Republican lawmaker proposes putting cameras in school bathrooms to see if kids have guns
The Republican candidate for superintendent of North Carolina has a novel idea to curb school shootings: install cameras to spy on kids as they use the bathroom.
According to WFAE, Michele Morrow, a registered nurse and homeschooling advocate who won the GOP's nomination for education chief in a surprise upset against incumbent Republican Catherine Truitt, proclaimed on X, “My plan to stop people having guns in schools. 1. Controlled entry and exit doors (SRO’s and metal detectors) 2. Video surveillance in classrooms, hallways and bathrooms 3. Immediate expulsion for the remainder of the year for any violations 4. Charge parents if it is their gun.”
She also suggested this policy would be good for rooting out pedophiles, although she didn't clarify how she would address the risk that pedophiles could simply use the video surveillance of kids using the bathroom.
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Morrow has previously fanned controversy for saying that Rep. Ilhan-Omar (D-MN) should "go back to Somalia," suggesting that China stationed troops in Canada to rig the 2020 presidential election against former President Donald Trump, and promoting QAnon conspiracy theories.
Perhaps her most inflammatory remarks, however, were social media posts calling for both President Joe Biden and former President Barack Obama to be executed for treason. "We need to follow the Constitution's advice and KILL all TRAITORS!!!" she wrote in response to questions about whether she would follow CDC guidelines about wearing a mask during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Morrow's controversies come as the North Carolina GOP is also grappling with bad press for their gubernatorial nominee, current Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, who has downplayed the Holocaust, suggested politics was better before women's suffrage, attacked school shooting survivors as "prosti-tots," denigrated LGBTQ people as Satanic, and has been accused of failing to file taxes and falsifying paperwork for a day care his family once ran.