Analysis: Newt Gingrich offered one of the worst school-shooter plans yet
Even at Gingrich’s lower five-people-at-$500 rate, the cost of buying back every AR-15-style rifle would be less expensive than paying for and training armed teachers for four years.Teachers would be expected to react quickly in the event of a shooting, drawing their firearms — which they would presumably have at their hips — and engaging a shooter who recent experience shows would likely be armed with a semiautomatic rifle.
at a grocery store in that city earlier this month, only to be shot to death. But these teachers, suddenly shifting from teacher to SWAT-team duty, are expected to fare better.There are just countless questions here.
, during which time nine people were shot to death. How many might die by the time the teachers could respond?Just consider what happened in Uvalde, the incident to which Gingrich is proposing a response. The gunman enters the school — assuming in our Gingrichian scenario that a teacher or office secretary doesn’t manage to take him down immediately — and enters a classroom where he locks the door.
This article is itself a disservice, admittedly, since it treats Gingrich’s proposal as serious. His proposal was not serious. It was, instead, something to say that met the needs of his position as a Fox News contributor: giving primacy to toughness over rationality and focusing first on coming up with solutions that don’t involve limiting guns.
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