This clip of Sen. Ted Cruz rightfully pointing out that things like a single point of entry and locked doors at schools can make them safer is causing a major meltdown in the liberal Twittersphere right now:
senator Ted Cruz comes out bravely against doors.
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) May 26, 2022
Now, we expect tweets like this from Molly Jong-Fast, but is it too much to ask that, say, someone like Washington Post editor and columnist Karen Tumulty not play this dopey game?
Tumulty tweeted after seeing the clip, “Wouldn’t building schools with only one door create other problems? Like making it harder for kids to get out if, say, there is a fire?”:
Wouldn't building schools with only one door create other problems? Like making it harder for kids to get out if, say, there is a fire? https://t.co/L7T7SB2fbO
— Karen Tumulty (@ktumulty) May 26, 2022
She can’t be serious:
This thread is hilarious. So many idiot leftists think that a one-door policy means the structure only has only one door. https://t.co/uw6VpglsFN
— Peter G. (@PeterNY15) May 26, 2022
We’re literally at a point where journos don’t understand doors?
Right. So the confusion we're having here is that journalists don't know how doors work. https://t.co/SL1DbwTg4B
— Omri Ceren (@omriceren) May 26, 2022
Emergency exits — how do they work?
Karen Tumulty is 66 years old and unfamiliar with the concept of an “emergency exit.” https://t.co/TYoKvG7yFm
— Max+ (@MaxNordau) May 26, 2022
We expect, if she looks, she’ll find lots of doors that work this way in her own life and she’s fine with them!
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He said “one door that goes in and out.” Plenty of doors only work one way for the exact reason he’s talking about. Apartment stairway doors, for example. #DoorsForDummies https://t.co/1e0qrLZpiR
— Eddie Scarry (@eScarry) May 26, 2022
It also shows just how ignorant she is about this very important issue of school safety:
oh God you are so stupid so it's one or two points of entry with many normal doors that only exit –god someone pays you to write? lemme guess you don't have kids in school rn https://t.co/Vz6h6TujeV
— UltraBae (@Buffyinnyc) May 26, 2022
For many Americans, the idea that a school does not have these precautions is baffling:
My kids have had this for a decade!
The fire doors remain, but are secured.
Getting into the school most of the day involves going through security and a single point of entry.
It works really well.
— Pradheep J. Shanker (@Neoavatara) May 26, 2022
It’s also new construction vs. legacy buildings:
This really is a regional thing.
Here in the Midwest, many schools have had this since Newtown. My youngest has never been in a school where this isn't the case. That's how long it's been.
— Pradheep J. Shanker (@Neoavatara) May 26, 2022
Tumulty added in her thread, that she’s “[j]ust trying to think this through…”:
Just trying to think this through…
— Karen Tumulty (@ktumulty) May 26, 2022
Well, think harder because all of these things are accounted for in modern school design:
So you have lots of exit doors where people can't enter: What about recess? Or a shooter who gets inside and opens the doors to an accomplice? People argue that gun laws aren't fail-safe. But ideas like this don't seem to be either.
— Karen Tumulty (@ktumulty) May 26, 2022
But instead of these common-sense guidelines for school, sure, just take all the guns instead. That will surely work!
Good point. Let's confiscate all the guns instead. It's time for practical solutions. https://t.co/KTguYQjLmY
— jimtreacher.substack.com (@jtLOL) May 26, 2022
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