Posted on 12/26/2012 12:51:40 PM PST by grundle
Some interesting news has broken in the wake of the latest push for gun control by President Obama and Senate Democrats: Obama sends his kids to a school where armed guards are used as a matter of fact.
The school, Sidwell Friends School in Washington, DC, has 11 security officers and is seeking to hire a new police officer as we speak.
If you dismiss this by saying, "Of course they have armed guards -- they get Secret Service protection," then you've missed the larger point.
The larger point is that this is standard operating procedure for the school, period. And this is the reason people like NBC's David Gregory send their kids to Sidwell, they know their kids will be protected from the carnage that befell kids at a school where armed guards weren't used (and weren't even allowed).
Shame on President Obama for seeking more gun control and for trying to prevent the parents of other school children from doing what he has clearly done for his own. His children sit under the protection guns afford, while the children of regular Americans are sacrificed.
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Surely you can imagine a way to avoid paying for NEW security personnel. My local school has had two State Troopers at the school since Newtown. No additional officers were hired to perform this function...resources were simply reallocated. The argument against funding new personnel is a strawman argument. Schools could even approve retirees with CCW to spend one day a week “visiting”, and arm willing staff.
Red Rider BB guns only! sarc/
simply shocking...a Quaker school with firearms on the campus.... Pooooft... my view of the World.
“My biggest problem is what kind of guards would they get. Qualified Police Officers or Rent a cop SEIU Union members”
I would think that the most motivated would be parents or teacher/administration. BTW the NRA has a great training program for civilians and cops.
yeah, but his kids are important, not like yours
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