Katie Pavlich is Editor at Townhall, a columnist in her own right, and a frequent panelist on Bret Baier's Special Report for Fox News. Today she reports the comments of former Attorney General Bill Barr who expressed an firm opinion concerning the prevention of school shootings. Barr told Fox News radio host Jimmy Failla:
I think we’re at the stage where the only thing that’s actually going to potentially prevent and intentionally have an effect are measures around the schools, especially elementary schools, to harden them, to make it much more difficult for someone to break in with a gun and keep shooting. And that will require better perimeter measures, not having the doors open where people can come in, but also police officers on site. And that’s unfortunate.
It wasn’t too long ago where we didn’t have airport security. Anyone could walk up to the gate. And now, 20-25 years later, we have intense security at airports and in office buildings we never had. And now we do.
Not bad advice. Many schools already have a single monitored entry point and serious fencing. Some also have TSA-style metal detectors.
