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Question about one glaring detail of Uvalde school shooting sparks lots of debate

May 30, 2022 | | Print Article
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In an age of corporate media punditry where, too often, partisan talking points are veiled as objective facts, the rush to perpetuate a narrative can inadvertently result in key details being overlooked. As such, while the threads of law enforcement and Second Amendment supporter culpability continue to be pulled on, one key element in the Texas school shooting seemingly unexplored caused a great deal of debate Sunday.

Investigators have been regularly updating the timeline from last week when an 18-year-old suspect entered Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, and massacred 19 children and two teachers. While questions linger as to whether authorities waited too long to breach the classroom, few in the public eye have been seeking a response to the report that the point of entry had been a door propped open by a teacher that should have otherwise been locked shut.

Sara Gonzales, BlazeTV host of “The News and Why It Matters,” tweeted out such a question Sunday asking, “It’s been 5 days since the Uvalde tragedy. Has anyone heard why the teacher propped open the door?”

In and of itself, the question doesn’t appear to have any partisan leaning and in another time might have been treated as a routine feat of journalism. Instead, the query was received by some as the stirrings of some radical conspiracy theory.

Gonzales pushed past claims that she was hunting for some point proving detail by explaining that a legitimate investigation was meant to be conducted without a hindrance of emotional bias.

“Anyone operating from an objective, fact finding place and not pure emotion understands that the details surrounding HOW THE SHOOTER GOT IN THE BUILDING uh….matter a lot,” she replied to one detractor on Twitter.

Ironically, while Gonzales was being challenged over seeking the answer to what should have been a basic question, those decrying her fact-finding mission were more than happy to make excuses for what may likely have been a lapse in judgment without any support of their own theories other than emotion.

However, not everyone was so dismissive of the question and noted what should have been an obvious conclusion that if the door hadn’t been propped open the suspect’s entry could very well have been impeded long enough for law enforcement to intercede before the tragedy took place.

As some astute users pointed out, all questions should be answered to determine what went wrong and the proper course of action that must be taken to prevent similar atrocities.

Hours after the initial debate had quieted down, Gonzales followed up her initial question with her assessment of those less than interested in learning all the facts.

“Anyone who tells you the details we don’t have on the Uvalde shooting ‘don’t matter’ are not good faith actors and should be treated accordingly,” she wrote.

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16 thoughts on “Question about one glaring detail of Uvalde school shooting sparks lots of debate”

  1. In order for safety protocols to work they must be followed, in order to prevent a breech in security. I imagine the teacher that opened the door now realizes that.

  2. I had the outside door of the submarine open. It really didn’t matter ‘why’.
    As the sub began is regular ‘Dive’, which turned into its Last Dive.

  3. In addition to these questions, I would also like to know how a kid whose grandmother paid his phone bill while he worked fast food, could afford buying an AR-15, a high dollar one at that.

    1. Yes, they are. Ever notice the democrats only want reasonable gun control but can never define reasonable.

  5. With the approaching summer (of love), electrical blackouts already promised by this Adm, more hotheads and mass killing may be around the corner!
    Remember who pushed for “DEFUND & DISARM”.

  6. One point of entry at schools does not mean only 1 door in the building.
    It simply means that anyone coming into that school has to prove they belong there.
    Exit doors that easily open from the inside in case of fire or other emergency are all over the building.
    My children’s schools had a single entrance system. Security was present as the kids were coming in.
    Administration was right there.
    No classrooms or lockers were quickly accessible or directions posted.
    Once school started, the entrance doors were locked.
    If you showed up at the school after that, you were required to use the intercom, speak to administration, state your name and purpose, they can also see you on video.
    If you passed muster, you were buzzed in with instructions to come directly to the administration office, usually someone was 3 feet inside the door to take you the remaining 10 feet into the office.
    If you were picking up a child, your ID was scanned, you had to sign your child out, and the child would be brought to the office.
    If you were coming to have lunch with your child, attend an assembly, anything that meant you would be on campus among the students for any period of time, you were issued a visitors pass, with your name, and a scan of your ID that was required to be worn the entire time you were on campus. You couldn’t even leave the office until it was affixed to your clothing and easily visible to staff.
    They could, and did, stop you occasionally to make sure the picture on the pass matched you.
    When there were drills of any kind, children had multiple emergency exits and procedures that were followed and were successful in evacuating the school within a set time frame. Every class had an exit they were assigned, they were to stay together, move in an orderly fashion and each class and grade level had a rallying point outside to make sure everyone was accounted for.

    My kids are now 23 and 26.

    Why, if they were using that procedure way back then, are they not doing it now?

  7. The vast, vast majority of human beings who own a gun do not kill others. However, in our culture of internet bullying, lying as the norm in politics, violent video games and movies, etc. the mentally unstable are desensitized to violence: even worshipping it.

    The collapse of our cultural norms has cultivated mass murders, not solely or exclusively guns.

  8. Older schools have solid Fire Doors to classrooms, not armored security doors. It could have been hot in the classroom trying to get air circulation or there may have been a kid out to the bathroom. School security is at all the exterior doors! It was at an outside door that he got into the school. If the school had security cameras they could find out who left the door open. He could have just as easily entered through one of the open windows. It is also possible he could have called a friend to leave the door open for him to get in.
    The biggest flaw is the COWARD cops who waited for 45 minutes while kids bled to death. Policy is that the firs officer(s) IMMEDIATELY go in when kids lives are in danger! Some cops are unfit COWARDS and must be fired.

  9. I do not understand why people are so hell-bent on trying to pin blame on someone else. The tragedy is bad enough as it is. The blame for the killings is all on the 18 year old Ramos, and no one else!!! Yes, the teacher should not have propped open the door, the school patrol officer could have by chance been in the hallway when Ramos entered the door and shot him dead at that point, SWAT could have been on the scene in seconds, and on and on and on. The point is that Ramos committed the murders and there is absolutely no one else to blame! Yes, studies should be done on how to improve security at schools, but quit trying to blame others…sounds like Biden!

    2. The one thing that would have prevented the murder of these innocent people is blown off by the ignorant. Instead let’s just destroy the second amendment and make it even easier to become a marxist nation. There are many school systems that have automated door locks that feed to a central monitoring system. Security must be taken seriously in today’s environment. That teacher should be found and fired to set the proper example.

    3. It does matter. This killer was bent on massacring children, he could have done it with an ax, a sword, a knife, a baseball bat. There is protocol in place to prevent harm to children and it wasn’t followed along with the school patrol officer being absent, who could have verified the school was locked down hearing the 12 minute gunshots. It all adds up to the disaster. As ex-military,I saw too many disasters that could have been avoided if only people hadn’t ignored their security training and protocol. The killer had been shooting at people outside the school for supposedly 12 minutes and not injured a single person. Think about it. The propped open door was how the killer accessed the kids.

  10. Methinks these liberals doth protest too much. Shout down the questioner because she’s not asking/demanding answers along the liberal agenda party line. Sounds like she needs to ask these types of questions louder and even more persistently to me.

  11. If one thing has come out of school shootings, doors stay closed and locked. In most schools you have to buzz and tell them who you are and they will make that decision. Just being able to walk in during school hours should have never happened.

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