ANTI-DOOR. Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick Suggests School Shooting Because of 'Too Many Exits'

[DonViejo]

41 minutes ago

In the aftermath of the Santa Fe High School shooting that left 10 people dead, Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick on Friday suggested the existence of “too many entrances and too many exits” in schools may lead to such shootings. “We have to look at the design of our schools moving forward and retrofitting schools that are already built... there are too many entrances and too many exits to our over 8,000 campuses in Texas,” Patrick said in an afternoon press conference. “There aren’t enough people to put a guard at every entrance and exit...maybe we need to look at limiting the entrance and exits into our schools so that we can have law enforcement looking at the people coming in through one or two entrances.” He continued, saying, “We’re gonna have to be creative. We’re gonna have to think out of the box.” Patrick got an endorsement and an “A” rating from the NRA in during the state's 2014 general election.

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[Snake Plissken]

1. President Trump is taking this situation very seriously

He has ordered all doors to be removed and has commissioned the Department of Education along with the Department of Homeland Security to submit a formal report to determine how long would it take to get a construction crew to the site to build a door to let police and other first responders in in the event of another tragedy like this ... believe me.

[LiberalFighter]

14. He should start at the White House.

[SoFlaDem]

2. Why is the National Door Association (NDA) not responding to this?

Makes as much sense as the NRA, No?

[LiberalFighter]

15. Snap... I gotta post that on Facebook

[Snake Plissken]

3. This reminds me of the NRA trolls right after the Sandy Hook Massacre

who kept citing a statistic of the number of children who drown in inground swimming pools, as if there was a potential of someone running into a school with an inground swimming pool to drown children.

They just throw any nonsense out there to take the focus off the guns that killed these children.

[KewlKat]

4. It's clear that the door to his mind is closed. Time for him to exit.

[dalton99a]

5. Solution: One door only. And one window

Plus gun towers

[Wednesdays]

20. Why even one window?

[marble falls]

6. Texas's ex RW talkshow host Lt Governor. What a jackass. Just another reason not to tell people...

I'm from Texas.

[murielm99]

7. And if there is a fire,

or another emergency where the kids have to enter or exit quickly? 'Kay.

[BigmanPigman]

8. Did he say this because he was

addressing a desire for airport type security at the entrances before you board? I didn't listen to the whole news conference.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

9. the guy has too many exits in his head

[Gothmog]

10. Dan Patrick is a homophobic religious nut case and an idiot

I really like Mike Collier who is the Democrat running to replace this idiot

[sarah FAILIN]

12. My kids school has only 1 entrance

The rest of the doors are exit only and can't be opened from the outside. It makes it easy to have a person watching the entrance during normal entrance hours then at other times you have to be buzzed in after they check you out on video. I liked it and felt like my kids were safer than if all the doors worked both ways.

During times like these, sometimes people don't communicate what they mean well.

[Codeine]

17. I don't want my kids going to a Supermax prison

disguised as a school.

My older daughter goes to a school spread over three city blocks, with classrooms next to/sharing building with businesses and office spaces. There’s no way to transform that into a MSNBC Lockdown environment, and I’m glad. She doesn’t deserve that.

[Vinca]

13. Give him a star for creativity. The mental health meme was getting old.

Now it's doors that are the problem.

[maveric]

16. Fire codes asshole!

I can’t believe this POS said that.

[Codeine]

18. Triangle Shirtwaist Elementary has a nice ring to it. nt

[lunasun]

19. Gun nut state leader sez not guns but caused by exits . OK got it

[shraby]

21. Places without enough doors can become fire traps.

[tinymontgomery]

22. Hate to say this

We have a metal detector that the kids go through, but it is random so not everyone gets checked every day. We have lots of entrances and exits through out the halls, my wing has one. There are glass doors out of glass to enter the wing from the outside, they are locked from the outside but can get out from the inside for fires etc. The issue I have is that it would only take one smash against the glass to allow someone to get in.

My room has two windows to the outside and and on the other a door on the inside of the wing with a window. No matter where we try to hide we can't. Instead we head to another room and lock ourselves in a room with no windows, of course if they came in our wing we would all be dead.

One school I taught in was set up like a college. To get to each wing you had to go outside and we had a quad to hang out in. It wasn't a closed campus. Of course with glass also on the roof to provide light in each rooms there are is no place for the kids to protect themselves even during a tornado.

I obviously don't have the answer but there must be one out there. No one thought of these situations when the schools were built in the early 70's.

[Texasgal]

23. What a fucking idiot!

He's being laughed out on twitter and FB.

What an embarrassment to our state!

[milestogo]

24. School Shootings Happen Because of Too Many Republicans.

[dalton99a]

28. Bingo

[erpowers]

25. One of the Stupidest Things I Have Ever Heard

That comment is one of the stupidest things I have ever read. That would probably be the worst response to this shooting. That would make the kids sitting ducks. All a shooter has to do is kill the guards at the one or two entrances at the school and then he/she can kill just about everyone in the school. All the shooter has to do is stand at the door and shoot anyone who comes in that direction. If the students just stay in class the shooter can just go from class to class shooting everyone.

[Thomas Hurt]

26. Patrick is another magical thinking christofascist theocrat....lyin for the Lord.

[CanonRay]

27. The stupid. It burns.

[roamer65]

29. Dumbass as a Lt Gov.

Limit the exits and it becomes even more of a killing zone.