Kelly Dodd Faces Backlash For Comparing Uvalde, Texas School Shooting To 9/11 

RHOC Star Kelly Dodd Under Fire For Comparing Texas School Shooting To 9/11

“Real Housewives of Orange County” star is one of many celebrities who have weighed in on the tragic elementary school shooting in Texas that left 21 people dead.

Over the weekend, the RHOC alum shared a tweet that read, “After 9-11 we didn’t ban planes. We secured the cockpits. Secure the schools.”

Social media users reacted to the post, with some slamming her for the comparison. One user wrote, “You’d [sic] rather have schools look like prisons than reforming gun laws.. uhm ok. That won’t traumatize the kids, to have constant reminders that adults have failed them.”

 

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Another responded saying, “Focusing on securing the schools from mass murderers is as asinine as making cars much safer during crashes so we can drink and drive without killing anyone. The problem is not the school. It’s the guns, regardless of how you try to distract us.”

However, there were a few people to agree with her. Another tweeted, “she’s not wrong. We traumatize our kids with BS lockdown drills yet due NOTHING to actually keep them safer from a sad but real threat.”

Dodd is now responding to the online backlash. She recently shared a new video on her Instagram page where she explained that she just agreed with the post that she re-shared.

She added that the post was “meant simply to encourage better security at schools!”

 

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