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Fox Information on Tuesday evening broadcast quite a few options for how you can forestall mass shootings, hours after a gunman killed not less than 19 elementary faculty kids and two adults in Texas. These concepts included creating tax breaks for retired navy and regulation enforcement personnel to patrol faculty property, putting in “man traps,” and buying “ballistic blankets” for college students.
“As an alternative of oldsters shopping for their youngsters all these instruments and toys and video games, spend money on the classroom to make it safer,” Maureen O’Connell, a former FBI agent, advised to Bret Baier. Firms can conduct “risk assessments” for areas of vulnerability, she stated, “and so they have blankets that you could put up on the wall which are colourful and delightful—however they’re ballistic blankets.”
Related feedback have been made on Hannity, the place the namesake host first whined about President Joe Biden selecting to “politicize” the tragedy when he referred to as for motion from Republicans lobbied by the gun trade. Sean Hannity then turned to Dan Bongino, and stated that “for years” he’s advocated for methods to maintain college students protected.
“Folks—retired navy, retired regulation enforcement—exterior the perimeter of each faculty within the nation, they'll donate their time, we are able to provide them tax breaks, no revenue tax within the state, no revenue tax federally, 10 hours every week and we are able to have each faculty in America coated,” Hannity stated. “Folks across the perimeter, folks within the halls, first responders there—we don’t have to fret about police response instances.”
“I don’t know another strategy to hold youngsters protected, although,” the Fox host added. “And by the best way, it will be so much lower than what we’re giving Ukraine.”
Bongino principally agreed, and likewise praised the “terrific” concept of the “man entice” that was put forth earlier within the present by former NYPD detective Pat Brosnan—the identical Fox visitor who made a weird hyperlink between vaccinations and shootings after a gunman killed 9 in San Jose, California, final 12 months.
The entice is “a sequence of interlocking doorways on the faculty entrance which are triggered by a tripwire, [which] might be a gunshot, damaged glass, a guide change tossed by a college worker,” Brosnan defined. “And it traps the shooter like a rat.”
“It’s not labor, it’s not gun management. Sorry to say,” he added.