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Council of Great City Schools Pushes Anti-Second Amendment Resolution
Ammoland ^ | 8 April, 2018 | Dean Weingarten

Posted on 04/11/2018 1:21:07 PM PDT by marktwain

Council of Great City Schools Pushes Anti-Second Amendment Resolution

The Council of Great City Schools has published a resolution calling for severe infringements on the Second Amendment.

The Council of Great City Schools (CGCS) is an organization of 70 urban public school systems, first formed in 1956.  It started with 10 large, urban schools and has grown with federal funding. As such, it is not surprising it pushes causes dear to those pushing for more and bigger government, more taxes, more spending, more federal funding. It's member are nearly entirely funded by tax dollars.  Most of its teachers would be members of the far left National Education Association. When the CGCS says they wish to improve education, they are essentially saying: Give us more money. From cgcs.org:

The Council of the Great City Schools brings together 70 of nation’s largest urban public school systems in a coalition dedicated to the improvement of education for children in the inner cities. The Council and its member school districts work to help our schoolchildren meet the highest standards and become successful and productive members of society.

The Council keeps the nation’s lawmakers, the media, and the public informed about the progress and problems in big-city schools. The organization does this through legislation, communications, research, and technical assistance.

WHEREAS, too many of our young people are shot and killed on the streets of our major cities almost every day;

Many would consider this a truism, but it is not. It has underlying assumptions that are far from universally accepted. How many is too many? Is one too many? If one of the young people is shot to prevent them

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; cgcs; education; guncontrol; nea; secondamendment
The Council of Great City Schools is another Progressive organ lobbying for federal money for urban schools.
1 posted on 04/11/2018 1:21:07 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: marktwain

“... in a coalition dedicated to the improvement of education for children in the inner cities”

Yeah...


2 posted on 04/11/2018 1:25:38 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: marktwain

If they can infringe the second, they can infringe the first.


3 posted on 04/11/2018 1:26:56 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: VanDeKoik

More like a coalition dedicated to sucking ever more money from taxpayers.


4 posted on 04/11/2018 1:28:32 PM PDT by dirtboy
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To: marktwain

Council of Cultural Marxist Schools, more accurately.


5 posted on 04/11/2018 1:43:07 PM PDT by polymuser (Its terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged today. - Chesterton)
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To: marktwain

I’m sure they will provide a safe space for school administrators when the bad guys decide to shoot up the place. Teachers and student you’re SOL.


6 posted on 04/11/2018 2:05:08 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: antidemoncrat

Nope. Just give them an assault bat.


7 posted on 04/11/2018 2:07:32 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: VanDeKoik

“... in a coalition dedicated to the improvement of education for children in the inner cities”..........

All well intended? I’d suggest the go back to the drawing board, their plans aren’t working. Just go to Chicago for example and you will find its a lost cause.


8 posted on 04/11/2018 2:29:32 PM PDT by DaveA37
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To: marktwain

So these so-called teachers admit to being anti-American, anti-Constitution, and anti-Rights leftists whom the world would be far better place if they didn’t exist. Got it.


9 posted on 04/11/2018 3:39:18 PM PDT by Boomer (Leftism is a Mental Cancer on Society!)
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To: marktwain

Ask the kids a simple existential question: Who’s your daddy and why isn’t he at home?

The question might snap them out of their brainwashed condition.


10 posted on 04/11/2018 3:41:24 PM PDT by sergeantdave (Teach a man to fish and he'll steal your gear and sell it)
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