Scared Republicans Just Tried To Make Student Protests Go Away By Passing STOP School Violence Act

The House passed the STOP School Violence Act by a vote of 407-10, but the act is limited to providing grants for additional school security and does nothing to prevent potential shooters from getting weapons of mass killing.

ABC News reported, “The bill authorizes $50 million per year for grants administered by the Department of Justice to fund training and other initiatives intended to enhance school safety, and $25 million annually for physical improvements such as metal detectors, stronger locks, and emergency notification and response technologies for schools to notify law enforcement of emergencies.”

The STOP School Violence Act is woefully inadequate

The bill is a mini-half step toward what is needed. More school security is not going to stop mass shooters. At Sandy Hook Elementary, Adam Lanza was able to fire off 154 rounds in 5 minutes during a massacre that killed 26 people, twenty of them kindergarteners and first graders.

The answer is not to increase security and training in schools.

The STOP School Violence Act reeks of an NRA effort to blame anything, but the gun.

Students and gun control advocates aren’t going to be lulled back to sleep by the House doing the very bare minimum to protect students in schools. The time for throwing a few dollars at the problem and hoping that the public outrage goes away is long gone. The student protests are going to continue. The gun issue that Republicans don’t want to discuss is going to be pushed back to the front of our national discourse.

The STOP Act was the first step, but it doesn’t address the real problem or the reason why kids are walking out of class from coast to coast today. If Republicans think that this bill is enough, they are going to get a rude awakening in November, because a large and loud majority of voters want something done about guns.