Posted on 01/18/2013 11:21:18 AM PST by Kaslin
Among his 23 gun control executive orders, President Obama authorized the spending of $150 million to hire “up to 1,000” armed resource officers and school counselors.
Just one problem: there are 98,817 government schools in America, according to the National Center for Education Statistics, a federal agency. Therefore only 1 percent of schools would potentially benefit from Obama’s new government solution.
Apparently the other 99 percent (hey, where have we heard that term before?) would be left to the whims of deranged individuals who think it’s acceptable to slaughter children.
Hiring 1,000 new government employees to potentially cover, on average, 100 schools each isn’t going to do a whole lot. So what’s the point of spending all of that tax money?
They might have a better idea in Orrville, Ohio, where the school board has authorized a science teacher who is also a part-time police officer to carry a gun in class. That school won’t have to worry about getting one of the very few resources officers provided by the federal government.
Obama is also requiring Congress to provide $30 million in “one-time grants” for school districts to create “emergency management plans.”
He then creates an unfunded mandate by requiring states and school districts to maintain those plans on a continual basis, even after the grant money is gone.
Obama also is offering an additional $50 million for 8,000 schools to train teachers and other school staff to implement strategies to increase “nurturing school climates” and to curb “violence and bullying.”
But only 8 percent of schools will benefit from that expenditure. What about the bullying going on at the other 92 percent?
It is hard to see how any of this is little more than window dressing. Throwing money around to a select few schools isn’t going to accomplish much of anything.
But it gives the appearance of a president taking action, and that’s the political goal.
Congress’ children will be protected.
They are also immune to ObamaCARE and DeathPanels.
The rest of America? ==> Death, Taxes and slavery
because Congress only protects ITSELF.
Ironic that he ridicules the NRAs proposal to add armed security in the schools, and then quietly does the very same thing via this EO.
I was just thinking about… school safety
By K.B. Sherman
Guns are again the topic of conversation across the nation in the aftermath of the Connecticut school mass shooting. Opinions range from banning all but flint-lock rifles to having the federal government ensure a police office on duty in every school. Unfortunately, neither of these ideas can work. Banning private firearms violates the Constitution, the most recent Supreme Court decisions, and public sentiment. On the other hand, a police officer at each school would be too expensive to afford when our government representatives refuse to cut any spending at all, even if it is to spend two million dollars to study how fast a shrimp can run on a treadmill.
So let me make a modest proposal. How about a website called saveourgrandkids.org. Everyone receiving Social Security would be encouraged to donate twenty dollars a month. In Massachusetts in 2011, there were 197,327 recipients of Social Security. That would amount to $3,947,000 a year. There were 1,934 public schools in Massachusetts as of 2011. The pay and benefits of a policeperson runs, on average, about $60,000/year. The $20 monthly donations would fund 65 officers without the towns having to contribute anything. If the school protection detail were to rotate each officer each day among schools, it would mean that at least once each month on average an armed officer would appear at any one school in their own unmarked cars. Bad guys with guns would never know which day they could be expected to be met by a good guy or gal with a gun when they decided to shoot innocent students and teachers.
I know this is simplistic, but it’s a good idea. I realize most SSI recipients are disabled rather than retired, but is $20 so much for greatly enhanced safety of a school kid? People have written that there are never any mass shootings at police stations, NRA conventions, or military firearms ranges. Duh. It is clear that not even the craziest murderer is crazy enough to strike where they know they are likely to be shot dead in short order. Rather, they strike in the insanely dangerous, so-called “gun free zones.”
Who knows? If this idea were to catch-on, perhaps people would give more than $20/month to save the lives of their kids and grandkids. Towns might even contribute.
Crazy, huh?
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http://www.communityadvocate.com/2013/01/02/i-was-just-thinking-about-school-safety/
This is how liberalism always works. Even if an idea might be good in theory (which this one isn’t), there’s never enough money to really have an impact.
I swear we have become a modern USSR.
What is it about these socialists that come out with these dramatic round numbers?
It’s always a dramatic announcement of 1000 security guards in schools, 50,000 cops nationwide, or 50,000 new teachers.
WE are constantly hearing about the “recovery”, and all the jobs being created. We even literally hear about his 5 year plans.
Im waiting to hear him slip and say that the Ukranian wheat harvest exceeded expectations by 40%.
It’s the lies of a centrally planned economy.
“So let me make a modest proposal. How about a website called saveourgrandkids.org. Everyone receiving Social Security would be encouraged to donate twenty dollars a month. In Massachusetts in 2011, there were 197,327 recipients of Social Security. That would amount to $3,947,000 a year. There were 1,934 public schools in Massachusetts as of 2011. The pay and benefits of a policeperson runs, on average, about $60,000/year. The $20 monthly donations would fund 65 officers without the towns having to contribute anything. If the school protection detail were to rotate each officer each day among schools, it would mean that at least once each month on average an armed officer would appear at any one school in their own unmarked cars. Bad guys with guns would never know which day they could be expected to be met by a good guy or gal with a gun when they decided to shoot innocent students and teachers”
I got a better idea. Hows about we not give 2 billion to Morsi in Egypt in direct aid, we not give him fleets of F-16s and work on a deal where we can buy him a billion dollars worth of German subs? Then we don’t give Pakistan a billion. Then we don’t give Afghanistan 6 billion like we did last year. Tens of billions are given away to moslem dictatorships that are dorectly run by Al qeida.
Oh,, and no money for so called palestinans either.
And I'm sure every school in the country has at least one guy like this science teacher who would be willing to do the job with no additional Federal money being flushed down the toilet.
But then, Obama couldn't say "See what I dun?"
I like your idea better
I keep waiting and waiting for my phone to ring and for the government to ask me for a few ideas,,
Most schools already have contracts with private security firms. Let those firms train qualified employees in firearm use and safety, and provide armed security. One out of every seven cops can be reassigned to school duty. Let the other six reorganize their duties, and rotate them. The schools can provide free donuts and meals to the cops. Have at least one school administrator in each school, and one teacher take firearms courses, and have them carry while on duty. The increased expenses should be minimal, and unlike with Obama’s useless idiocy, children will be safer, and lives will be saved.
Send all of them to Sidwell Friends School. Apparently, those kids' lives are worthy of protection.
We have a very high number of CHL holders (I think highest percentage of any city in the State of Texas) and were ranked by Forbes (2010 I think) as the safest city in the nation with a population over 150,000.
Population is pushing 300,000 last I checked.
We have a very high number of CHL holders (I think highest percentage of any city in the State of Texas) and were ranked by Forbes (2010 I think) as the safest city in the nation with a population over 150,000.
Bingo.
Their children will never be forced by law into gun free zones to become soft targets for crazies to prey on.
Their children will never be faced with fines for refusing government mandates to buy government approved health insurance.
Their children with never have to support their parents because their parents will live on full pensions at taxpayer expense.
It makes me sick. These people don't serve the public, they feed off it.
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