Why Aren’t We Talking About School Safety?

How many more children must be “sacrificed” on the altar of using tragedy to blindly impose Democratic Party policy?

“The idea that the solution to this crisis is to ‘harden our schools’ is nothing more than shameful surrender to impotency,” Sen. Cory Booker wrote last week following the mass shooting attack in Uvalde, Texas. “Their ‘solution’ is to turn our schools into military bunkers.”

“How many more children must be sacrificed on the altar of our inaction until we actually do something?” the wide-eyed and totally sincere New Jersey politician added.

The real question we should pose to Democrats like Booker is as follows: how many more children must be sacrificed on the altar of using tragedy to blindly impose Democratic Party policy until we actually do something effective?

I’ve written extensively in recent days on the subject of gun control — digging into topics such as the real data behind “gun violence” in the United States, outlining other preventative solutions, and explaining why “assault weapon bans” would be both ineffective and societally damaging.

But one more area routinely dismissed by Democratic Party figures, despite being a potentially-immediate and ideologically bipartisan solution (at least in part) is the notion of improving school safety. But such a suggestion is being rejected as an evil itself.

As another example, given the Democratic Party’s apparent desperation to “do something” and/or address the problem of school mass shootings, why did Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer block a GOP school safety bill?

Schumer objected to Republican Senator Ron Johnson’s request that the “Luke and Alex School Safety Act” be passed, arguing that the bill “could see more guns in schools.”

“The truth: There were officers at the school in Texas," Schumer wrote. "The shooter got past them. We need real solutions — We will vote on gun legislation starting with the Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act."

Of course, now we know that there were no officers at the school in Texas, and that the shooter “walked in unobstructed” through an unlocked door, but who cares about pesky fact-based reality when it stands in the way of an underlying narrative?

Setting aside the “Luke and Alex School Safety Act,” we must ask why the broad notion that schools deserve protection is seen as utterly noxious by the American Left.

After all, we have armed security at airports, banks, and office buildings across the country. Shopping malls, pawn shops, and casinos are routinely protected by armed guards. Most notably, the vast majority of politicians in Congress — including Cory Booker and Chuck Schumer and their fellow gun control fanatics — enjoy constant armed security.

So why not our children?