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….

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.

Rebar on December 24, 2012 at 1:26 PM

Like minds it seems?
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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.