I believed in the power of doing something(TM) long before the inagural post to this blog. Given another mass shooting at a school, it's once again an opportune time to push something that won't hurt our constitutional rights as fast as we possibly can. What to do?
It's obvious this time. SRO's work. An SRO got the job done in Dixon, IL a few days ago. SROs have done the job in the past. There are plenty of reasons to believe an SRO or another good guy with a gun will successfully get the job done in the future.
I am ready to get behind a school security spending bill. I hardly care what's in it as long as it doesn't compromise our rights. It does need to provide cover to prevent the serious attempt at a gun grab that's mere hours away. Federal funding for SROs is a possibility.
There are about 98,271 schools in the United States. Assuming it costs about $100,000 a year to pay, equip, train, etc. an average law enforcement officer, we could place an officer in every school for about $9.8 billion. That's about 1.5% of the DoD budget proposed for 2019 earlier this year. Certainly Democrats can get behind spending a mere 1.5% of the DoD's budget to create 98,271 strong union jobs to protect the children?
If they poison it with a gun grab or refuse to play ball, there is plenty there to make hay with.
Not willing to go that far? Fine, provide a smaller pool of funding for security spending as districts see fit. I am cool with that too.
Remember, after Parkland the House GOP refused to consider new gun control proposals because they already passed FixNICS. Friends, that's a successful smoke screen! We can do that again without eroding gun rights.
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