Obama Ignores the Rational Answer

What do Al Hunt of Bloomberg News, David Gregory of “Meet the Press” and President Obama have in common -- besides their liberal politics?

With campuses in Washington, D.C. and Bethesda, Md., the highly selective private school is where the Clintons and the Gores sent their kids, along with Joe Biden’s grandchildren.

It’s also where the local 1 Percenters and the government-media elites who can afford to shell out about $32 grand a year send their children to be indoctrinated -- excuse me, educated -- and to be safe.

Unlike parents across America who are worrying about how to protect their school kids in the wake of the tragic shootings in Newtown, Conn., Sidwell parents spend their days worry-free.

Their children are better protected than the printing presses at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. And it’s not because of the heavily armed Secret Service detail posted on campus to protect first-kids Sasha and Malia Obama.

It’s because Sidwell Friends -- a Quaker school, by the way -- is defended by guards with loaded guns. In addition to the Secret Service with its Uzis and large ammo clips, Sidwell has its own security staff of 11.

I didn’t hear President Obama mention Sidwell Friends’ solution to school safety on Wednesday when he announced his sweeping plans to reduce gun violence by banning assault-style weapons and high-capacity magazines, instituting tougher gun-registration laws and taking steps to keep guns out of the hands of the mentally ill.

None of Obama’s measures would have prevented the slaughter of innocents in Connecticut, but that’s not the point. The point is pure politics and the president and his crew want to take full advantage of the Newtown shootings to advance their anti-gun agenda.

At his White House media extravaganza, the president used lawmakers, law enforcement officials and children as his props. The kids, drawn from across the U.S., had written letters to the president saying they were worried about gun violence and school safety. You can bet there were no Sidwell kids on stage with him.

While Washington’s grandstanders and anti-gun nuts prepare to fire their latest round of ineffective, politically correct, feel-good federal laws at law-abiding gun owners, at least six states are preparing new legislation that will allow teachers to carry guns into schools or require several teachers in the building to be armed.

Putting guards with guns in places that need to be protected from bad guys or crazies is not a radical idea. It’s perfectly sensible.

Politicians and celebrities use armed bodyguards all the time. We have armed guards in banks, jewelry stores and malls. After 9/11 we armed airline pilots and armed federal marshals posing as passengers.

Only politicians and hysterical celebrity dummies like Piers Morgan can’t understand why making schools gun-free zones attracts mass-murders and reduces the chances that anyone with a gun will stop them to zero.

The president never thought of using Sidwell Friends as an example of how armed guards at schools can make them safer.

He was too busy trying to score points by attacking the NRA, dreaming up laws to further oppress law-abiding gun owners and making fun of the people who know the Second Amendment isn’t about protecting duck hunters’ rights, it’s about the right of the people to protect themselves from their government.

Meanwhile, here in Los Angeles, the Catholic grade school where my daughter teaches didn’t wait around for the president or Joe Biden to come up with complicated new laws to allegedly ensure the safety of their children.

The officials at my daughter’s school decided for themselves the best way to make their campus safer. Taking a cue from the smart folks who run the Sidwell Friends School, they did a simple, effective and rational thing. They hired an armed guard.

Well let’s not forget about the secret service presence there too. No matter how you slice it, the security is heavier than most any other public school or other public venue - ehh?

“Yes, Sidwell has light security (apart from the added presence of the Secret Service due to the Obama girls). So what? “ - Sphinx

The left ridiculed the NRA for proposing a light armed presence at public schools. Absolutely ridiculed the NRA for proposing what is routine at the the private schools that the liberal elites use.

It (the Alinksi ridicule) was on at least 10 national “news” shows after the proposal by the NRA. Then, when the hypocrisy of the left is pointed out - Liberals claim ‘how dare you.’

And you support them, the liberals, in their smears with ‘so what if they want armed guards - there really aren’t that many, and they pay for them.’ (paraphrased)

Do you even get what is going on here?

That Obama is an elitist and a hypocrite goes without saying. The Census Bureau tracks school spending and reports that DC now spends over $29,000 per student in DCPS (2010 figures, published this past summer), yet Obama opposes school choice and consigns tens of thousands of mostly poor, mostly black students to dysfuntional schools.

THAT’S why sending his own kids to Sidwell is a scandal.

They went to private school in Chicago as well. No riff-raff allowed near Barack’s girls, no sir.

You can use a simple concept that works in most instances. It’s called and Entry Control Point. Funnel all visitors to one single point of entry. All you need is a Rent-A-Cop to check IDs and sound the alarm. They will be the first ones to get popped but that is an occupational hazard.

A desk, a uniform, a big panic button and some signs are all you need.

thanks for the clarification... dc does have it’s problems.. more so than some... I wonder where all that money goes that could improve the community?

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