The Resident Joke Bite Me Diministration needs to start pumping Billions of $$$ into the whole nation’s school systems by installing cameras, metal detectors, security armed personnel in every school, college, deploy the National guard, ATF, FBI to help LEO patrol the streets, neighborhoods, businesses, shopping malls, etc… 24/7 for such a period of time until LAW AND ORDER IS RESTORED and RID of or tremendously reduced crime.
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“United States has committed more than $24.9 billion in security assistance to Ukraine”.
OK rough math here. Let’s just say we pay an armed security guard $75,000.00 a year. Now let’s say we take half of the money that was so easily available, $12,450,000,000 and applied it to the $75,000.00 security guards, we could pay 166,000 people.
Now given “There are 11,355 public and private schools in the U.S. that cover all grades K-12”, we could divide the 166,000 guards between the 11,355 schools and put 14 armed guards in each school. Seems pretty simple and easy to me.
I could go further and say, 2 guards 5 days a week, 8 hours per day. That would leave 4 guards full time to do surveillance, investigation, training, P.R. etc.
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I’ll add, if we take ALL 90,148 public schools in the US, given the above math, we could put 2 full time guards in each school full time. Take all of the Ukraine money and make that 4 full time guards in every public school in the US.
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Sounds about right, BUT NO, he’d rather take away our guns than to protect us and our children. The easy way out that still won’t stop crime.
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“My name is Joe Biden. I’m Dr. Jill Biden’s husband,” the 80-year-old president began his remarks at an East Room gathering of women-owned businesses.
“And I eat Jeni’s ice cream — chocolate chip. I came down because I heard there was chocolate chip ice cream,” he said.
“By the way, I have a whole refrigerator full upstairs,” Biden added at his only scheduled public appearance of the day. “You think I’m kidding? I’m not.”
The president then turned serious to address the shooting at the Covenant School, in which three students and three staff members were killed, calling it “sick” and “a family’s worst nightmare” before demanding once again that Congress pass a ban on assault weapons.”
Ice cream > Children
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Ditto. Even in jest.
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“Let us praise our first responders, 14 minutes, 14 minutes, I believe under fire, running to gunfire,” Cooper told reporters.
Big difference between Uvalde LEO response and Nashville LEO response.
Willing to bet cold, hard cash that this will come up on a campaign donation for Senator Blackburn. 
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Excellent point. I’d add that the $24.9 billion spent on the Ukraine’s defense did not detract from any other program because it was money Congress printed. So why not print another $24 billion out of thin air for school security?
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Agree. If the US is gonna keep bankrupting itself it might as well do it for an undeniably good cause.
But I will also add that we should be basing our decisions on facts instead of emotions. Despite news media’s wall to wall coverage these events are incredibly rare. Far more kids die in vehicle accidents on their way to and from school. 250K people die wrongful deaths in U.S. hospitals every year. I’m sure quite a few of those deaths are kids. Etc, etc…
We absolutely do need to up our security in schools. But there are a lot of other bigger problems we need to deal with as well. So it makes more sense to solve the school security problem relatively cheaply by properly arming and training a few staff members at each facility. Then we can use the rest of the Monopoly money to save far more lives.
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Spoiler alert for anyone new to the internet: there are a lot of very, very horrible people out there.
Over the past 24 hours, there has been no shortage of celebrity tweets blaming Tennessee for the Covenant School. The implicit (sometimes explicit) argument is that if we don’t give transgender people everything they want, we should expect more of this. (Can these so-called ‘progressive’ people not realize how dehumanizing this argument is to transgender people?)
There are even more people mocking the school, itself. It’s a private school, and even worse, a Christian school, so a lot of very sick people think that makes it fair game to laugh at dead children.
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Again with the horrible people on Twitter. This one is interesting in one way, though. He acknowledges that anti-2A gun laws infringe on rights. He’s not calling for “common sense gun laws” (whatever that means), he’s explicitly calling for infringements on Constitutional rights in the hope that it might prevent an occasional crime. It’s the dangerous old line “If only one life is saved, it’s worth it.”
I think most here understand how dangerous this line of reasoning goes, but if anyone here doesn’t, let us know.
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I think what he failed to acknowledge is the rights of the children to be protected and that nobody gives the shooter the right to break the law. He thinks sarcasm is the way to deal with it I guess. Like you say it is a dangerous way to deal with it.
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Want to talk about twisted thinking. Twitter is having to remove and ban accounts that are calling for a “Day of Rage” at the Supreme Court in D.C. to protest Trans Genocide. The Fock? A Trans person gets shot while committing a mass shootings against school children, and the takeaway is all Trans, Trans Allies need to have a day of rage with calls for violence. How the Fock does anybody come to conclusion?
Just search Google for Trans Day of Rage (Twitter).
Edit: I made a mistake. Some are calling for a day of vengeance.
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To be more accurate, it’s a Day of Vengeance.
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I just looked into this. According to the article I read the “Day of Vengeance” was being promoted before the Nashville shooting. So it probably was not in response to this incident but it possibly could have been a motivating factor for this the shooting?
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That is correct. Audrey must have jumped the gun. Pun intended.
Ironically, it’s scheduled on April Fools Day.
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If it makes them feel better about themselves and prevents them from committing act of criminal violence; I am all for it. I would be there with them if I thought people were going to commit acts of criminal violence against them.
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