Texas Congressman Files Bill To Harden Schools Against Attacks

By Tom Knighton

AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana

School shootings happen for one reason above anything else: They’re good targets.

Security at schools tends to be a complete disaster. That means, they’re loaded with unarmed targets in a tight, confined space. There are other reasons that I’m not very comfortable listing, but you probably know of other reasons as well.

After any school shooting, we’re told that the only possible solution is more gun control. The media are filled with talking heads saying that if you don’t support gun control, you want to see more kids die.

However, a congressman from Texas has filed a bill that gives the lie to that argument.

The start of a new school year is probably the furthest thing from your child’s mind, but that’s not the case for Texas Congressman Roger Williams (R-Austin).

“We have not done enough up here in Congress to protect our students and our teachers from the problems we’ve had with schools in the past,” Representative Williams told KVUE.

The problems he’s referencing are incidents of mass violence, including the shooting at Santa Fe High School outside Houston last May and the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland Florida three …Read the Rest

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