Uvalde, why the children died

No, this article is not about why the Uvalde police were incompetent, only concerned about their own safety with their primary jobs being giving out speeding and parking tickets.

And no, this isn’t about further laws restricting weapons, since politicians in typically Republican districts are far more concerned about their high paid congressional jobs, and a fat vested federal pension after five years. Six years, a pension of ~$33,000 a year, twelve years, ~$66,000 a year, forever.

Plus lining up the very high paid “consulting jobs” for the companies that they did “financial favors” for before they choose to move on, out of government.

Obviously once they have wrung dry every benefit they can, they’ll move on. Voting to change the gun laws is a recipe for not being reelected. No, no, no!

Yes, make lots of noise (especially just after an election) but then forget about it.

And they know, that in a month, Uvalde will sadly be forgotten due to other disasters, (do you remember the supermarket killings a few weeks ago in Buffalo, New York?) and only the grief stricken parents will continue to suffer forever.

And the lawyers will be happy, of course, and will care about the money they will make, lined up to soak the insurance companies. And soak they will, to the glee of the legal vultures.

Rather it’s about a proposal I made eight years ago, when I ran for the U.S. Congress. I didn’t win, notably because unless your name is recognized by the public, or you are the incumbent they are unlikely to check your box when they vote.

Voters vote for familiar names, the word incumbent in their district and if the ballot has the word Republican or Democrat against the name. That’s about all that matters.

That’s why ballots rarely show competition in districts where there are incumbents, but if it’s an open seat then… watch out as there are dozens waiting in the wings for the primaries.

For example, would Herschel Walker have won Georgia’s U.S. Senate primary a few days ago if it wasn’t for his name? Same for George  W. Bush? Without his father’s name, his career would probably have been stocking grocery shelves.

So here’s the idea that if I would have won and worked to get this idea into federal law and funded, most of the children would have survived. It’s really simple…

Have you ever thought about why school buses have an emergency exit at the back of the bus? It’s so the kids can escape quickly if they need to. The same should apply to school classrooms.

I proposed, after the Sandy Hook murders in 2012, that EVERY classroom in the United States would have an installed emergency one-way exit door, so when a murderer enters a classroom from a hallway, the children and teachers could run for it into the street or campus. At this time children are trapped since there usually is only one hallway door.

That was the Uvalde disaster.

For two-story schools, the upper floor would have a fast opening window with several rope ladders or similar. It isn’t perfect, nothing is, but many of the murdered Uvalde children would be alive today.

The key problem in the Uvalde disaster is that the children were trapped. Sad to say, nobody is interested in solutions… it’s all about the guns and reelections.