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Topic: White House may consider
funding for police in
schools after Newtown |
White House may consider
funding for police in
schools after Newtown
Washington Post, by Philip Rucker
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Posted By:Dreadnought, 1/11/2013 9:03:05 AM
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| The Obama administration is considering funding many more police officers in public schools to secure campuses, a leading Democratic senator said, part of a broad gun violence agenda that is likely to include a ban on high-capacity ammunition clips and universal background checks. The school safety initiative, one of several under consideration, would make federal dollars available to schools that want to hire police officers and install surveillance equipment, although it is not nearly as far-ranging as the National Rifle Association’s proposal for armed guards in every U.S. school.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
G-Tom, 1/11/2013 9:08:07 AM (No. 9110427)
This could help the unemployment stats; "shovel-ready" jobs as it were.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
VinGoombatz, 1/11/2013 9:11:01 AM (No. 9110434)
Wow. Fascism continutes apace.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Johnny Angle, 1/11/2013 9:13:20 AM (No. 9110442)
I thought the Feds were broke. Will the Chinese pay for this?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
LudicrousSextus, 1/11/2013 9:16:13 AM (No. 9110449)
It´s pretty amusing that media flipped out over the NRA´s suggestion that armed cops be in schools...
Oddly - they didn´t flip out when Clinton proposed the same thing while president...
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
antiquegolf, 1/11/2013 9:27:29 AM (No. 9110470)
Let schools pay for their own armed guards. Make it an unfunded federal mandate. Each public school district can easily cut enough leftist drivel to pay the salary of one armed guard per school. Just one example, yesterday at the public h.s. where I work, the district paid a speaker $7-8 thousand plus expenses to inspire the children in an assembly. He talked for close to 2 hours while the kids, teachers, even the principal yawned and squimed in their chairs.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
antiquegolf, 1/11/2013 9:29:45 AM (No. 9110473)
Again, I should not post when angry.
Squirmed . . . . .
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
rabbit, 1/11/2013 9:48:15 AM (No. 9110515)
I don´t understand why the NRA chooses to fight universal background checks. Why do they whine about ´failed solutions´? This has never been done before. What is wrong with allowing people to voluntarily put their name on a background check list?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Liberal like Jefferson, 1/11/2013 9:53:59 AM (No. 9110533)
This overhyped we-gotta-do-SOMETHING stuff that crops up after an event such as this is what got us DHS and the TSA.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
antiquegolf, 1/11/2013 9:56:37 AM (No. 9110541)
Universal background checks. Voluntary?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Cor-vet, 1/11/2013 10:00:01 AM (No. 9110548)
Is this coming out of the Executive Branch budget, since the White House is funding it? Maybe evrytime this idiot throws money at something, we should make it from his budget!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
LouD, 1/11/2013 10:02:40 AM (No. 9110558)
The feds always do something like come up with some money for more cops, but only for a short time. Then the local taxpayers are stuck with the bill from then on to infinity. Salary is just the beginning. Then there are the perqs, like sick days, vacations, personal days, pension liabilities, etc. First thing you know is we end up really stuck.
A couple of trained and armed teachers would be much cheaper and more effective.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Pinchem, 1/11/2013 10:08:31 AM (No. 9110574)
I bet the Media doesn´t have the ethics, integrity or the guts to find out how many registered Guns and CCL´s are in the possession of members of:
The Mafia
New Black Panthers
Nation of Islam
KKK
U.S. Islamic Groups
Communist Party USA
U.S. Socialist Party
Come on MSM, show us your true Allegiance.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Veritas2009, 1/11/2013 10:10:05 AM (No. 9110580)
All the cops got to joinin the TSA Union and all the kids got to take off their shoes before they go to class.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Udanja99, 1/11/2013 10:15:41 AM (No. 9110589)
As usual, zippy blames others for his mistakes and tries to take credit for other people´s ideas.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
WalkingLadyLiberty, 1/11/2013 10:36:07 AM (No. 9110642)
As a school board trustee, this belongs in my domain. We don´t need or want federal intervention in our schools PERIOD
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Blue-Z-Anna, 1/11/2013 10:40:20 AM (No. 9110652)
What part of:´........shall not be infringed´
are you having the most trouble with ?
"Infringed" implies fussing around the edges and prohibits this typical leftist incrementalism.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
BaseballFan, 1/11/2013 10:59:33 AM (No. 9110684)
Right, sure - Obama is considering funding more police.
And Bill Clinton was going to put 100,000 more cops on the streets.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Persecutor2, 1/11/2013 11:08:40 AM (No. 9110709)
I just wonder how many of those media savants that trashed Wayne LaPierre for suggesting this are going to trash 0 for it. Actually, I don´t wonder at all. BTW, I don´t think I´ve seen a more appropriate screen name lately than #7. What the heck is a "universal background check" anyway? Everyone in the US entered into an ATF database in case they may decide to buy a gun someday? Are people having a moving sale supposed to go thru the same hoops Dick´s Sporting Goods does to sell millions of guns just to get rid of Grampa´s old Stevens single-shot .410?
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
stablemoney, 1/11/2013 1:32:30 PM (No. 9111043)
Will there be an assistant security officer when they go on breaks, break for lunch? How can one security officer be all over a campus? More may be needed. Will taxpayers fund security officer training? Should security officers be federal employees and allowed to join public unions? Will security officers be armed with Glocks and military rifles, or just a revolver? Will security officer be allowed to arrest or discipline unruly students? Knowing that a security officer is on campus, and a killer plans to kill people, what happens when a killer identifies his location and takes him out first?
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