No one died because of the numerous exits when our high school burned down...

[cynatnite]

It was a very long time ago, 1982. The classroom I was in was located next to the gym where the fire originated. As we were being evacuated, the roof of the gym was completely engulfed. We were close enough to feel the heat of the fire. Most other classrooms were built around the gym at the time the school was built.

Were it not for the numerous exits that we used to escape, there would have been loss of life.

We don't need less exits and we don't need them barricaded either. We need gun control laws.

Here is the article about the fire at my school...

[link:https://newsok.com/article/1971175/cherokee-fire-routs-students-faulty-boiler-heater-cause|

[SHRED]

1. Exactly!

[mcar]

2. Thank you!

[lapfog_1]

3. Not to mention that if a school of, say, 1000 students

has only 1 or 2 entrances... the shooter only has to position themselves to have a clear shot at the entrance and cause mass murder either at the start or end of the school day when all the of students are streaming through the only entrance / egress.

[Ohiogal]

4. That "we need fewer exits" crap

is total bullshit! told my hubby about that (he's a retired teacher) and that was the first thing he said, that's against fire regulations, anyone with two brain cells knows better.

What we need is GUN CONTROL LAWS!

[gibraltar72]

5. My first thought when I heard

the Texas asshole spout it. What about a fire how does that work? What if all students are funneled to the shooter like livestock. Damn Republicans are stupid.

[Igel]

6. In this case

sawed off shotguns are mostly banned already.

Revolvers aren't. But they're common as dirt. We can call some guns "semi-automatic" to make them sound really nasty, but they're still both weapons of war and what homeowners have in their closets and deer hunters carry for the kill shot in the event they merely wound an animal. In this case, since they're saying "revolver," it's not what's usually considered "semi-automatic." Wrong self-loading mechanism.

All the suggestions here, as for the most part in Parkland, would have null effect. Yet examples of what wouldn't be stopped by certain laws are proposed as great examples of what the proposed laws would stop. Don't notice details, it's easy to pull the gunnysack over somebody's eyes. Details matter, however pesky they are when it comes to doing something Really Important.

Even the requirement that people under 20 really can't be trusted with power and so shouldn't be allowed something as fearsome as a gun wouldn't have really helped. Although we give far more power to those under 20 in the name of "they agree with us" or "we approve" than a mere gun confers, and praise their maturity. Odd, that; both massively immature and untrustworthy and imminently mature and wise, both at the same time.

[Canoe52]

11. wtf, really?

[gollygee]

7. My kid's school has lots of exits but they are only exits

you can't enter them.

But I agree re the gun control laws. Shootings happen everywhere - including but not limited to schools. We can't create secure environments everywhere. We need gun control laws.

[tblue37]

8. When the TX Lt. Gov. made his remarks, I immediately thought of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. nt

[we can do it]

9. That was my reply to an earlier thread.

[SCVDem]

10. Triangle Shirtwaist Factory

Nuff said! Asswipe!

[Iggo]

12. It's the guns.