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|Lie=Cruz wants to abolish doors
|Topic=Lie about a Lie
|Accusation=Senator Ted Cruz of Texas has continually put forward a lie—that we don’t need gun control in the US. Now he is spreading a lie about that lie!  He says the best way to avoid school shooting is to make schools more like prisons or military facilities, to “harden” them. The general idea, apparently, is that if a school has one point of entry, and that doorway is well guarded, a gunman might have greater difficulty killing people inside. Who needs gun control, the argument goes, when all we really need is door control.

There are a variety of reasons this is a difficult idea to take seriously.

First, I’m reasonably sure this would be a serious fire hazard in many school buildings nationwide.

Second, a lot of schools have windows.

Third, what about schools made up of several buildings, with students walking outdoors between them. Mandating “one door that goes in and out of the school” would be literally impossible.

Fourth, mass shootings don’t just happen in schools — and I’m not sure having one entry point to a grocery store is realistic.

Finally, there’s also reason to be skeptical of the underlying point. Juliette Kayyem, a veteran of the Obama administration’s Department of Homeland Security, and currently a lecturer in international security at Harvard, wrote on Twitter, “The ‘one door’ theory of schools is not how we think about education or design, but it’s also not how we think about security. It actually is bad safety planning. A ‘psychopath’ would then just target the kids backed up in line and waiting for this ‘one door’ to let them through.”

Or put another way, those looking at Cruz’s idea as a credible policy proposal are almost certainly making a mistake.

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/latest-school-shooting-ted-cruz-focuses-doors-rcna30630

URL: https://www.salon.com/2022/05/26/ted-cruz-thinks-he-has-a-better-solution-to-uvalde-school-than-control-door-control/

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|Markup=<i>Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) (who’s spoke at the NRA’s convention) argued yesterday that</i> <b>the problem isn’t that there are too many guns out there, it’s that schools have too many doors — more specifically, more than one door.</b><div><br></div>
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