{"id":16924,"date":"2012-12-31T10:43:35","date_gmt":"2012-12-31T15:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=16924"},"modified":"2012-12-31T10:43:35","modified_gmt":"2012-12-31T15:43:35","slug":"the-problem-with-the-internet-if-you-are-a-politician-is-that-everything-you-have-said-or-done-in-the-past-is-easily-accessed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=16924","title":{"rendered":"The Problem With The Internet (If You Are A Politician) Is That Everything You Have Said Or Done In The Past Is Easily Accessed"},"content":{"rendered":"

National Review Online<\/a> posted an article today about some inconvenient history that seems to have been overlooked in the current debate about gun control. NRA<\/a> executive vice president Wayne LaPierre<\/a> was denounced, ridiculed, and called all sorts of names for suggesting that we put policemen in our schools. Although his statement, “The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun,\u201d makes sense, he was ridiculed for stating the obvious.<\/p>\n

Oddly enough, President Clinton<\/a> did put policemen in our schools as a response to the April 1999 shooting at Columbine High School<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The article lists some of the supporters of President Clinton’s program to put guns in the school:<\/p>\n

Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi\u2019s San Francisco district was one of the first to receive funding<\/a>\u00a0through the program: $3.25 million for 26 new police officers<\/a>, to be exact. As a whole, California, also home of Dianne Feinstein<\/a>, received $5.6 million in grants from the COPS<\/a> in Schools program in 1999 alone.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Touting<\/a> the grants set to be distributed to several New York state<\/a> school districts in 2004, Senator Chuck Schumer<\/a> acknowledged that \u201cwe live in a different world now than we did 20, 30, or even three years ago\u201d and said that the new realities are forcing parents to think constantly about the safety of their children. \u201cGetting more police officers on school grounds will go a long way toward making sure our kids stay out of harm\u2019s way,\u201d he said. Schumer assailed the Bush administration\u2019s 2005 budget for doing away with the COPS in Schools program and, in doing so, attested to its efficacy. \u201cThanks to COPS, people feel safer with their children on the streets today,\u201d he said in a press release in May 2004. \u201cBut 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.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

It’s amazing to me that the history of guns in our schools is being overlooked in the current effort to take guns away from private citizens.<\/p>\n

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