Posted on 10/03/2006 12:40:22 PM PDT by neverdem
RENO, Nev. (AP) -- The Bush administration will host a conference next week to discuss the recent rash of school violence across the country, the White House said yesterday.
Presidential spokeswoman Dana Perino said the conference will bring together education and law-enforcement officials to talk about the nature of the problem and federal action that can help communities prevent violence and deal with its aftermath.
Three schools have been hit by deadly attacks in the past week, the latest attack coming yesterday in Pennsylvania's Amish country.
"The president is deeply saddened and troubled by the recent school violence and shootings that have taken place in different communities across America," Mrs. Perino said. "It breaks America's collective heart when innocent children who are at school to learn are violently taken hostage and cut down in their own schools."
Mrs. Perino said the conference was still in the planning stages, so a specific date, location and other details were not ready to be announced. It was not clear whether President Bush would attend.
Education Secretary Margaret Spellings, Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales and Bush domestic policy adviser Karl Zinsmeister met yesterday at the White House to discuss the conference.
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Talk to "survivors of gun violence" like former Rep. Dr. Suzanna Gratia if you want people like me to take you seriously. It's her solution we should be implementing, not your gun grabber nonsense.
I agree! Crossing the street might endanger innocents :>)They are beyond disgusting. I am surprised they waited a day for their "release". In the past it has been within hours.
Stay safe. I have a feeling this is gonna be bumpy...
Fair enough. But I think the President must be made to understand before this conference that there is a large and active group of people in this country that simply DOES NOT SUBSCRIBE to the historically knee-jerk anti-gun, anti-freedom findings of "summits" like these.
He must grant representation at the table for people who understand that it's insanity to proscribe more of the same PC garbage and expect anything other than the same sad bloody result.
What a pathetic assumption.
John Lott wouldn't hurt either.
Believing politicians act for purely altruistic reasons is the real pathos.
And that leads me to question *your* reasons for spouting off as you have.
Spare me your empathy.
And THANK GOD for that!! These "brain shrinker" shamans are part of the problem (or a result of the problems) with the current self-centered anti-social behavior, in my humble opinion.
Used to be, "couch time" was a dirty secret. Now, whenever anything happens at a school, we blanket otherwise healthy kids with "social workers" and "grief counselors."
Hell. Let em go to the lake and go fishing and focus on life, not morbid psychosis.
The grabbers will always turn these kinds of school shootings into a media circus focused on banning guns and punishing gun owners instead of where it should be focused, on workable measures to stop these nutjobs from gaining access to schools. I don't have any specific suggestions for how that can be done, but there are professional security experts available who do that sort of thing for corporate clients and could do the same for schools. If school boards can afford all the unnecessary foofoorall that my generation got along just fine without they can afford to hire expert security consultants.
Bush was willing to go along with the AWB, and has seemed very reluctant to come out in public support of pro-gun legislation even though he has signed the few pro-gun bill that have come to his desk. I guess the bottom line for me on Bush and gun owner rights is that I just don't fully trust his real attitude toward 2nd Amendment rights any more than I did his dad's.
Good luck to all of us then. With the media driven hysteria, the poling data isn't going to look good.
They need to teach kids a "Never Again" attitude instead of teaching them submissive compliance.
Deranged gunman/perverts are best handled exactly like the terrorists on flight 91. They mean to kill as many as possible, so active resistance is called for. Fight like hell to thwart them. You may die fighting, but you definitely will die complying, and fighting may give others the opportunity to survive.
The bodies of these slugs should be dragged to the public square, hung on a gibbet, burned and then thrown onto a trash dump.
Lets not forget that many Amish districts in PA & OH had 100% voter turnout to support Bush in the last election. That is "100%". They do not need to feel exploited.
BTW - The Amish detest grandstanding. They do not attend summits, nor watch them on TV. They do respect honest people that show up to meet them in person and offer condolences. Without a media crew.
Schools are already gun-free zones. I wonder why that policy didn't work...
President Bush is not known for grandstanding. You must have gotten him mixed up with x42id.
Oh yeah, let's spend millions of dollars "thinking and talking about this". Government at it's worst!
Just what I expected to come from this type of useless conference, see # 51. Sarah and her ilk will be deliriously happy just dancing in the blood of those little girls for the next few weeks, and will do everything in their power to turn the PA and CO school tragedies into a cause celebre to promote their anti-American, anti-Constitution, anti-freedom gun control schemes.
Most teachers are liberals. Liberals hate guns. Ergo, teachers will not carry guns.
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