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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"ARM THE JANITORS" - suddenly...it all makes sense?
Ohio School Board Votes To Arm School Janitors
BECAUSE:
there didnt even seem to be a male janitor to heave his bucket at Adam Lanzas knees.
By Ian Millhiser posted from ThinkProgress Justice on Jan 11, 2013 at 4:50 pm
The Montpelier Exempted Village Schools Board of Education in Montelier, Ohio voted unanimously on Wednesday night to allow handgun training for four custodians, who will then tote firearms on the schools campus. In an explanation of this policy that echoes the National Rifle Associations infamous claim that The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun, school Superintendent Jamie Grime claimed that having guns in the hands of the right people are not a hindrance. They are a means to protect.
This is not the first time janitors were suggested as the first line of defense against a school shooter, in an article arguing that the Sandy Hook shooting resulted in more deaths because there was not a single adult male on the school premises when the shooting occurred, the National Reviews Charlotte Allen lamented that there didnt even seem to be a male janitor to heave his bucket at Adam Lanzas knees.
MORE:
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/01/11/1439061/ohio-school-board-votes-to-arm-school-janitors/
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and then, i remembered Newt the Clairvoyant Conservative:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1111/68729.html#ixzz1e7Mzu56h
perhaps, he was on to something...certainly, they are not going to pay these janitors more $$$ - problem solved? kp
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"ARM THE JANITORS" - suddenly...it all makes sense? (Original Post)
kpete
Jan 2013
OP
Please send your solutions to Biden's “Gun Violence Commission” and CC we DUers. nt
jody
Jan 2013
#1
"They hired me to clean up this school, Miss Peebles, and I intend to do just that"
struggle4progress
Jan 2013
#4
jody
(26,624 posts)1. Please send your solutions to Biden's “Gun Violence Commission” and CC we DUers. nt
kenny blankenship
(15,689 posts)2. Fuck Yeah!
Laurian
(2,593 posts)3. WTF? The whole f**king country has gone nuts. eom
struggle4progress
(118,293 posts)4. "They hired me to clean up this school, Miss Peebles, and I intend to do just that"
Laurian
(2,593 posts)5. Poor janitors are already overworked and underpaid, now
they're expected to be cannon fodder. Why not take steps to make sure no shooters can get into or near the schools? Oh that's right..... it would cost more money than trying to turn janitors into gunslingers.
struggle4progress
(118,293 posts)6. +
gkhouston
(21,642 posts)7. Well, that's one way to get gum off the desks. n/t
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)8. are the janitors going to get harzard / firearm pay?