The NRA came out with a proposal to post armed police officers at schools to prevent or at least minimize the next school shooting. The left promptly called the idea nuts.
Turns out, it wasn’t a new idea. President Bill Clinton proposed the same idea in April 2000. He implemented it, too, only to see Barack Obama cut the funding for it.
So, if you’re keeping score, the NRA agrees with a 12-year old Bill Clinton position on school security. The left just called a former Democrat president “crazy.”
Let’s get even more confusing. Clinton proposed more security for schools in the wake of the 1999 Columbine shooting. It turns out that Columbine High School did have an armed sheriff’s deputy on the scene the day of its tragic shooting spree. That deputy exchanged fire with one of the killers twice, drawing their attention away from killing unarmed teenagers. The deputy and his backup also helped organize the evacuation of students from the school. Though the deputy’s presence obviously did not stop the attack from happening, it likely did save many lives.
Let’s pile on even more confusion. The NRA today proposed protecting our children to a level similar to the way we protect our banks and many public buildings: With armed security. As we’ve established, this idea has been around for more than 12 years and was once proposed by a Democratic president. Many on the anti-gun left responded to today’s proposal not with a thoughtful rejoinder, but with calls to shoot Wayne LaPierre.
I’m not done yet. There is one more bit of confusing data to work with. The Columbine shooting occurred on April 20, 1999. The Assault Weapons Ban that the Democrats wish to revive in response to the Newtown killings ran from 1993 to 2004.





“Many on the anti-gun left responded to today’s proposal not with a thoughtful rejoinder, but with calls to shoot Wayne LaPierre.”
Of course they did. Because they’re the peace-loving ones. They react to a proposal to GUARD CHILDREN by threatening to murder the person making the proposal.
Hey, lefties — if you REALLY don’t want this country to break out into REAL violence, tone down YOUR rhetoric. One of the premiere lessons of the last century was “when someone threatens your life or your freedom, believe them” — and you’ve been threatening OUR lives and freedom quite a lot recently.
I have concluded that, although the World did not end today, it has for quite some time been going insane and may already be terminally so.
In support of the notion that insanity has become terminal, I learned yesterday from the Teleprompter of the United States about an Executive Decree that he (she or it) claims President Obama intends to issue if Vice President Biden’s final solution for gun control fails to meet his high standards.
Idiotic and lunatic as well of course, but that seems to have become mainstream.
I agree. Humanity seems to have periods of extreme irrationality and insanity. This usually resulted in wars at least once per generation, mainly because the psychopaths who tend to end up in power were less restrained. At the same time, their wars were an outlet for the psychos amongst the little people.
However, we’ve had a long stretch of comparative peace in the First World at least. That’s a lot of madness that has built up, not only in the halls of power but amongst the people as well. It does indeed look like it is about to boil over. The loonies are trying to throw away rules and traditions that took millenia of evolution to perfect in favor of what they believe will be a better system. Never mind that their model, Socialism, has never worked anywhere, because THEY are the ones who will get it right this time, just as all the others thought.
Anyway, I think you’re right about the insanity. Pity those of us who can see it coming can’t sit back somewhere apart and watch it all happen from safety.
Antarctica, perhaps? With a big supply of propane?
Sorry about being late to the party, but I invite you to seek out and read “Rites of Spring,” a fine monograph on the coming of the First World War. In a nutshell: The ruling classes of Europe arose from an era of peace, prosperity, and rapid progress to destroy millions of lives and lay their own societies in ruins because THEY WERE BORED.
May G-d have mercy on us all.
Except … that’s not what happened.
It wasn’t the whole of europe – it was germany. They saw a chance to increase their security interests (in a number of ways) and massively misjudged the response – particularly where britain would stand. By the time they’d realised their blunder, they were in a war with no way out. Once that machine started rolling, and they found themselves fighting the british commonwealth and france on one side, and russia on the other, they either had to win or face the consequences. It was a massive political screwup by people who thought they had their country’s interests at heart (whatever that meant at the beginning of the 20th century). It was also a lesson for britain – don’t equivocate.
Part of the reason the spring was wound so tight was the endless repetition of fighting among the ottomans, russia, the central powers, france (to a lesser extent) and britain. It just kept going around and around, with slightly different alliances forming each time and turkey losing that little bit more. The political archeology can be seen in the make-up of the balkans – a region cursed by being in the wrong place, between feuding powers (sort of like afghanistan, and I guess poland).
It wasn’t about anybody being bored.
Well, NOBODY thought our dear English cousins would side with the damn FROGS!
I mean: Germany was stuck with the Austrians, but who would ever figure the 1000 year animosity towards the French would all of a sudden, vanish?
I think it was Jackie Fisher and the young Mr. Churchill that wanted to try their hand with the Kriegsmarine that put it over the top, and enabled a stalemate.
For quite a long time, the Germans had attacked, or threatened to attack, the French over trivial things. It’s the Bismarck Strategy. Normally, the French acted like they were at war, but the treaties had all been written in advance. Once the British joined with the French, the Germans had their work cut out for them.
If the damn French had just surrendered right away, they would’ve lost a few soldiers and a county or two, honor being satisfied. Just like before.
It was a bunch of Frog generals who had never experienced real war who declined to surrender, because they managed to get the most professinal army in the world, the Brits, to help them out.
They both started WWI playing at soldiers, and ended it almost destroyed.
Such is the wisdom of politicians AND Generals.
This just proves that liberals are the kind who prefer emoting and screaming to facts and reasoning. They just get flung around by the winds of their easily manipulated emotions straight from one disaster to another and whine that things keep getting worse.
Yet they keep voting in puppeteers adept at jerking their emotional strings and passing all kinds of terrible legislation. Again they will whine that things are getting worse but they can’t understand why nor admit their part in it all.
You ALWAYS reward your pusher, friend.
They’re all endorphin addicts.
I know that none of you take the younger generations seriously, but I can tell you that Progressives younger than 30 DO want all opposition killed. I can’t tell you how many facebook posts I see from people I used to think were my friends calling for anyone who doesn’t fall in line with Progressive Orthodoxy to be killed.
Obviously, those people are not friends.
As a Japanese Naval officer of some repute once observed about the United States,”There is a rifle behind every blade of grass.”
I am not shocked by your report that many of the Twitter-pated boomer offpring indulge in the use of hyperbolic language, including threats to life an limb, towards those who do not totally surrender to the superiority of the #hipster world view.
I’m not actually worried about them, either, aside from the postential for one of them to maybe key my favorite grandpa-mobile. The cohort of that age group that has the stomach for combat has already joined the military and served on our side, and is not likely to become the operatives of 30 year olds who still live in their mother’s basement and post on Twitter.
#hipster paradise is coming to an end. We sill not die because they wish it so, and reality is going to demand payment from them soon. For the Twitter #valiant, there is only butterfly asses, alligator mouths and insufficient funds remaining.
Kitsune determines that all people who disagree with him politically under the age of 30 want their political opposition murdered. His source? Random Facebook posts.
Ladies and gentlemen, the mindset of your average PJ Media reader.
So rather than counterpose your own random Facebook posts of those under 30 who politically disagree with (those like) Kitsune but don’t want him (or those like him) murdered – perhaps to even argue against using terms like murder or kill irresponsibly, you go right to an ad hominem generalization based on a (random) sample size of one.
So, why exactly are you all referring to me as “he” and “him”, again?
I get that you want to mock me over being concerned over the hateful tendencies of the young, but even so…
Wait, Wait wait, so he makes a generalization about a group of people based on random Facebook posts, and you then make a generalization about another group of people based on his one post, and that somehow makes your conclusion more accurate how?
The fourth word in your post is “all.” Nothing in Kitsune’s post gives you the right to use that word. Kitsune could be accurate. Some people under the age of 30 could want to kill their political adversaries and if they are on Facebook, it could be easy to prove they are under 30 and liberal. But from random sampling of Facebook by Kitsune, and from He/She says, how does that give you the right to use the word “all?” Your are just being inaccurate or hyperbolic. Question is: are those on the right just as violent towards their enemies as the leftist socialists Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Kim Jung il, Pol Pot, Ho Chi Ming, Castro, Caecescu, Mussolini and the other leftists and their copycats who killed a billion people the last hundred years? Who are the comparable killers on the right? Lincoln, Washington, Churchill, T. Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Nixon, Thatcher, Reagan? Kitsune could be right. And in this case Holder and Obama in their hears could be siding more with the killer socialists on the left more than the Christian Conservatives on the right — more than would make the “All the World Needs is Love” Beatles comfortable, particularly John Lennon and Yoko Ono (not to mention “Give Peace a Chance”).
I can corroborate with Kitsune. Both my husband and I have had the same thing happen with people who have known us since high school and through college. One wished that we would “burn in hell” and another made some very violent pronouncements and when called on them excepted us with the sort of bigoted “but not you, your one of the few ‘good’ ones.”
These are people in the 30-40 demographic mind you.
Nothing the left does has anything to do with the claptrap that comes out of their mouth about it.
It’s all about, and only about, expanding their power.
That’s why it’s impossible to reason with them and facts and logic can’t possibly persuade them.
Actually, debating with them is a total waste of time. Republicans should just ignore them and continue to pass legislation that makes sense and then actually EXPLAIN why it makes sense to the American people. (and almost all of that legislation should undo prior dangerous laws. In other words almost every law ever passed.)
Precisely. Fen’s Law: “The Left doesn’t really believe in the things they lecture the rest of us about.”
Thank you. These facts will prove very useful to me the next time I’m verbally attacked by a Progressive because I’ve committed the sin of believing in the Second Amendment.
Within the confines of this blog one can only note that progressives are emotional wankers in need of their daily fix of hyperbole.
Which is consistent with the idea that all progressives everywhere are emotional wankers in need of their daily fix of hyperbole, though it does not by itself establish that idea to a certainty.
No, I think it is more of a stochastic “likely to be so” thing….
Likewise, the unions are irate that Scott Walker agrees with that conservative stalwart Franklin Delano Roosevelt about public sector unions.
I went to Federal Court in Manhattan. There were five armed federal marshals standing around the metal detectors in the lobby and every judge had two or three armed guards in his or her court room. (At whose cost?) Would there rulings run for or against the NRA on these issues of protecting our children? HMMM!
The problem with purring cops in schools is it will desensitize a entire generation to the idea of looking to government for all their needs. Why not just arm the teachers who want to be armed? Security is an individual concern.
“The problem with purring cops in schools is it will desensitize….”
How exactly? That soothing sound will be hypnotic or what? (lol)
No, it’s actually my feeling to. Because it overemphasizes the level of the threat, by several orders of magnitude.
If schools, why not buses, playgrounds, etc. etc.
Actually, Bush cut the funding for the “COPS in School” program in 2003, not Obama.
First name only, according to the Lord High Buck O’Fama always signifies Media Matters troll.
They can’t even be bothered to do their jobs well.
You know, the likely fallout of this is it makes folks of my ilk even more convinced they will never get a fair shake in this nation by the media, and if we are going to be like the rest of the world, why not take our talents somewhere else? I mean, in some ways I’m culturally a New Zealander or Englishman or Australian. Why not go there if we are just going to be like them, and mot be the America we were?
I see how Wayne LaPierre got treated. I know for a fact what I could expect if I was a public figure for some reason and this subject came up. I have no intention of helping a nation whose establishment treats me with contempt, and which gets away with it. Why would I?
There is only ONE way to eliminate public school violence.
It isn’t what you might think.
“Turns out, it wasn’t a new idea. President Bill Clinton proposed the same idea in April 2000. He implemented it, too, only to see Barack Obama cut the funding for it.”
Nice try.
The Clinton program (“COPS In Schools”) issued its last grant in 2005. It was about putting actual police into schools on a largely full-time basis for a range of purposes. Not just hiring some security guards. Clinton implemented it, bush killed it.
The thing that Obama cut was the “Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools” grant program. That had nothing to do with hiring guards or police in schools. They were one-off grants for specific projects, with total funding annually between 25-30 million. It was knocked off because nobody could say if it was actually effective (and some of the money was moved into other related federal programs). To quote the page on ed.gov:
“Grant funds may be used for the following activities: reviewing and revising emergency management plans, training school staff, conducting building and facilities audits, communicating emergency response policies to parents and guardians, implementing the National Incident Management System (NIMS), developing an infectious disease plan, developing or revising food defense plans, purchasing school safety equipment (to a limited extent), conducting drills and tabletop simulation exercises; and preparing and distributing copies of emergency management plans.”
Sorry, but I think you’ve overreached on this one.
Uh ohhhh.
We’d better ban Geely Sedans and Kitchen Knives.
Or…. Maybe not.
It’s not the tools, it’s the person. Bad people will always find a way to murder if there heart desires it, they will find a way regardless of banning the weapon of choice. Are we to ban pens and pencils? I’m sure someone has used these tools to murder before! Are they now called “Assault Pens and Pencils”? Come on!!!! Give your head a serious shake.
@DRUDGE_REPORT: Man distraught over daughter’s murder mows down 23 middle-school students… http://t.co/2KKIEg47
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