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David Gregory more of a fan of armed security in schools than thought

The NBC host would go on the rest of the segment to suggest that armed guards might not be effective in preventing mass murders at school. Which is perhaps an interesting theoretical argument.

But when it comes to Gregory’s own kids, however, they are secured every school day by armed guards.

The Gregory children go to school with the children of President Barack Obama, according to the Washington Post. That school is the co-ed Quaker school Sidwell Friends.

According to a scan of the school’s online faculty-staff directory, Sidwell has a security department made up of at least 11 people. Many of those are police officers, who are presumably armed.

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Gregory is a lyn’ hypocritcal hack.

Just like 90% of the LSM.

davidk on December 24, 2012 at 1:02 PM

David Gregory more of a fan of armed security in schools than thought

No, just another lefty hypocrite.

cozmo on December 24, 2012 at 1:03 PM

Well, he is gay you know.

Which means the difference between what he says he supports and what he actually does is beyond reproach.

Why is Gregory’s children being protected by armed guards at school ok, but not for your kids?

His kids are better than yours.

BobMbx on December 24, 2012 at 1:04 PM

He is lawbreaker, too. He violated DC’s magazine law. arrest him. He is a white male.

davidk on December 24, 2012 at 1:04 PM

I asked him on Twitter yesterday if he was going to ask his children’s school to remove the armed security. No response. Weird.

ktrich on December 24, 2012 at 1:04 PM

Most major media personalities enjoy private security themselves. I suspect that many of them negotiate it into their employment contracts so that they don’t even have to foot the bill.

Carry firearms is like having to drive yourself around. If you’re honest you’d rather have someone do both for you, personally. Alas, most people lack the means to make that a reality so they have to do it themselves.

CorporatePiggy on December 24, 2012 at 1:05 PM

Most people are hypocrites – none as blatant as the TV/media hacks and especially Obama.

Luxury and protection for me, but not for thee.

Your kids don’t count.

We is Louis XVs and Madames de Pompadour.

Schadenfreude on December 24, 2012 at 1:08 PM

He is lawbreaker, too. He violated DC’s magazine law. arrest him. He is a white male.

davidk on December 24, 2012 at 1:04 PM

Thank God the story wasn’t about raped children. What would he done for show and tell?

BobMbx on December 24, 2012 at 1:13 PM

Typical Liberal: Do as I say… Not as I do. My favorite thing to do to my Liberal friends is to check out their Facebook profiles. You won’t find any picture of them living the “Liberal” life style. Best part is when you look at their list of friends and notice they are usually 97% white. BIG HYPOCRITES

brewcrew67 on December 24, 2012 at 1:16 PM

Carry firearms is like having to drive yourself around. If you’re honest you’d rather have someone do both for you, personally. Alas, most people lack the means to make that a reality so they have to do it themselves.

CorporatePiggy on December 24, 2012 at 1:05 PM

Honestly, if I had the means–enough money where I wouldn’t have to ask the price–I would still personally take care of my own security and drive my own ride.

And I would still ask the price, too.

davidk on December 24, 2012 at 1:20 PM

‘You won’t take my guns’: Gun owners vow to defend their right to bear arms
http://twitchy.com/2012/12/23/you-wont-take-my-guns-gun-owners-vow-to-defend-their-right-to-bear-arms/

While the diminishing of the 2nd Amendment continues, gun owners are not going to remain silent.

@BarackObama first you take all my money and now you want to take my guns? #dictator—
Ryan Fehling (@RyanFehling) December 23, 2012

My dad is saying if they knock on our door&try to take away our guns they better bring backup cause he ain’t going down easy—
Sunshinefox7 (@stevenala) December 23, 2012

The average, law-abiding gun owner is tired of the endless assault on one of America’s first freedoms.

Southern by choice22 on December 24, 2012 at 1:21 PM

Southern by choice22 on December 24, 2012 at 1:21 PM

They know where everyone is, too.

There is no right to privacy in the new fascist America.

Rebar on December 24, 2012 at 1:26 PM

Curious how the NRA guy could go on TV and not have this information handy to beat Gregory with. He had to know the question was coming.

lorien1973 on December 24, 2012 at 1:26 PM

On the issue of guns, it seems a ny newspaper has posted the names and addresses of all hand gun owners in certain areas!

http://nation.foxnews.com/gun-permit-holders/2012/12/24/ny-newspaper-publishes-names-and-addresses-gun-permit-holders
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letget on December 24, 2012 at 1:26 PM

The Gregory doctrine
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/12/the-gregory-doctrine.php

Glenn Reynolds is still awaiting answers from gun-control advocates Rupert Murdoch and Michael Bloomberg about the guns used by their security details in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook massacre. The silence is telling, for the political and media hysteria whipped up in the wake of the killings is mixed with equal parts bad faith and magical thinking. A healthy dollop of misinformation is overlaid on the bad faith. The magical thinking operates in its own reality without any need of the misinformation to support it.

Yesterday Meet the Press’s insufferable David Gregory made his own contribution to the mix, mocking NRA president Wayne LaPierre for proposing that armed guards protect every school in America.

But when it comes to Gregory’s own kids, however, they are secured every school day by armed guards.

According to a scan of the school’s online faculty-staff directory, Sidwell has a security department made up of at least 11 people. Many of those are police officers, who are presumably armed.

Southern by choice22 on December 24, 2012 at 1:27 PM

Rebar on December 24, 2012 at 1:26 PM

Like minds it seems?
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letget on December 24, 2012 at 1:28 PM

You Go First
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2971869/posts

Obama, though, offered specific proposals only in reference to the latter. He called on Congress to pass “common-sense legislation,” which he said should include an assault-weapons ban and a ban on high-capacity magazines.

Ok, Mr. Obama. You go first. Issue an executive order removing military-style weapons and high-capacity magazines from the Secret Service agents guarding you.

Instead of offering solutions to a problem they have helped create, they offered a paranoid, dystopian vision of a more dangerous and violent America where everyone is armed and no place is safe,” Mayor Bloomberg said.

Ok, Doomberg, you go first. Let your armed security detail go.

But you would concede that, as good as an idea as you think this is, it may not work. Because there have been cases where armed guards have not prevented this kind of massacre, this kind of carnage. I want you would concede that point, wouldn’t you?

Ok, Gregory, you go first. Publicly call for Sidwell Friends school, where you send your own kids, to lay off the 11-person security detail, as they MIGHT not be able to stop the shooting.

It’s all about security for me and not for THEE. The real message of the elites is their lives are worth defending. Not ours.

Colbyjack on December 24, 2012 at 1:47 PM

An armed Quaker school? That’s pretty funny on its own.

ThePrimordialOrderedPair on December 24, 2012 at 2:02 PM

hypocrite indeed

cmsinaz on December 24, 2012 at 2:11 PM

While MSM in ["hypocrites","socialists","Obama sycophants","gun grabbers"]:
…I_Do_not_watch()

BoxHead1 on December 24, 2012 at 2:12 PM

Heard a guy on the radio say that of course the findings of any blue ribbon panel by Biden is going to step all over our constitutional rights – the 2nd Amendment and the right to privacy of the mentally ill. The issue that most all people agree on – increased school security, they will never touch, since the real plan is for the left to control people.

Blake on December 24, 2012 at 2:14 PM

Hmmm…

apostic on December 24, 2012 at 2:56 PM

The NBC host would go on the rest of the segment to suggest that armed guards might not be effective in preventing mass murders at school.

And his reasoning was silly, arguing that because it didn’t work at Columbine, it wouldn’t work anywhere. By that logic, we may as well get rid of all police. And seat belts. And bicycle helmets. And on and on and on….

xblade on December 24, 2012 at 3:19 PM