In the past 24 hours, the GOP gun lobby machine has turned to propaganda-spewing media outlets like Fox News, OAN, and others to flood the airwaves with “solutions” to gun violence that don’t propose doing anything about the guns at the center of gun violence. The list of “solutions” includes the things that places like Uvalde, Texas, already tried to do, like: over-fund the police, add police to schools, and have completely lax gun laws. The results on Tuesday, May 24, were 19 murdered children, terrified parents stuck outside, and police refusing to go inside to save those children from the “bad guy with a gun.”
Some unknown patriot (as of the writing of this story) created a supercut of the “solutions” being proposed across Fox News’ media landscape in the wake of this new tragedy. The list is a relentless barrage of worthless calls for fascism and theocracy, including a call for “marshal law,”* and turning our schools into prisons. It is beyond damning.
*You read that right!
Here’s the list:
- Armed security guard
- Armed school safety officer
- Armed deputy
- Armed teachers
- Armed administrators
- Armed school staffers
- Policemen
- Train the students themselves
- Retired military
- Retired law enforcement
- Tax breaks
- Martial law
- Secure the perimeter
- Provide a “ring of steel”
- Better fences
- Higher fences
- Locked doors
- Bulletproof glass
- Judeo-Christian values
- Make attacking a school a death sentence
- School snitches
- Stop letting schools be gun-free zones
- Put your phone down
- Divert coronavirus relief funds
- Send your child to private school
- Take your children to church
- Fight this “anti-police narrative”
- Series of interlocking doors
- Tripwire
- Trap the shooter like a rat
- God
- Address moral rot
- Decrease social media exposure
- Focus on mental health
- Pray
- Faith and prayer
- Make schools more like airports
- Don’t be triggered
- Assault rifles
- Enhanced body armor
- Notification system
- Single point of entry
- Don’t talk about the shooting
- Raise your children properly
- Ballistic blankets
- Give police more resources
- Executive Order for mental health facilities
- Return to God
- Arm yourself everywhere
You don’t believe that list? You think some of them were stuck in there in bad humor? No. You can watch it for yourself.