Second Amendment requires that kids burn up in school fires?

© 2018 Peter Free

 

19 May 2018

 

 

Gun imbecility has its own (admittedly sound) logic

 

After 10 people were shot to death at Santa Fe High School in Texas, Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick said:

 

 

We may have to look at the design of our schools moving forward and retrofitting schools that are already built. There are too many entrances and too many exits.

 

There are not enough people to put a guard in every entrance or exit. Maybe we need to look at limiting the entrances and exits into our schools so that we can have law enforcement looking at the people who are coming.

 

© 2018 Jeremy B. White, Texas official responds to Santa Fe shooting by calling for fewer school doors, The Independent (United Kingdom) (19 May 2018)

 

 

On the one hand

 

This makes narrowly held sense.

 

 

On the other

 

It is broadly stupid.

 

It assumes that condemning children to burn up in fires, due to limited numbers of building exits, is preferable to taking a meaningful look at keeping murderers and unstable folk away from firearms.

 

 

The moral? — the Second Amendment makes its own executioner's logic

 

God forbid that we take a non-barbarian's view regarding its anti-social rationale.

 

I cannot condemn Lt. Governor Patrick's well-meaning. But his statement does reflect the boundless insanity that imprisons American culture.