A question about the cops in schools idea.

...sickens me!

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some kind of a good idea, it would take money directly away from the clasrooms, where it's desperately needed.

No wonder the right likes the idea!

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In the last 2 years stats, 2009-2011, about four educators lost their jobs per gun store.

58,000 gun shops
100,000 public schools
220,000 teachers fired
60,000,000 students
270,000,000 guns
300,000,000 people

What would it cost to put a teacher in every gun store?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022052328

...an American badge of shame. Thank you, though.

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when they go to airports and have armed guards all over the place, get frisked, walk through metal detectors. They are not delicate flowers. That have probably watched more violence on TV than I have. They walk in the mall and see Security all the time.

The elementary schools need protection...and I don't mean teachers packing heat. Teachers teach. Principals Principal. Security Guards protect. Kids love the Crossing Guards, and know they are there to protect them. At least 2 per elementary school...retired vets, military, police ... like the Crossing Guards. Except they roam the perimeter of the school all day, get to know the kids, and the kids feel safer. So do the Teachers and the Principal. They get baked a special cupcake for each kid's birthday. They also wander through the cafeteria just checking up as well as the playground, but always with focus on places of entry. The return of the Good Neighborhood Cop. Kids will love it...especially elementary kids cause there aren't many men in the school.

Charge it to the NRA. If there are 300,000,000 guns out there, we charge every single one of them a new School Tax... direct, just like property tax. Say $10 per registered gun within the first month. $20 per registered gun within 2 months, and $50 per gun after 3 months. Or it could be by size or magazine of whatever...but a New Registration. The longer it takes, the higher the new registration fee will be and it will set the fee for the next two years.

Bullets are priced up by a factor of 5. Rationed...recorded.

That gives us billions of dollars for new jobs, good jobs, important jobs and mostly fun jobs because the biggest part of the time they'll be hanging with the kids at recess while patrolling. Not perfect, but the whole community now knows their kids are protected as well as any wannabe psychotic who might think 2 or 3 times before playing Rambo.

...but armed with pepper spray, nightsticks/truncheons & possibly tasers. Guns? Hell no!

How about magnetized entry locks that a visitor has to be recognized first and buzzed in?

When people fire a gun and someone is actually firing back, they may very well miss. When they do miss, we have NO IDEA what (or WHO) that bullet will hit. I, unlike the NRA, am not willing to gamble my son's life on that. When I was a un owner (up until about 15 years ago) I would go to a firing range with my .38 revolver and put 50+ rounds into a target about the size of a paper plate at 25 yards. Thank God I was never in a position of being in a firefight, but I suspect that in that situation I'd have shot my own dickoff before I hit the other person.

While you portray a very positive picture, I will not buy into the whole NRA default notion that the way to solve any gun problem is to throw more guns at the situation.

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called him "..a desprate, cornered Rat.."

O'Donnell does have a wonderful way with words.

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What a fucked up equation!

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Moreover, even if it were workable, affordable, and completely prevented these wholesale slaughters of our children while in school, the gun psychos would simple find another soft target to rain their death wrath upon. More guns is the opposite of a solution, it IS the problem.

...the NRA's default solution to any gun related problem or tragedy being to throw more guns at the situation. Yuck!

My wife and I are not willing to put our son's safety into the hands of an NRA plan. We suspect that millions of other Americans feel the same way, too.

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It's a very powerful number!

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My wife was a school teacher in VA. I never heard anything negative about the program and my impression is that it was an overall plus.
A Google search turns up information on both states' programs.

...just the guards with GUNS.

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