is freaking nuts!
He needs to be asked how those locked doors stopped all the "tourists!"
Wonder Why
(4,598 posts)maxsolomon
(35,116 posts)I shouldn't have to go through metal detectors to go to a ball game or a concert. But now I do, because MALES in America now seem to solve every grievance with gunfire.
Vance's solution is the only thing Repuke dim bulbs can come up with, because regulating the militia well is a leap too far for them.
There are just too many guns in too many irresponsible hands, and not a damn thing is going to be done about it. Gun laws are only being struck down, not tightened.
jmowreader
(51,511 posts)Vance's plan would not only supposedly make it harder for a school shooter to get into the school - they wouldn't have stopped Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold because they were enrolled in the school they shot up - but will definitely make it much harder for people who don't want to be killed to flee.
This doesn't sound like the greatest idea anyone ever had.