Abbott's great plan: Conduct weekly inspections of doors

[Nevilledog]

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Greg Abbott
@GregAbbott_TX

Governor candidate, TX
I’m directing the Texas Education Agency to ensure schools are held to heightened safety standards following the tragedy in Uvalde.

I requested TEA to:
- Identify actions to make campuses more secure
- Conduct weekly inspections of doors
- Increase presence of trained officers
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2:50 PM · Jun 2, 2022

[Hekate]

1. IOW, a boondoggle & waste of money. Anything but regulate guns. nt

[dutch777]

18. Just pretend to do SOMETHING that is low cost and FAST. Results don't matter now, just appearances.

Accountability is down the road, if it exists at all for these bottom feeding scum.

[CentralMass]

2. The doors that keep the shooter inside with teachers and kids and the police in a safe spot outside.

[RockRaven]

3. Party of fewer regulations/small government wants public employees to inspect doors weekly.

Hmmm...

[Diamond_Dog]

4. When I was in high school

We’re talking mid ‘70s here ….there was a big problem with kids skipping class. So what did the administration do? About a half hour after the morning bell rang, they put a chain and a padlock across all the doors except the front door by the office. I shudder to think what might have happened if there was a fire and 2000 kids had to all get out through one door.

[underpants]

9. They could've stood over the doors with Lawn Darts

Just saying.

[Diamond_Dog]

23. Snipers posted on the roof would have been effective too

[Ocelot II]

5. Seriously?

[Tadpole Raisin]

6. The wheels on the bus go round and round....

[underpants]

7. Uh, shouldn't the doors have guns?

[Ocelot II]

8. That's it! Brilliant!

Every school door should be wired to the triggers of a gun, so if a bad guy opened the door he would get blown away! I'm sure nothing could possibly go wrong with such an ingenious scheme.

[FSogol]

14. You should run for Texas Governor!

[Paladin]

11. "Conduct weekly inspections of doors."

Hell of an idea there, Abbott. We'll all sleep better tonight.

[hibbing]

13. Should add inspections for any evidence of CRT or Jane Has Two Mommies books n/t

[forgotmylogin]

15. Sure, inspect those doors.

If they're not chained shut and a fire hazard, they become a nuisance and people will habitually block them open.

I live right next to the back corner of a high school, and several years ago a student once explained to me how she would check in through the main front doors with her badge as they were all required. Then since she had 20 minutes to wait, she'd slip out a back door and leave a pencil in the doorjamb so the door wouldn't latch shut and she could exit school grounds and smoke in my apartment parking lot and then return back through the door she blocked open without the school knowing.

[Magoo48]

17. Why by God Ma it were the doors that was the reason all them there kids was shot.

I reckon the gubna knows these things a mite bettern us folks.

[OhZone]

19. Aint it possible to blast a door open -

with the shooters weapon of choice?

[gratuitous]

20. The lengths they go to just to avoid regulating those militia weapons

But to be fair, Gov. Abbott's proposals won't cost any extra money, of course. Right?

[TxGuitar]

21. Saw a Talking Points Memo headline today:

"Abbot Takes Bold Action on America's Unsecured Door Epidemic"

[dalton99a]

22. Creating government jobs for thousands of Texans