{"id":1510099,"date":"2022-06-10T07:49:57","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T11:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1510099"},"modified":"2022-06-10T07:50:29","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T11:50:29","slug":"a-would-be-school-invader-in-alabama-failed-when-the-doors-were-locked-and-police-werent-cowards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-would-be-school-invader-in-alabama-failed-when-the-doors-were-locked-and-police-werent-cowards\/","title":{"rendered":"A Would-Be School Invader In Alabama Failed When The Doors Were Locked And Police Weren\u2019t Cowards"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fa-would-be-school-invader-in-alabama-failed-when-the-doors-were-locked-and-police-werent-cowards%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1510099&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-09-at-4.31.25-PM.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>While Democrats continue exploiting the Uvalde shooting victims to prattle on about \u201cassault weapons\u201d and so-called \u201ccommon-sense gun control,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/abc3340.com\/news\/local\/authorities-respond-to-incident-near-walnut-park-elementary-school-in-gadsden-alabama-ema-police-emergency-june-9-2022?fbclid=IwAR3MGt-vn2qbV4qkOLFXWgruTFQoxnZ9_HKghTAT4DalljxB_y9RDAwte80\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">another school was attacked<\/a> on Thursday, but it won\u2019t make the headlines.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s because this school \u2014 Walnut Park Elementary School in Gadsden, Alabama \u2014 didn\u2019t have any victims except the would-be invader, who was shot dead by police after he tried and failed to bust into the building. Here\u2019s how it all reportedly went down. <\/p>\n<p>A passerby saw a man \u201caggressively\u201d trying to get into the school building. When the man was unsuccessful, he tried several other doors, all of which were locked. The responsible observer called to report the man, the school principal put the building on lockdown and called in a police officer who doubles as the school resource officer, and that officer called for backup. If the reports are correct, the chain of command worked smoothly thanks to decisive action and quickly followed protocols.<\/p>\n<p>The resource officer reportedly engaged the would-be invader, who then also allegedly attempted to forcefully enter a marked police vehicle and to take the officer\u2019s gun. More police officers rushed to the scene to help, and the assailant was shot and killed. According to the city\u2019s school superintendent, the schoolchildren who were there \u201cseemed to be unaware the incident occurred.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In other words, a man who \u201caggressively\u201d tried to break into a school and take the firearm of a police officer was stopped because doors were properly locked and police officers acted bravely and urgently.<\/p>\n<p>Hmm. That\u2019s interesting. Because according to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/05\/25\/as-texas-families-get-the-worst-news-imaginable-bidens-attention-is-on-the-gun-lobby\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">President Joe Biden<\/a>, failed presidential candidate <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/05\/25\/sick-sob-beto-orourke-is-such-a-desperate-narcissist-he-hijacked-a-uvalde-tragedy-briefing-for-a-campaign-stunt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Beto O\u2019Rourke<\/a>, rom-com celebrity <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/06\/08\/heres-the-fatal-flaw-in-matthew-mcconaugheys-common-sense-gun-plan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Matthew McConaughey<\/a>, and late-night political scold <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/06\/09\/jimmy-kimmel-asks-joe-biden-why-hes-not-acting-more-like-a-dictator\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jimmy Kimmel<\/a>, the only way to end the \u201ccarnage\u201d of schoolchildren being murdered is to pass anti-gun laws or issue executive orders that radically infringe on the Second Amendment but are slapped with an innocuous \u201ccommon-sense\u201d qualifier so they don\u2019t sound so bad. <\/p>\n<p>Nothing else would do the trick, such people say \u2014 despite the fact that the Uvalde killer had no problem passing a background check, entered through an unlocked door, and faced little resistance from law enforcement for a disgustingly long time.<\/p>\n<p>When Texas Sen. Ted Cruz responded to the Uvalde murder with calls for better school security in the form of <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/05\/26\/doors-how-do-they-work-lets-find-out\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">locked doors and single-point entry<\/a>, which could have prevented that killing, leftists and the corporate press <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hitc.com\/en-gb\/2022\/05\/26\/ted-cruz-doors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ridiculed<\/a> him for focusing on doors. \u201c[S]enator Ted Cruz comes out bravely against doors,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MollyJongFast\/status\/1529613341781544960\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">scoffed<\/a> The Atlantic\u2019s Molly Jong-Fast on Twitter. \u201cAre they really gonna make it about \u2018too many doors on the school\u2019? They are, aren\u2019t they?\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pattonoswalt\/status\/1529620302078316544?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">chimed in<\/a> woke comedian Patton Oswalt.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, nobody on the left wants to talk about the criminal failures of the Uvalde police and the Department of Public Safety. That\u2019s in part because if they had done their jobs rather than <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AndySpecht\/status\/1529643462953521153\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">standing outside like cowards<\/a> for the better part of an hour, lives undoubtedly would have been spared. It\u2019s also because the implication of Democrats disarming responsible citizens is that the only remaining defense will be armed government employees, who may or may not have the courage to actually help anyone.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, in Alabama on Thursday, police did have that courage, and lives were saved because of it. But Democrats and their media lapdogs won\u2019t speak a word of Walnut Park Elementary because it obliterates their gun \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/05\/25\/dont-surrender-to-do-somethingism-on-guns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">do somethingism<\/a>.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>It turns out we don\u2019t need celebrity lectures and sweeping gun control to keep schoolchildren safe. We just need locked doors and adults who do their dang jobs. <\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  Kylee Zempel is an assistant editor at The Federalist. She previously worked as the copy editor for the Washington Examiner magazine and as an editor and producer at National Geographic. She holds a B.S. in Communication Arts\/Speech and an A.S. in Criminal Justice and writes on topics including feminism and gender issues, religious liberty, and criminal justice. Follow her on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kyleezempel\">@kyleezempel<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Democrats continue exploiting the Uvalde shooting victims to prattle on about \u201cassault weapons\u201d and so-called \u201ccommon-sense gun control,\u201d another school was attacked on Thursday, but it won\u2019t make the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":514,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1510099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/514"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1510099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1510099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1510099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1510099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}