Sir, – I have met a principal of a US elementary school in the US, whose “achievement” one summer was replacing all the classroom doors in his school, removing the old ones that had a large window to see into the classroom, with ones that just had a strip of glass one inch wide.
So no active shooter would be able to break the glass with the butt of an assault weapon and carry out the awful atrocities that we are horrified by.
I know a HR manager of a large hospital in the US midwest who had a new cupboard installed in her office with bullet-proof doors that she could hide behind.
When the design of rooms and buildings for people to use in their everyday lives gives consideration to the gun culture of a country, the argument is over. – Yours, etc,
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ORLA GILHOOLY,
Clontarf,
Dublin 3.