CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) – I’ve waited before talking about the tragic elementary school shooting at Uvalde, Texas.
The media and certain politicians always turn these stories into gun-control narratives.
That’s not what this is about.
Why is this not a gun control issue? Because guns are not going away. Your right to keep and bear arms is guaranteed in the Constitution. There is no path for Joe Biden, or Barack Obama, or Beto O’Rorke to make guns illegal; there’s no way to get guns away from people who already have them. Re-writing or revoking the Second Amendment is politically impossible.
Guns are not inherently bad. A knife can be used to cut my delicious steak dinner, or it can be used to stab someone. A gun can be used for hunting or for personal protection, or it can be used for a mass killing. The evil is in the human heart, not an inanimate object.
What this IS, is a school security issue. That’s what we need to talk about.
Locking a school door near the faculty parking lot is completely doable. That door was left open, and it’s how the gunman entered the school.
If there was a single of entry at Robb Elementary School, and if anyone who wanted to enter had to identify themselves, and was buzzed in, and entered through a steel-reinforced door and was greeted by an armed, trained school resource officer, events would have unfolded differently.
Now, a message to the school leaders in Central Wisconsin. When I go to a school here, I have to buzz in and identify myself… most of the time. There are other times a helpful student has let me in. Or I could walk in behind someone else who’s buzzed in. I know of school doors that are left unlocked or are propped open for convenience. That needs to stop. These school shootings can happen anywhere – even here. And the best, most effective, and easiest to implement security measure is this: one reinforced point of entry, where proper security measures are always followed.
I’m Chris Conley
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