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It's incredibly stupid timing, a very political move, and one used to detract from legitimate and important attempts to address rational gun regulation in the US.

And, to be honest, it's a potentially high quality structural intervention to address this problem. If there is only a single non-alarmed point of entry into a building with a mandatory security checkpoint, that's a strong intervention for noticing and acting quickly upon people with obvious firearms. This is, of course, in a vacuum. There are a whole host of problems with making such an intervention. Nonetheless, things like this really do need to be on the table. Ultimately, structural interventions that force things to happen only 1 way are the strongest ones. This is basic quality control, engineering principle, etc. You standardize and minimize points of failure (e.g. moving parts). Human vigilance and even redundancy can be quite ineffective.

Of course, no guns is a stronger intervention. That is not on the table in the US at this time in history.