Saturday 28 May 2022 03:43 AM Ted Cruz calls for multiple armed cops and military veterans to be stationed at ... trends now
Senator Ted Cruz has dramatically called for multiple cops and ex-military members to be stationed at school doors to avoid another horrific school massacre.
Cruz, 51, suggested at the annual National Rifle Association conference in Houston on Friday that schools should model security measures of courthouses, such as 'limiting the means of entry to one entrance.'
'Schools, likewise, should have a single point of entry,' he lamented on Friday. 'At that single point of entry, we should have multiple armed police officers, or if need be, military veterans trained to provide security and keep our children safe.
'We need serious funding to upgrade our schools to install bulletproof doors, and locking classroom doors.'
The Republican lawmaker also recalled the six shooting sites he has visited since 2016 and called all of them 'horrible.'
'I was in Dallas in 2016, in Sutherland Springs in 2017, in Santa Fe in 2018, in El Paso and Midland Odessa in 2019, and now Uvalde. Each time was the picture of horror,' he said on Friday.
Despite visiting the sites of six shootings, Cruz - among other GOP leaders, like former President Donald Trump, who also attended the NRA conference - are not calling for gun reform or tighter restrictions.
Senator Ted Cruz calls for multiple armed cops and military veterans to be stationed at schools with bulletproof doors installed to protect our 'most precious asset' children at the National Rifle Association conference in Houston on Friday
Cruz suggested there only be one point on entry to schools, as well, so the shooter couldn't enter through a backdoor
Children ran out of the school with scared looks on their faces after police helped pull them from a window at Robb Elementary School on Tuesday, where Salvador Ramos, 18, killed 19 fourth-graders and two teachers
Cruz went on to blame 'virtual life' as a fundamental reason shootings are happening, saying it creates an 'absence of community and faith and love,' Fox News reported.
'Tragedies like the events of this week are a mirror forcing us to ask hard questions, demanding that we see where our culture is failing.'
He cited 'broken families, absent fathers, declining church attendance, and social media bullying' as reasons young people psyches are being effected and could potential
