Chris Hayes Says Mass Shooting Crisis Is ‘Ritualized Child Sacrifice of American Gun Culture’ (Video)
27.05.2022 - 17:59
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except harass and detain desperate parents begging them to do their jobs.In the wake of this horror, per usual Republicans are lockstep opposed to any new law that would actually deal with this problem, such as gun control measures, which of course puts them in opposition to the overwhelming majority of Americans. Instead, they’re proposing absurd, distractive faux solutions, for instance, the idea that schools should be turned into firetraps or virtual prisons. Other conservatives have literally proposed littering schools with booby traps.
Hayes of course spoke out against insane proposals like that in his remarks.“So what are we gonna do here,” Hayes said after discussing the tragedy at length on Thursday’s episode of “All In.” “Some choices: Are we going to conceive of every school in this nation as first and foremost the site of a possible massacre and redesign and engineer every building with that in mind? Should we make mass gun massacre prevention a core part of what schooling is, and what schooling procedures look like?” Hayes said.“As a parent and as a citizen, I say no. No. No.
I don’t accept that. Schools are public places. They’re places of learning.
For children, and teachers, and staff, to grow, and flourish, and play together. They are not prisons, they are not fortresses, and they should not have to be,” Hayes continued.“No more hardening schools, no more lock-down drills. No more.
The actual massacres are bad enough. The grief and the trauma, it’s bad enough. The trauma of families in Uvalde, or Parkland, or Santa Fe, or on and on and on,” Hayes went on.