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*Take executive action to provide incentives for schools to hire school resource officers: COPS Hiring Grants, which help police departments hire officers, can already be used by departments to fund school resource officers. This year, the Department of Justice will provide an incentive for police departments to hire these officers by providing a preference for grant applications that support school resource officers.

*Put up to 1,000 new school resource officers and school counselors on the job: The Administration is proposing a new Comprehensive School Safety program, which will help school districts hire staff and make other critical investments in school safety. The program will give $150 million to school districts and law enforcement agencies to hire school resource officers, school psychologists, social workers, and counselors. The Department of Justice will also develop a model for using school resource officers, including best practices on age-appropriate methods for working with students.

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This is what you guys and the NRA wanted! How is this evidence of him doing nothing?

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His girls have always attended private schools that hire armed guards for protection (besides the secret service they are absolutely entitled to have because of their father's position). Yet he thinks the rest of America's children should be in gun-free schools? Yes, that's elitist, and yes, President Obama is very hypocritical on the issue.

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If this poster had left off the first two sentences and begun with "Most murders involving guns" it would have been a more "rational" (yep, using an emotional word to make my rational argument) argument. But because it begins with calling my idea irrational, I'm less open to the rest of the argument, which once I FORCED myself to let my defensiveness go actually interested me and made me think.

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No, I do not think parents who want their children protected are delusional, but to think your kids have the same chance of being gunned down.....I don't think so.

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Given the number of school shootings, the number of shootings planned but foiled, vs. the number of attempts on the lives of any First Family, it could be argued that that our kids have a better chance of being gunned down.

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I swear, when I see myself quoted in purple, I'm scared to read the response.

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My whole point is basically that I don't think most of those who are so against guns and all they entail, think beyond their immediate small world...they for whatever reason, don't hink about the world we live in as a whole...

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Maybe it's time for us to understand that while we may have the right to bear arms, we should need to show a necessity to bear arms before a license is granted. And we really need to crack down on illegal weapons.

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That's one of the things that is really irrational in the gun control discussion. Not just the use of the totally meaningless term 'assault weapons'... I am going to assume that they just mean rifles when they say that. Most murders involving guns are committed with handguns - not rifles. In fact, more people are killed with blunt objects (hammers and the like) than with rifles. If those who support gun control were genuinely interested in stopping murders then they would focus far more on handguns.

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If this poster had left off the first two sentences and begun with "Most murders involving guns" it would have been a more "rational" (yep, using an emotional word to make my rational argument) argument. But because it begins with calling my idea irrational, I'm less open to the rest of the argument, which once I FORCED myself to let my defensiveness go actually interested me and made me think.

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Are you honestly saying that we shouldn't be able to speak out against the NRA?

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This past May, Frank Luntz, noted Republican pollster, conducted a survey of NRA members on gun safety. The results are encouraging, and highlight a large schism between NRA's leadership and the views of its members. According to the poll, NRA members support:

Requiring background checks for every gun purchase (74% NRA member support);
Requiring background checks on gun shop employees (79% NRA member support);
Prohibiting individuals on the terrorist watch list from purchasing firearms (71% NRA member support);
Requiring gun owners to report to police when their guns are lost or stolen (64% NRA member supports); and
Establishing minimum standards for concealed carry permits (63-75% NRA member support for each standard)

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...the online directory for Sidwell Friends lists 11 people as working in the Security Department. Five are listed as "special police officer," while two are listed as "on call special police officer," which presumably means they do not work full-time. The directory also lists two weekend shift supervisors, one security officer and the chief of security...

But we spoke to parents who said they had never seen a guard on campus with a weapon. And Ellis Turner, associate head of Sidwell Friends, told us emphatically: "Sidwell Friends security officers do not carry guns."

Sidwell Friends, by the way, has two distinct campuses, a lower school in Bethesda and a middle and upper schools in Washington. So given shift rotations and three different schools, it appears that the 11 "armed guards" is really just one or two unarmed guards per school at a time.

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Sidwell Friends does not have 11 armed guards. It does not have any armed guards at all.

Yesterday, Andrew Sullivan printed a letter from a grad of Sidwell Friends who wrote that they don't have armed guards because it is a Quaker School and the Quakers are pacifists.

I wondered if that was still the case, so I referred to my friend Google.

...the online directory for Sidwell Friends lists 11 people as working in the Security Department. Five are listed as "special police officer," while two are listed as "on call special police officer," which presumably means they do not work full-time. The directory also lists two weekend shift supervisors, one security officer and the chief of security...

But we spoke to parents who said they had never seen a guard on campus with a weapon. And Ellis Turner, associate head of Sidwell Friends, told us emphatically: "Sidwell Friends security officers do not carry guns."

Sidwell Friends, by the way, has two distinct campuses, a lower school in Bethesda and a middle and upper schools in Washington. So given shift rotations and three different schools, it appears that the 11 "armed guards" is really just one or two unarmed guards per school at a time.


Thank you, Washington Post.

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Again, I am not a member of the NRA. I do have friends and family who are members. I can't imagine how people think that attacking the 4.25 million fellow citizens like this because they are defending civil rights is not going to change anyone's mind. Rather, it is likely to harden people's positions because nobody responds well to bullying.

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It fucking disgusting is what it is and anyone who agrees with it is fucking disgusting too.

Kristina, what exactly are you referring to when you say "it"?

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