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Sorry if this has already been posted; I looked but didn't see any other threads.
Christie: NRA ad with Obama daughters ?reprehensible? | The Ticket - Yahoo! News
Wrong - it is not reprehensible. But then, this is what I would expect from Christie given the laws he has helped put in place in New Jersey. It points out the most salient fact of this debate: the power brokers who are telling the rest of the nation that they must be content to wait 20 minutes or more for police to arrive and respond to an emergency call are themselves hidden behind phalanxes of armed guards who can respond instantly to an emergency. Their families are accorded protection that the average person will never be able to afford. The families of the rich, famous, and politically powerful enroll their children in schools guarded by armed guards, yet they scoff when the same measures are proposed for OUR children. These people are using the children of others to further their own political agendas, yet it is wrong to point to their children to highlight the mind boggling hypocrisy that characterizes policy makers? Sorry, but when they begin trotting the children of others out to make a point, all bets are off. They have no right to say, Yes, I can use YOUR children to make a point - but don't look at mine.
These are the ones telling the rest of us what measures we may take to protect our families and ourselves; they are supposedly EXAMPLES to the rest of the nation. The example THEY have established is that providing guards for their children who have the ability to use deadly force if necessary is a good and desirable thing. If it's good for them, then it's good for the rest of us as well. And if we can't afford to have our children in schools where such security measures are available, then they have no right to tell the rest of us that our faculty and staff members who have the desire and the ability to provide that protection may not do so. And for the record, Governor, this has nothing to do with a SS detail. It has everything to do with a school that already employs and deploys a dozen armed guards to protect the children of the "elite" - and has done so for years.
Gov. Christie, you are wrong on so many levels. You will never have my vote.
BTW, I wonder if it has occurred to anyone yet that these armed schools aren't the ones being hit by mass shooters. Maybe there's something to the idea of armed guards after all. Ya think?
Christie: NRA ad with Obama daughters ?reprehensible? | The Ticket - Yahoo! News
Wrong - it is not reprehensible. But then, this is what I would expect from Christie given the laws he has helped put in place in New Jersey. It points out the most salient fact of this debate: the power brokers who are telling the rest of the nation that they must be content to wait 20 minutes or more for police to arrive and respond to an emergency call are themselves hidden behind phalanxes of armed guards who can respond instantly to an emergency. Their families are accorded protection that the average person will never be able to afford. The families of the rich, famous, and politically powerful enroll their children in schools guarded by armed guards, yet they scoff when the same measures are proposed for OUR children. These people are using the children of others to further their own political agendas, yet it is wrong to point to their children to highlight the mind boggling hypocrisy that characterizes policy makers? Sorry, but when they begin trotting the children of others out to make a point, all bets are off. They have no right to say, Yes, I can use YOUR children to make a point - but don't look at mine.
These are the ones telling the rest of us what measures we may take to protect our families and ourselves; they are supposedly EXAMPLES to the rest of the nation. The example THEY have established is that providing guards for their children who have the ability to use deadly force if necessary is a good and desirable thing. If it's good for them, then it's good for the rest of us as well. And if we can't afford to have our children in schools where such security measures are available, then they have no right to tell the rest of us that our faculty and staff members who have the desire and the ability to provide that protection may not do so. And for the record, Governor, this has nothing to do with a SS detail. It has everything to do with a school that already employs and deploys a dozen armed guards to protect the children of the "elite" - and has done so for years.
Gov. Christie, you are wrong on so many levels. You will never have my vote.
BTW, I wonder if it has occurred to anyone yet that these armed schools aren't the ones being hit by mass shooters. Maybe there's something to the idea of armed guards after all. Ya think?
