Why stop at ‘hardening’ schools? Today, everywhere is a ‘soft target.’
6/3/22
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from The Washington Post,
6/2/22:
Republican politicians really, really don’t want to acknowledge that the reason the United States has such exceptional levels of gun violence is our exceptional obsession with and access to guns. That, after all, might imply the need for additional restrictions on the availability of firearms. So they cast about for other possible causes, and therefore other possible solutions.
When not blaming “mental health” challenges for mass shootings (while simultaneously cutting access to mental health care), they’ve been blaming schools for being “soft targets.”
The solution, from a predictable Republican chorus, is that schools must be “hardened.”
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