4 Steps Every School Can Take to Help Prevent Shootings

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🗓️ 25 May 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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There are four steps schools can take to prevent tragedies like the one in Uvalde, Texas, Steven Bucci, a Heritage Foundation visiting fellow, says. “[I]t doesn’t have to be like this,” Bucci says. “We can mitigate the risk of these kind of things happening. I won’t say that any system is perfect and is going to stop every tragic incident, but boy, we could do a better job at it than we’re doing.”

Americans across the nation are mourning with the people of Texas and all the families who lost loved ones in the shooting at Robb Elementary School.

Two teachers and 19 students were killed by a gunman, leaving Americans to ask, how can we ensure a tragedy like this never happens again?

Bucci served our country for three decades as an Army Special Forces officer and top Pentagon official, and has served on the front lines of a number of tragedies. He joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss four practical steps every school can take to prevent shootings, and minimize casualties if one does occur.

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0:00.0	This is a special bonus edition of the Daily Signal Podcast on Wednesday, May 25th.
0:10.8	I'm Virginia Allen. The nation right now is grieving with all Texans as we remember those
0:16.6	lives lost in the tragic school shooting there. And so many Americans are asking that question right
0:23.3	now of how did this happen and also wanting to know how can we prevent this from ever happening
0:29.0	again. So today I'm so pleased to sit down with Heritage Foundation Visiting Fellow Steve Bootsie
0:34.8	to discuss just that how we can prevent school shootings like this from happening in our nation ever again.
0:44.2	I am pleased to welcome to the show Heritage Foundation Visiting Fellow Steven Bootsie.
0:49.9	Steve served our country for three decades as an Army Special Forces officer and top Pentagon
0:55.6	official. Steve, thank you so much for being here today. Oh, it's my pleasure to be here. I'm not
1:03.5	a pleasure to be talking about this particular subject, but thank you for having me. Yeah, no,
1:07.7	I really appreciate your insights. Steve at this time is really the whole nation is grieving right
1:12.6	right alongside all the folks in Texas. And of course we grieve with every single family member who
1:20.0	lost a loved one Tuesday at Rob Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. 19 students were killed and
1:27.2	two teachers lost their lives. The gunman we know is also dead, but there's a lot that we still don't
1:32.8	know. Steve, you have served our country on the front lines in so many tragedies. What were your
1:39.4	first thoughts when you heard the news Tuesday? Well, first one was obviously oh gosh, not again.
1:47.8	But the the the next one is it doesn't have to be like this. We can we can mitigate the risk of
1:56.9	these kind of things happening. You know, I won't say that any system is perfect and is going to
2:02.4	stop every tragic incident. But boy, we could do a better job at it than we're doing. And the the
2:10.1	simple tropes that you hear will just ban guns and you know, we just it's just some of the things
2:17.2	are silly because they don't work. They haven't worked or they're already in place and the people
2:24.4	calling for them are just you know, chasing a political agenda. And that's not what we need to do.
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