Throughout Sunday’s CNN State of the Union, Texas Republican Congressman Dan Crenshaw defined to the clueless Dana Bash why growing safety in colleges is the best method to stop mass shootings versus extra gun management which will not do something to resolve the issue. Constitutional points apart, it could be not possible to confiscate all of the weapons in possession in the US at the moment. Bash would not perceive this and as an alternative, Crenshaw had to make use of the analogy of the safety at CNN’s headquarters to make Bash notice that colleges ought to have safety as effectively. 

“The reality of the matter is that if we had a minimal of two armed guards or law enforcement officials at each single faculty in America, you‘d most likely stop these from right here on out,” Crenshaw defined to Bash relating to mass shootings at colleges. 

Not fairly greedy the idea of armed guards, Bash replied “you stated that they are random, the one by way of line in these deaths is that they’re shootings. Due to this fact, they’re finished by weapons and weapons are the main reason behind dying for kids and teenagers within the U.S.” 

“So should not serving to save the lives of kids be a high precedence for you as a member of the Home majority?” Bash snarked. 

“I go to numerous colleges. I do talks at varied colleges. It is very uncommon that I’m going into a faculty, particularly the newer ones, they usually do not have some sort of armed police presence there always,” Crenshaw defined. “In order that’s a safety measure that I do know will cease this and there was nothing like that in these previous few mass shootings. There is not any armed guards there.”

Bash shot again “So the reply is extra weapons?” 

No, the reply is armed guards,” Crenshaw responded. “The reply is armed guards, proper armed guards.”

Since Bash was not greedy the idea, he introduced up CNN’s constructing safety “that defend you all at CNN. Is it straightforward to get into your headquarters at CNN? Completely not. There’s armed guards there. There’s single factors of entry.” 

“You are not going to do away with weapons, and I am not going to say that folks can not—that law-abiding residents can’t defend themselves anymore and train their Second Modification rights and assume that is going to cease mass violence. Folks will determine different methods to commit mass violence as soon as they’ve, sadly, reached that time of their life.,” Crenshaw defined. 

Bash nonetheless refused to concede the purpose and notice her gun management agenda won’t ever work. She as an alternative doubled down on her unique level towards extra safety in colleges: “there was purported to be armed guards on the colleges in each Uvalde in your house state of Texas and Parkland, and that did not assist something.”

She then rapidly moved on to a different matter earlier than Crenshaw might educate her.

This willful ignorance by CNN’s Dana Bash was made potential by Verizon. Their data is linked.

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CNN’s State of the Union
4/2/2023
9:49:00 a.m. Japanese

REP. DAN CRENSHAW: The reality of the matter is that if we had a minimal of two armed guards or law enforcement officials at each single faculty in America, you‘d most likely stop these from right here on out.

DANA BASH: Nicely, you stated— 

CRENSHAW: That is the reality

BASH: You stated that they are random, the one by way of line in these deaths is that they’re shootings. Due to this fact, they’re finished by weapons and weapons are the main reason behind dying for kids and teenagers within the U.S.. So should not serving to save the lives of kids be a high precedence for you as a member of the Home majority? 

CRENSHAW: No, it completely needs to be. Which is why I say I’d look to the factor that might completely cease this, which is placing armed law enforcement officials at each faculty. I go to numerous colleges. I do talks at varied colleges. It is very uncommon that I’m going into a faculty, particularly the newer ones, they usually do not have some sort of armed police presence there always. In order that’s a safety measure that I do know will cease this and there was nothing like that in these previous few mass shootings. There is not any armed guards there. 

BASH: So the reply is extra weapons? 

[crosstalk]

CRENSHAW: So if I’m simply on the lookout for precise options, that might be it. 

BASH: So the reply is extra weapons?

CRENSHAW: No, the reply is armed guards. The reply is armed guards, proper armed guards. The sort of weapons that defend the President, that defend you all at CNN. Is it straightforward to get into your headquarters at CNN? Completely not. There’s armed guards there. There’s single factors of entry. I believe we should always take a look at our colleges as a spot that’s treasured and have the identical sort of safety that your company places of work try this we do in Congress. if we think about a spot to be necessary the place our youngsters go to study on daily basis, it ought to have the identical stage of safety as each different place whether or not it isn’t whether or not it is a shopping center or a company workplace that is onerous to get into. 

You are not going to do away with weapons, and I am not going to say that folks can not—that law-abiding residents can’t defend themselves anymore and train their Second Modification rights and assume that is going to cease mass violence. Folks will determine different methods to commit mass violence as soon as they’ve, sadly, reached that time of their life. It is tragic and it is unhappy and lots of people. We do not perceive what’s occurring. What’s inside their heads, and so we checked out these different options that I believe aren’t viable. 

BASH: There was purported to be armed guards on the colleges in each Uvalde in your house state of Texas and Parkland, and that did not assist something.