What do Al Hunt of Bloomberg News, David Gregory of “Meet the Press”, and President Obama have in common — besides their liberal politics?
They all send their kids to Sidwell Friends School.
With campuses in Washington, D.C. and Bethesda, Md., the highly selective private school is where the Clintons and the Gores sent their kids, along with Joe Biden’s grandchildren.
It’s also where the local 1 Percenters and the government-media elites who can afford to shell out about $32 grand a year to send their children to be indoctrinated — excuse me, educated — and to be safe.
Unlike parents across America who are worrying about how to protect their school kids in the wake of the tragic shootings in Newtown, Conn., Sidwell parents spend their days worry-free.
Their children are better protected than the printing presses at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. And it’s not because of the heavily armed Secret Service detail posted on campus to protect first-kids Sasha and Malia Obama.
It’s because Sidwell Friends — a Quaker school, by the way — is defended by guards with loaded guns. In addition to the Secret Service with its Uzis and large ammo clips, Sidwell has its own security staff of 11.
I didn’t hear President Obama mention Sidwell Friends’ solution to school safety on Wednesday when he announced his sweeping plans to reduce gun violence by banning assault-style weapons and high-capacity magazines, instituting tougher gun-registration laws, and taking steps to keep guns out of the hands of the mentally ill.
None of Obama’s measures would have prevented the slaughter of innocents in Connecticut, but that’s not the point. The point is pure politics, and the president and his crew want to take full advantage of the Newtown shootings to advance their anti-gun agenda.
At his White House media extravaganza, the president used lawmakers, law enforcement officials, and children as his props. The kids, drawn from across the U.S., had written letters to the president saying they were worried about gun violence and school safety. You can bet there were no Sidwell kids on stage with him.
While Washington’s grand-standers and anti-gun nuts prepare to fire their latest round of ineffective, politically correct, feel-good federal laws at law-abiding gun owners, at least six states are preparing new legislation that will allow teachers to carry guns into schools or require several teachers in the building to be armed.
Putting guards with guns in places that need to be protected from bad guys or crazies is not a radical idea. It’s perfectly sensible.
Politicians and celebrities use armed bodyguards all the time. We have armed guards in banks, jewelry stores, and malls. After 9/11 we armed airline pilots and armed federal marshals posing as passengers.
Only politicians and hysterical celebrity dummies like Piers Morgan can’t understand why making schools gun-free zones attracts mass-murders and reduces the chances that anyone with a gun will stop them to zero.
The president never thought of using Sidwell Friends as an example of how armed guards at schools can make them safer.
He was too busy trying to score points by attacking the NRA, dreaming up laws to further oppress law-abiding gun owners, and making fun of the people who know the Second Amendment isn’t about protecting duck hunters’ rights (it’s about the right of the people to protect themselves from their government.)
Meanwhile, here in Los Angeles, the Catholic grade school where my daughter teaches didn’t wait around for the president or Joe Biden to come up with complicated new laws to allegedly ensure the safety of their children.
The officials at my daughter’s school decided for themselves the best way to make their campus safer. Taking a cue from the smart folks who run the Sidwell Friends School, they did a simple, effective, and rational thing. They hired an armed guard.
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Hiring armed guards at schools is a great solution. So-called gun-control DOES NOT prevent these school shootings and I think Obozo knows it. He and Senator Frankenstein just want to take we law-abiding citizens’ right to “keep and bear arms,” right to self-defense away from us because they are tyrants and believe we the people shouldn’t have any rights. It’s tyranny at it’s best.
I’m willing to bet that NONE of those dupes (aka kids) took it upon themselves to write the supposed letters. Anyone else think that they were the result of an Obamabot teacher directing them to do it?
This is an extremely good article especially given the fact that Sidwell is a Friends school. I also wish someone on the left would remember that at the core of the tragedy in Newtown lie a single mom with an evil son who had no love or respect for her. The fact that she was the first one he shot proves that he had nothing but contempt for her. We need to stop glorifying single parenthood as well as put a strong emphases on the importance of men raising their sons. L. K. Williams: author of One Test One Identity onetestoneidentity.com
He had to shoot and kill her so he could get her assault weapons. Now IF she wasn’t a gun enthusiast and didn’t have the weapons there’d likely be about 26 people still alive.
What lies at the center of Newtown is a crazy person having easy access to a gun “enthusiasts” weapons. Maybe she loved her GUN more than her SON? Maybe it was George Bush’s fault because he let the assault weapons ban expire? That dead Mom would NOT have been able to legally buy that weapon in CT, that’s for sure!
Thank you Dubbya.
Have a nice day
Truthfully, “The Truthinesss”, it is obvious you are a good person but, please! Why continue to ‘blame’
Bush? Many people haven’t felt the ‘tension’ in the air until ’09. Think about it. Racial tensions became,
sadly, such a senseless focus. Skin color shouldn’t be the issue it is today. In God’s eyes, His emphasis
is on “The heart that beats UNDER the feathers.” God bless you…….and ALL of us!
He had to shoot her to get her guns?
Excellent point!……………and, THAT, hopefully, WILL register with those making their inept decisions in
assuming THEY know what ‘laws’ are viable!!! Thank you, “Deareg1″.
I wonder how much longer it will take for people, even stubborn Democrats, to realize this fact: Not one act of patriotism, dedication, or love of America been implemented by this president. Common sense should tell you that…..when implementing programs/laws that have been proven to be unsuccessful, harmful, ruinous, in other countries…….you would NOT force them into law in this country.
There are too many totally uninformed citizens…….hypnotized by the horrendous lies of the liberal media.
Those people are, of course, pleased with Barack Hussein Obama’s ‘stealing from hard-working people’…to
encourage laziness, ignorance, continued unemployment’s “undeserved” monetary excess, etc, (in most, but not all cases)…….to “enhance” his ludicrous popularity.
“We the people” are expecting truths from those excessive lies/liars.
Except killing Bin Laden…
Oh, I forgot, he’s living in a country club with Hitler and Elvis.
I’d suggest you’re brainwashed but that requires having a brain…
Have a swell day!
Obama said as part of the changes that schools can hire armed guards if they want to. What are you whining about?
Also, do you think that only the people you hate send their children to private schools?
Many high-profile people do that because of the gun-nuts that are out there. I wish you people would make your move and TRY to overthrow the Govt so they can lock you up and make the USA safer. Such paranoia, it’s nice to know you’re armed (and dangerous)
Ummmm well actually Obummer and the rest of the Libs don’t think our children are worth protecting. We are all just subjects and our children are certainly not important like theirs are. Simple as that.
OMFG…the sheer HYPOCRISY of this arrogant, unqualified piece of dogSH*T. That bast*rd sees it as okay to strap our children with a soon-to-be $25 TRILLION dollar debt, and yet, when children are killed in an awful tragedy like Newtown, (and I am absolutely NOT minimizing the situation, my heart and prayers go out to all the families) , that putz comes out with guns blazing (no pun intended…) WTF???
What is happening in our country today sounds remarkably like what happened in other dictatorships. They disarmed the people, after which dissenters were rounded up and summarily exterminated. “Ridiculous!” you say. Really? Any nation that allows the legal killing of millions of babies in their mothers’ wombs will have no compunction in killing millions of people who do not go along with the edicts of those in control. It happened in the former Soviet Union, in China, in Germany, in Cambodia, in Turkey and in other places as well. In fact, it happened 90 miles off the coast of Florida when Fidel Castro took over Cuba. Thousands of those who opposed Castro quietly disappeared. My wife’s brother-in-law was a Cuban physician whose name was on the “list”. He was quietly informed by an old friend and he and his wife, my sister-in-law, were able to escape to the US. Today, millions of Christians are being murdered simply because they are Christians! There is evil in the world, and it is clear that there is diabolical influence in the leadership of this nation! Bad things are coming, but no one wants to admit that kind of danger, that is, until it is too late!
Control is not very complicated. It consists of three steps, START-CHANGE-STOP. That’s it, yet we have this term “bad control,” which, I suppose, minimizes failure as one practices control? Where exactly does “good control” end and bad control (no control) start? Nope, you either control or you don’t, very simple. Gun control IS bad control. Libs (Libtardo-Rexus) want to change our 2nd and we must stop them. START…Semper Fi