Kelly Dodd was slammed Saturday for evaluating the elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, to 9/11.
“After Sep 11 we didn’t ban planes. We secured the cockpits. Safe the colleges,” learn a message shared on the “Actual Housewives of Orange County” alum’s Twitter account.
A lot of Dodd’s followers swiftly replied to her publish, with a number of referencing the hyperlink between weapons being banned and mass shootings reducing in different international locations world wide.
“Youd [sic] moderately have colleges appear like prisons than reforming gun legal guidelines.. uhm okay. That wont traumatize the children, to have fixed reminders that adults have failed them,” one person responded.
One other Twitter person identified that way more adjustments than simply securing cockpits have been instilled after the terrorist assaults in 2001.
“After 9/11 we banned folks bringing harmful gadgets onto planes. The identical approach we will ban folks from accessing and carrying harmful gadgets that proceed to kill folks in colleges so steadily,” they wrote.
A 3rd netizen chimed in, “Your lack of empathy and understanding is obvious. Did you not see the movies of the gunman within the faculty as police and security were too scared to go inside? There isn’t any purpose for automated weapons. Have a easy gun and require a background examine— what’s improper with that?”
Dodd, a staunch conservative, beforehand made controversial feedback in regards to the COVID-19 pandemic, Black Lives Matter and different social points, finally resulting in her firing from “RHOC” final summer time.
Her newest publish got here simply 4 days after 18-year-old Salvador Ramos shot and killed 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary Faculty.
The bloodbath happened inside a single fourth-grade classroom Tuesday afternoon, with Ramos utilizing a legally purchased AR-15 rifle to commit the murders.
He was inside the school for an hour earlier than cops shot and killed him.
A number of different stars have spoken out within the wake of the tragedy, together with Jimmy Kimmel, who broke down in tears on his late-night present.
The comic opened Wednesday’s episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Reside!” with out an viewers and inspired “cowardly” lawmakers to take motion.
“Right here we’re once more on one other day of mourning on this nation. As soon as once more, we grieve for the little girls and boys whose lives have been ended and households destroyed,” Kimmel, 54, stated earlier than noting that there have already been 27 faculty shootings within the US this yr.
“Our representatives are speculated to characterize us. We wish limits on who can stroll round with an AR-15, and it rattling nicely shouldn’t be an adolescent who works at a quick meals restaurant. If we will’t agree on that, neglect it!”
