In what seems like a surprise move, the White House working group on gun control is considering expanding federal funding for cops in schools.

It was the NRA's Wayne LaPierre who, a week after the shooting in Newtown, recommended placing armed police officers in every school in America.
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The White House has found that even many Democrats support the idea of cops in schools. Senator Barbara Boxer told the Post, "If a school district wants to have a community policing presence, I think it’s very important they have it." Ninety percent of large, urban high schools already have SROs on duty; however, the majority of schools, especially at the elementary level, have no security at all.
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http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/...Cops-in-Schools

I'll believe it when I see it.

Whitehouse trying to get ahead of the game, there is no reason to fund cops in schools, either let volunteers become unpaid deputies or use existing cops. If the local police have man power to chase speeders and hookers, they have the man power to put cops in the parking lots of school, they can chase hookers and speeders at knight on on the weekend. Seems they have plenty of cops around sporting events.

I would like to see the federal government stick to federal issues and leave the education and protection of our children to us.

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I would like to see the federal government stick to federal issues and leave the education and protection of our children to us.

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I would like to see the federal government stick to federal issues and leave the education and protection of our children to us.

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LaPierre was very wrong to recommend federal funding.

I can see it now. The TSA will develop a special arm for education. In order to get an education, children will have a choice of being irradiated or molested. Private schools and home schools will be declared a danger to the welfare of children if they don't provide TSA approved armed guards.

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I would like to see the federal government stick to federal issues and leave the education and protection of our children to us.

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LaPierre was very wrong to recommend federal funding.

I can see it now. The TSA will develop a special arm for education. In order to get an education, children will have a choice of being irradiated or molested. Private schools and home schools will be declared a danger to the welfare of children if they don't provide TSA approved armed guards.

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Right! Anything run by the federal government is a big bureaucratic mess!

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The man did not recommend federal funding, he said obama cancelled the prior funding program, need the money for his green engery kickbacks. I guess.

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The man did not recommend federal funding, he said obama cancelled the prior funding program, need the money for his green engery kickbacks. I guess.

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Here are LaPierre's exact words:

"I call on Congress today to act immediately, to appropriate whatever is
necessary to put armed police officers in every school — and to do it
now, to make sure that blanket of safety is in place when our children
return to school in January."

http://home.nra.org/pdf/Transcript_pdf.pdf

It's an expansion the the Federal gov poking it's nose where it doesn't belong. You know that old saying about he who pays the piper .......

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You need to ask your self how many years of guarding schools could have been provided by the money holder and the ATF spent on illegal gun sells to mexico. Take the money out of ATF's budget, they are just peeing it away.

Current atf buget, for which you receive nothing, 1.5 billion. Well not really nothing some of them get to chase hookers in south america.

Good move. Not every school needs a policeman, but those that do are safer for having them.

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Here are LaPierre's exact words:

"I call on Congress today to act immediately, to appropriate whatever is
necessary to put armed police officers in every school — and to do it
now, to make sure that blanket of safety is in place when our children
return to school in January."

http://home.nra.org/pdf/Transcript_pdf.pdf

It's an expansion the the Federal gov poking it's nose where it doesn't belong. You know that old saying about he who pays the piper .......

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That's one of the biggest problems we have. Many conservatives don't oppose expanding the federal gov't as long as it benefits them, or their cause.

We've ALL got to stop this.

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Thanks. IMHO this shows how effectively we have been programmed to expect Federal government to 'fix' things in an emotional, not rational reaction.

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