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ThoughtCriminal

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5. We used to have a police officer assigned to our high school
Mon Dec 17, 2012, 03:08 PM
Dec 2012

The district paid the city. But after the state legislature (super-majority GOP) made extreme cuts in the budget, that was one of the things they could no longer afford.

Guns in the home have been statistically proven to be dangerous for children. Schools would be even worse.

Any gun that is secure from the children is going to be useless if a body-armored psychopath enters the room and starts shooting. As for teachers in other classrooms, in most cases they are going to be better off spending the critical seconds locking and barricading the door rather than trying to retrieve a locked up gun and joining the shootout.

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