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   Ms. Ima said, 5 months ago

   Yep, the liberal word of the day.
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   Justice22 said, 5 months ago

   @Ms. Ima

   Sooo, The liberals are wanting guards in all of the schools so they can add to our tax burden? I always thought the NRA was a democrat organization.
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   ghostkeeper said, 5 months ago

   Seriously, the NRA will have to be shot. Stupidity like that can’t be reasoned with, it can only be dealt with.
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   Clark Kent said, 5 months ago

   That’s not a mouth, that’s a toilet bowl.
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   Fourcrows said, 5 months ago

   Interesting that this toon come from a conservative cartoonist. It kind of shows the NRA is getting even further away from the people it claims to represent.
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   The Wolf In Your Midst said, 5 months ago

   So we’ll be seeing an excise tax on firearms and ammunition purchases in order to fund this? Or does Mr. LaPierre think that armed guards will work for free just to protect the children?
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   ansonia said, 5 months ago

   @ghostkeeper

   Guns are here to stay. The Supreme Court has ruled.
   With that in mind, what is your workable solution.
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   Radish said, 5 months ago

   Just shows how out of touch with reality the far right gun nuts are.
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   lonecat said, 5 months ago

   @ansonia

   I agree. I disagree with the Court’s interpretation, but hey, they are the Court and I’m not. I do believe that the relevant decisions do allow some kinds of gun control, and I’m all in favor. But as I’ve said elsewhere, I’ve given up on gun control — (1) there are too many guns in circulation now (2) there is just a crazy aspect to US society, and that needs to be controlled. I think one thing we need is a serious grass-roots movement against guns and gun-violence — the equivalent of Mothers Against Drunk Driving. I’m sure there are other ideas we should consider.
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    Bruce4671 said, 5 months ago

    @Radish

    So I suppose that the wealthy that send their kids to private schools who have private security that is armed on the premises are out of touch with reality as well?
    
    I suppose that government officials and wealthy private citizens that surround themselves with armed guards are also out of touch with reality?
    
    And how about our President? His children go to Sidwell Friends School that has 11 armed
    guards on staff. No, not the secret service guards for his kids – though they are there as well – but hired security for the children.
    
    But somehow when someone suggest that we may want to add security for all children at schools everywhere he is a crazy gun nut.
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    Rickapolis said, 5 months ago

    The NRA is such an embarrassment it’s hard to believe that they aren’t intentionally being foolish. I see them going the way of the KKK, being shunned and ignored, and seen in a shameful light by the thinking members of society..
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    trm said, 5 months ago

    @Radish

    Funny that the infamous far-right extremist, Bill Clinton, proposed a ‘Cops In School’ program to protect kids, back in 1998. http://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/01/nyregion/schools-hey-kids-please-say-hello-to-officer-mentor.html
    Yep, that far right gun nut Bill Clinton sure is out of touch with reality.
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    Robert Landers said, 5 months ago

    @trm

    So, there are just about 125,000 public schools in America, Let us say that the average pay of even one armed guard is $40,000 per year. That comes to an addition of some $5 billion dollars for the school systems of this country (and that is for only one guard per school). If you were to have one guard per classroom (as recommended by the NRA) then I would say that would raise the amount to at least some $100 billion dollars.

    And many of these systems are struggling to find the funds for such traditional items as school books.

    So, just where is all of this additional funding supposed to come from anyway?

    After all, it is a conservative mantra that there be no such increases in taxes!!
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    trm said, 5 months ago

    @Robert Landers

    Way to dodge the point. Radish claimed that only “far right gun nuts” believed that armed cops in school would keep kids safer. I pointed out that Bill Clinton proposed the same idea in 1998, and suggested that Radish’s opinions were in fact the ones “out of touch with reality.”
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    Stipple said, 5 months ago

    @trm

    “dodge the point”?
    .
    It has to be paid for, pretty big point.
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