Eclectablog is one of my favorites. I don’t know the writer, but he or she is super smart and witty, which is a great combination.
Here is a post explaining that an armed guard in every school (132,000 schools of all kinds) would cost something north of $10 billion.
That’s lot of moola-boola on new weaponry.
It also means another 132,000 guns in the schools.
Eclectablog refers to this as “gun porn.”
Be sure to open this link. You need a good laugh today.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Right, shocking that the NRA’s solution would involve selling a huge number of guns. That’s not playing defense, that’s aggressively using this massacre as an opportunity to expand the domestic gun market.
It is a balance of power move.
I forget the name of the IL politician (you can google the story), but he repeatedly voted against guns. 3 thugs then thought he was unarmed in his rural home and knocked down his door. The politician shot 2 of them.
That incident would never have happened if he had not advertised that he was not in favor of guns.
I don’t know about all schools, but I worked at several where there seemed to always be several armed police. We just assumed they were there to protect us from the students.
Schools are prime targets because they are gun free zones. Even the nut jobs see an opportunity.
I really feel that we could end obesity by banning the fork. lol
That was very amusing, I’ve only heard the ban the fork “analogy” 2,000 times. Jared Loughner was not in a gun free zone, there were several people in the area with conceal carry weapons, one of them almost shot the wrong person. There was an armed guard at Columbine who actually got off a shot(s) at one of the teens. The other armed guard was nearby but not at the right place at the right time. The Fort Hood shooter was not in a gun free zone, the MPs do carry weapons. Virginia Tech had its own police force and was not that far from the regular police. A suicidal maniac doesn’t care if he’s attacking in a gunful zone or a gunfree zone.
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Diane,
Please consider posting. A message from the mother of Ana Marquez Green, a heartbreaking message:
“I have a Christmas wish,” she wrote.
“I want to live in a better America — one where our leaders are working collaboratively for the good of the people and the protection of children. Please! No more! Ya basta!.”
She then pays tribute to her daughter.
“Sweet Ana, I know our healing as a family will come only from our heavenly Father. I know this is your best Christmas yet – at home with our Lord and Saviour. As your mom I just wish we could have had a few more to celebrate here on earth. You died so needlessly.
“For Christmas I bought you a Kindle Fire HD the night before you died. My Christmas promise to you now is to continue to love the Lord with all my heart, mind and strength and to do whatever I can to make sure more kids can be safe … and to send out the message that “love wins”. I still sleep with your special blanket, most nights in your bed.”
Marguez-Greene then offers some advice to people reading her post.
“Hug your loved ones tight! Joyous Christmas Season and a Blessed New Year to all!”
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/12/26/ana-marquez-greene-winnipeg-mom-facebook-message_n_2367272.html
Diane, if this is an example of how you evaluate issues and promulgate propaganda, I’m going to have to reconsider your views on education.
You well know how irritating it is to an educator to have politicians and parents telling us what to do (because they’ve all spent time in school), right? Have you considered how irritating it is to a firearms trained former cop and retired teacher to have an educator comment on guns, self-defense, the second amendment when his or her experience is limited to what they read in the papers?
Feeling a bit defensive Mr. O’Donnell? I believe your judgments belong on the eclectablog page. And yes, $10 billion dollars is a lot of money.
Nah, not defensive. Just offended. Electablog engaged in reductio ad absurdam to assert that defending schools would be prohibitively expensive. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum
Gun laws won’t protect children. The police aren’t involved until after the fact. Don’t you think there is another alternative to payingfor armed protection?
Is it as irritating as it is to an attorney to have a firearms trained former cop and retired teacher comment on the second amendment?
One doesn’t have to be a lawyer to understand the 2nd amendment. It’s meaning is perfectly clear to anyone who has taken 8th grade Civics.
I would recommend continuing your studies beyond the 8th grade.
Ha! You made me laugh!
Thank you. I needed that.
Small minds are easily amused, Linda, by clowns like flerper.
Would it teach me something about the 2nd amendment that I don’t already know? I presume you have progressed in your schooling up through the grades. Too bad your education stopped way before your terminal degree.
Never fear…I taught US history. 🙂 Nothing irritating here.