Cops in schools: Top Democrats were for it before they were against it
Several of those who are now critical of the NRA’s plan expressed their support for Clinton’s program and benefited from it. Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco district was one of the first to receive funding through the program: $3.25 million for 26 new police officers, to be exact. As a whole, California, also home of Dianne Feinstein, received $5.6 million in grants from the COPS in Schools program in 1999 alone.
Touting the grants set to be distributed to several New York state school districts in 2004, Senator Chuck Schumer acknowledged that “we live in a different world now than we did 20, 30, or even three years ago” and said that the new realities are forcing parents to think constantly about the safety of their children. “Getting more police officers on school grounds will go a long way toward making sure our kids stay out of harm’s way,” he said. Schumer assailed the Bush administration’s 2005 budget for doing away with the COPS in Schools program and, in doing so, attested to its efficacy. “Thanks to COPS, people feel safer with their children on the streets today,” he said in a press release in May 2004. “But now the Administration has proposed ending the program and taking away funding to hire thousands of police officers just when they are needed most. Why the Administration would want to rip a hole in that sense of security by slashing COPS funding is beyond me.”
Even one of the leading gun-control advocates in Congress, New York congresswoman and anti-gun activist Carolyn McCarthy, had kind words for the COPS in Schools program.
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That’s exactly right. Even MoveOn(dot)Org was for it.
But our side, for the most part, is too timid or too stupid to point this out.
I am really, really sick of hitching my wagon to the Stupid Party.
petefrt on December 31, 2012 at 7:58 PM
It isn’t about the children.
It is about controlling the citizenry by eventually eliminating their ability to possess firearms.
Training them to be dependent on government.
And going down the road well traveled before.
ProfShadow on December 31, 2012 at 7:59 PM
The children are the last thing it’s about.
petefrt on December 31, 2012 at 8:06 PM
I would rather not condition children to accept living in a police state with uniformed officers hovering over them, (as Schumer desires), I would rather have some of the teachers discreetly carry concealed guns. And if the government won’t allow some children to be protected by guns then the schools that Obama and the rest of them send their children to should be disarmed as well. Equal protection under the law.
FloatingRock on December 31, 2012 at 8:17 PM
Gotta love Democrats, if their lips are movin’…..
Tim Zank on December 31, 2012 at 8:18 PM
Doesn’t matter who suggested the idea, it’s just not a good idea.
Why not solid, bullet – proof doors on all classrooms that can be locked by the teacher with the push of a button?
No training of teachers to have guns, you’re not introducing guns directly in the classrooms and solves the problem of teachers not having any recourse in a situation like this.
ckoeber on December 31, 2012 at 9:30 PM
I have come to realize that Democrats just go in the opposite direction of what Republicans are for. No matter what it is they are against it just because Republicans are for it. This story is a perfect example. Another example is the tax plan Speaker Boehner proposed was the same as Nancy Pelosi’s just a few months earlier but she wanted nothing to do with it after it was suggested by a Republican.
So knowing this to be the truth, the Republicans should just start using Jedi Mind tricks on the idiot Dems. Republicans should draw up bills banning all guns, They should draw up a bill expanding abortion etc. Democrats will not want to cooperate and basic call for the opposite.
You have to use their idiocy against them.
The Notorious G.O.P on December 31, 2012 at 9:31 PM
Kabuki Theater for Dem rubes.
No guns for thee, just for me!
If schools can afford an undercover guard or two, let them see if it works.
Unless the armed agent remained incognito, though, the perp would just target them first.
profitsbeard on December 31, 2012 at 10:02 PM
Obama’s daughter’s school has 11 armed guards.
claudius on December 31, 2012 at 11:54 PM
The best way would be to have cameras at all unsecured locations and to train the best qualified members of the faculty how to use firearms in hostile situations. They would be trained and reviewed over summer and winter breaks with pay and be required monthly range time.
All teachers would be taught how to secure their students/classrooms.
The qualified teachers and administrators would have a secure weapons locker inside their classrooms/offices.
If the guard monitor sees something fishy, the school goes into lockdown, all teachers get a page on their cell, the monitor room sends a video feed to their phones, and a general alarm sounds.
The monitor feed would also go to the local respondents.
If there weren’t enough teachers for these security measures, then armed police would be assigned.
Obviously, every crazy notion hatched inside the rotting mind of criminals cannot be guarded against.
Remember when the the bus full of children was buried inside the cornfield?
kregg on January 1, 2013 at 7:43 AM