law enforcement reversed what was the initial statement about this. we covered these type of incidents before. there is room, of course, for monday morning quarterbacking and room to update information as it comes in. if you watched the news, you are familiar with that process. but there are some aspects of this painful story that are getting extra scrutiny today. a statement update says now no school official confronted the shooter outside the school. that s a change. the shooter was able to walk in through an unlocked door. 11:40, he walks into the west side of robb elementary. multiple rounds. numerous rounds were discharged in the school. four minutes later, local police departments, uvalde police department, finished the school district marred are inside. making entry. was there a school officer on campus and was that school officer armed? because that s what we have been told. so at this time no. also newly revealed video from that terrible day, what you see her
other weapons aren t in a good position to do what people claim to be the goal here, which would be again quote self-defense. there was a brave armed guard in buffalo, where ten people were killed. there were two armed officers i should say at the santa fe high school in shooting. ten also killed there. we all remember parkland, florida on this terrible list. there was an armed guard there. 17 people killed. more broadly, when you look at studies, the conseclusion clear, armed guards at schools do not prevent school shootings or gun-related incidents. according to a review of studies by the washington post . researchers stated the rate of death was actually over double and nearly triple in schools with an armed guard present. the point here is not to be idea logical and throw out any options out of hand but rather to look at what works, what fails and then decide what policies might prevent more
admit right now that he supports wanton checklist licenseless access to the very type of military grade weapon that was used in the shooting. your thoughts, joyce. the reality is and we all know this to be true, there is entirely too much nra money in our politics. there is no reason that we need to have military grade weapons publicly available and, in fact, like frank, i am a huge fan of using data when we make laws, particularly in the area of criminal justice. and in 1994, president clinton signed legislation that cleared both houses of congress with wide margins that restricted the manufacture and seam of these military weapons, assault rifles, assault pistols. those are weapons of war. they re designed to shoot multiple rounds very quickly. their purchase is to kill people. that legislation also banned
more guns. in fact, just to point out one study, last year, the general of the american medical association studied every single shooting incident from 1980 to 2019. something like 133 incidents. 25% of those had armed officers on scene or school resource officers. guess what? as you referred to, they found there was a higher death rate when a school, armed school guard or officer was present. they have a theory on this, a well read academic study. the theory is suicidal students will self select the school with the armed officer, because they know there is a higher chance that they could be killed. so you could literally be injecting the prospect of more violence into your school by placing armed people in the school. so there is a study. look, if you want safer schools right now, how about locking the doors? how about buzzing in every guest
we re going to turn now on our coverage to some of the rest of this debate. because that discussion there is very important. our top story here is the new information or the police response that turns on sort of the local policing and security situation. then there is what continues to happen here in america as people take in what is now this deadliest shooting of the year, supplanting the buffalo shooting that was just under two weeks ago. then you have this debate process that we all know about and there is this narrative that, well, maybe with calls to do more background checks, more gun safety, more potential gun control to limit the flow of guns, while one counterpunch argument coming out of walk and the right wing and elsewhere is to add more people with guns. why isn t there a requirement that there be a school safety officer, that there be somebody, a good guy with a gun? we should have a law enforcement officer at every school to be a shield.