Posted on 12/21/2012 1:24:42 PM PST by matt04
Boston Mayor Thomas Menino is criticizing the National Rifle Association's call for armed police and security volunteers to be posted at schools.
He said the group's proposal "is not a plan, but a ploy to bring more guns into our neighborhoods."
Menino reacted in a statement Friday after the NRA commented on last week's shooting at a Connecticut elementary school that killed 26 children and staff. The nation's largest gun-rights lobby blamed video games, movies and music videos, saying they expose children to a violent culture day in and day out.
The mayor said Americans are tired of the same buzzwords and rhetoric that have moved the gun control debate nowhere.
Menino and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg lead a coalition of mayors pushing to end gun violence.
A dumbass at that. Saying the NRA plan is only a plan to bring more guns into a neighborhood is humorous at best. At least these guns are friendly, protective guns. Apparently the mayor only wants the criminal guns in the neighborhood. How do these people breathe with the head so far up their rear-end?
‘He said the group’s proposal “is not a plan, but a ploy to bring more guns into our neighborhoods.” ‘
The reason he says this is that he really doesn’t give a rip about protecting school kids. Or anything practical/pragmatic that will actually work.
He’s only interested in using the horror for promoting his Marxist agenda........
One only has to remember when air travel was conducted in a gun free zone. Islamic terrorists had it pretty easy taking over in mid-flight.
Then it was announced armed air marshalls would be put aboard the flights and the Captain would be armed. After that there was a noticeable drop in terrorist takeovers and hostage taking. And that was before TSA was on the scene.
Morons refuse to see the connection.
Boston Mayor Thomas Menino is stained with the blood of the Sandy Hook massacre victims along with all those who promote the criminalization of self defense.
Shame on Mayor Thomas Menino.
The left cannot admit the 1990 Gun Free Schools Act has been as big a failure as the 1994 AWB and the 1968 GCA. Since they cannot allow this failure to be noted at large, they scream hysterically about gun bans and attack anyone who disagrees with them. Educate your neighbors.
No matter how good the proposition, there will always be some number of dick responses.
How about tacking on 2 years of Peace Officer service to the current tenure requirements for Police duty? I make this suggestion for those “retiring” in their 40s.
He has no clue who Citizen Joe and Citizen Jane is. One of them one day, may save him or his family.
>>I think it would be fine if each community had the local law enforcement agencies in the schools.
I think its a terrible idea. We don’t need law enforcement officers with their benefits and pensions standing around a school all day. We need armed security guards just like a bank or an armored car has. I assume that other states have a “G” armed security guard license similar to the one that Florida has? We could create a couple thousand $11/hr jobs in no time and they wouldn’t break the taxpayers’ backs like full-blown cops would cost us.
Armed guards in schools will be the only thing that stops this kind of madness. Nothing stops a crazed shooter like a bullet in the head.
When a crazed killer goes into your kid’s classroom, who do you want protecting him, a well trained, well armed guard or a liberal gun grabber? It’s time to decide.
Nothing surprising or unexpected here. Not news really.
Retired police and military from the community is all that’s needed. They would probably volunteer one day a week.
“[Assault weapons’] menacing looks, coupled with the public’s confusion over fully-automatic machine guns versus semi- automatic assault weapons —anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a machine gun— can only increase the chance of public support for restrictions on these weapons.” Josh Sugarmann, executive director of New Right Watch, spokesman for the National Coalition to Ban Handguns, “Assault Weapons and Accessories in America,” policy report of New Right Watch and the Education Fund to End Handgun Violence, September 1988
“Our main agenda is to have all guns banned. We must use whatever means possible. It does not matter if you have to distort facts or even lie.”
-Sarah Brady, Handgun Control, Inc., The National Educator, January, 1994
“If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an out right ban, picking up every one of them... ‘Mr. and Mrs. America, turn ‘em all in,’ I would have done it. I could not do that. The votes weren’t here.”-Dianne Feinstein, Senator, CBS-TV’s “60 Minutes,” February 5, 1995
“Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of the citizen to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should not be very carefully used and that definite rules of precaution should not be taught and enforced. But the right of the citizen to bear arms is just one more safeguard against a tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible.” - Hubert Humphrey(bitter clinger), 1960
“Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.”- William Pitt, 1783
“Gun bans don’t disarm criminals, gun bans attract them.”- Walter Mondale, U.S. Ambassador to Japan(bitter clinger), April 20, 1994
“You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.”
— Rahm Emanuel
Comedians Menino and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg led a coalition of mayors pushing to end gun violence by taking away guns from law abiding citizens, allowing only the government and criminals to own guns. Apparently they do not believe that armed guards will change the situation in spite of loads of evidence to the contrary.
He's the only Big City Mayor in America who the voters keep in office just because they know he'll never get hired at another job, Barney Frank isn't looking for a new boyfriend yet, and they feel bad for him.
Tommy Mumbles is the village idiot, minus a few million brain cells. What a pathetic loser.
“As their elected mayor, I know that the people of Boston are both stupid and violent, and if given the tools to be murderously violent, they would use them. Mothers gunning down their own children for crying, grandmothers using assault rifles to shoot up stores because they no longer sell Twinkies.
“The people of Boston are just animals, I say, animals! Were it not for me, they would be living in caves and cannibalizing each other. But under my paternal guidance, I at least have them wearing clothes and walking on their hind legs! But I would not trust them with anything more dangerous than crayons.”
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