Guns and Grizzlies and schools

[packman]

At the confirmation hearing, Betsy DeVos, President-elect Donald Trump's education secretary nominee, said it should be up to states whether guns are allowed in schools, citing grizzly bear protection as part of her answer

Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy, who represents Sandy Hook, the site of the 2012 school shooting, asked DeVos if she believes guns have "any place in and around schools."

"I think that is best left to locales and states to decide," she said.

After Murphy pushed DeVos about why she can't say definitively whether they belong, DeVos brought up a story Sen. Mike Enzi told earlier about a school in Wyoming that has fences around it to protect against grizzly bears.


"I will refer back to Sen. Enzi and the school he is talking about in Wyoming. I think probably there, I would imagine there is probably a gun in a school to protect from potential grizzlies," she said.

The comment drew some laughs in the room.

Shit, why not -

http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/17/politics/betsy-devos-grizzly-bears-donald-trump-guns/

[Tanuki]

1. Schools are under much more threat from Betsy Prince DeVos than from any damn grizzly bear.

[Girard442]

2. That style of arguing used to be found in the swamps of blog comment sections.

Now it's gone mainstream.

[FSogol]

3. K & R. n/t