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Gregory Mocks LaPierre for Proposing Armed Guards,Sends Kids to High-Security School
Weekly Standard ^ | 12/23/12 | DANIEL HALPER

Posted on 12/23/2012 3:42:45 PM PST by jimbo123

David Gregory mocked the NRA's Wayne LaPierre for proposing that armed guards be at every school in America. But the NBC host seems to have no problem with armed guards protecting his kids everyday where they attend school in Washington, D.C.

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The Gregory children go to school with the children of President Barack Obama, according to the Washington Post. That school is the co-ed Quaker school Sidwell Friends.

According to a scan of the school's online faculty-staff directory, Sidwell has a security department made up of at least 11 people. Many of those are police officers, who are presumably armed.

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KEYWORDS: banglist; democrats; guncontrol; hypocrisy; schools; secondamendment; security
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To: jimbo123
His job is there because the media has an impact on us yet he will not go after the DNC's largest contributor.

He should be waving a dvd box set of:


21 posted on 12/23/2012 4:49:18 PM PST by NoLibZone (If the left gave the money they make on violence, we could feed all the hungry and reduce the defict)
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To: Rembrandt

Or the Muslim Brotherhood billions and the crony capitalists who start up these phony green energy enterprises.


22 posted on 12/23/2012 4:51:42 PM PST by deweyfrank
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To: jimbo123
Does Gregory know that Barbara Boxer first suggested deploying the National Guard to our schools four days ago? Shouldn't Gregory be mocking Boxer for the idea, and not LaPierre?

-PJ

23 posted on 12/23/2012 4:58:57 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: jimbo123
April 16, 2000 LA Times article tells of President Bill Clinton making available federal grants to hire armed guards at schools to help protect our children on the anniversary of the Columbine shooting.

Wait a minute, federally funded armed guards are good if they are recommended by Clinton, but a Neanderthal idea if proposed by the NRA? So the content of the information isn't what makes something good or bad, it is who says the information.

More people need to know that what Wayne LaPierre suggested is what some beloved Democratic party leaders have suggested. What people also need to know is that truth doesn't matter, protecting our children doesn't matter, what matters to the left is gotcha politics.

America is going to get a symbolic solution that will produce no meaningful results because nothing else is possible without cooperation b all sides on the issue.

24 posted on 12/23/2012 5:08:56 PM PST by Robert357 (D.Rather "Hoist with his own petard!" www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1223916/posts)
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To: TigersEye
It’s not possible to be a Progressive and not be a hypocrite.

Sooooo tagable...

25 posted on 12/23/2012 5:20:31 PM PST by GOPJ (ItÂ’s not possible to be a Progressive and not be a hypocrite. Freeper TigersEye.)
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To: jimbo123

The solution is allow concealed carry at schools. That would not cost the tax payer much and would be very effective.


26 posted on 12/23/2012 5:21:07 PM PST by jpsb
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To: Political Junkie Too
Does David Gregory (punk) know that Bill Clinton suggested putting cops in schools in 2000?

Flashback: Clinton Requests $60 Million to Put Cops in Schools

27 posted on 12/23/2012 5:28:01 PM PST by TigersEye (Who is John Galt?)
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To: GOPJ

100% true too! ;-)


29 posted on 12/23/2012 5:29:21 PM PST by TigersEye (Who is John Galt?)
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To: jimbo123

It appears that liberals would prefer more children to be endangered than to do something as unthinkable as actually agree with the bloodthirsty, evil NRA.


30 posted on 12/23/2012 5:35:56 PM PST by tlp2001 (Capitalism is based on human strength, communism is based on human weakness)
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To: jpsb
The solution is allow concealed carry at schools. That would not cost the tax payer much and would be very effective.

The real advantage of the concealed carry option is that until its pulled, no one knows who has one.

Armed guards can be spotted, distracted, eliminated, or just worked around. If the bad guys don't know who has what, planning one of their murderous escapades becomes much more difficult and problematical.

Even schools where no one carries will still benefit.

31 posted on 12/23/2012 5:51:31 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: F15Eagle

I’m sorry I missed the exchange between Gregory and Wayne LaPierre on Meet the Press. I’m in the process of moving into a new house and trying to get ready for the holidays, so I didn’t check FR until late today, AFTER my oldest daughter ran into Gregory in the Charlotte airport. She said a lot of passengers were fawning over the guy; if I had known about his comments to Mr. LaPierre, I would have told her to ask Gregory about the armed guards at the private school attended by his children. She thinks Gregory is an ass and would have no problem embarrassing him in front of his “admirers.”

One more thing: that eleven member security team at Sidwell Friends is just the tip of the iceberg. With Obama’s daughters enrolled, there is a continuous Secret Service presence as well, and I’m guessing tax dollars have been spent to upgrade school security, just as the agency makes modifications at the homes of former presidents who still receive protection.

It’s also rather interesting that Gregory’s wife is a former general counsel for Fannie Mae who resigned from the organization after it imploded in 2008. Naturally, she was never sanctioned or faced criminal charges, and quickly became a partner at a major NYC law firm.

My daughter also found it curious that Mr. Gregory was on a flight to Lexington, KY today, traveling by himself. No family in tow, and no camera crew in tow. I wasn’t aware of any breaking news out of Lexington today, certainly nothing that would require the presence of an NBC News star. I also can’t find anything in Gregory’s bio (or his wife’s) that mentions any ties to the Commonwealth. Perhaps some KY FReepers can do a little digging.


32 posted on 12/23/2012 6:01:33 PM PST by ExNewsExSpook
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To: jimbo123

A typical hypocritical ass. I hope whoever he has on next week finds a way to work that little factoid into the conversation.


33 posted on 12/23/2012 7:24:06 PM PST by Uncle Chip
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To: Yardstick

He should have been armed with the ammo against the elites sending their kids to armed and guarded schools.

In fact, this needs to be put out there in every interview and publication.


34 posted on 12/23/2012 7:47:03 PM PST by soycd
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To: jimbo123
Contact the Meet the Press scum about this hypocrisy: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6872152/ns/meet_the_press-more/t/meet-press-mailbox/ Won't do too much good — their leftist mindset won't let them see their own hypocrisy — but enough messages might make these hypocritical scum back down a little.
35 posted on 12/24/2012 12:02:43 AM PST by piytar (The predator-class is furious that their prey are shooting back.)
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