In his letter to the governor outlining his legislative priorities around school safety, Tennessee’s Lieutenant Governor Randy McNally proposed stronger windows, magnetic glass, cameras and armed guards. He did not mention the word “gun” or “firearm” at all in his two-page letter, which compared his proposals to combat the epidemic of mass shootings in American schools to regulations that have “decreased the amount of school building fires.”
His letter echoes a similar response among Republican officials in the aftermath of the massacre inside a Nashville elementary school on 27 March, when a heavily armed assailant equipped with an AR-style rifle, a 9mm pistol calibre carbine and a 9mm handgun killed three nine-year-old children and three school employees.
