Washington – Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer is proposing to give schools more money for security improvements and to make greater use of the National Guard.
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Boxer’s legislation is a response to the Connecticut school shooting that killed 20 children and six adults working at the school. It would boost a grants program from $30 million annually to $50 million. The grants pay for such things as metal detectors.
Governors are already free to call in National Guard members for security at borders and airports, but a second Boxer bill would give them the financial incentive to do so for schools. Under her bill, the federal government would reimburse states for the expense, perhaps with one or two National Guard members supplementing work by a school’s assigned police officer.
dont understand. if NG will be armed, then just arm the safety agents who are already in place.
To #2 - You just don’t get it! Very few schools in the USA have armed security guards. Utilizing the National Guard, would ensure that ALL schools have this additional security.
Great idea. Now we’ll have guys with heavy duty assualt weapons allowed to freely come into schools. Most National Guard members are men and women of the highest order. But all we need is gun happy & gun crazy member to do the same that this nutj job Lanza did.
To #3- Tell me, what is there to think about? Every school in EY has two armed security guards; hence, one never reads about shootings at schools in EY, which has this protection. It is time for every elementary, middle, and high school in the USA, plus every parochial school to also have this protection. If this violence was stopped on commercial aircraft, it can be stopped in schools.
To #6 -Heshy-I don’t like some of your phraseology (i.e. “What a bunch of idiots”). There are people such as yourself on this board, who don’t show any derech eretz to other people, whom they may disagree with. Mr. Solomon had a very good point, about armed protection in public and parochial schools. In the near future, this may also be necessary in all public shopping malls, as is the case, in EY.