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    LL> at every school.  What he wants is taxpayers to buy the   
    LL> guns and pay the salary for all those policemen/security.   
    LL> It would be a boon for the NRA, as all those folks would   
    LL> immediately join as new dues-paying members of the NRA.   
    LL> And gun manufacturers would love it, with all them weapons   
    LL> being bought with public funds ...   
      
    I have no problem with that, if they are actual police, not   
    rentacops. What was my figure on that, about $1bill/yr?   
      
    ...   
      
   JM>>Shouldn't that be their choice, not your choice for them?   
      
    Not just their choice.   
      
    LL> Why would any teacher want to put their life on the line   
    LL> for such meager pay?  An insane teacher might.  But that   
      
    Several did a couple weeks ago.   
      
    LL> should alarm parents even more, with the mere thought of   
    LL> what that teacher might do if he/she had a weapon on   
    LL> his/her person.   
      
    Train a teacher to the level of a cop, then pay more. An unarmed   
    teacher gets $45k/yr... armed $120k/yr. Ok, just estimates.   
      
    ...   
      
   JM>>I do? If I didn't know better I would say you are making shit up.   
      
    LL> Teaching is a profession.  Asking teachers to arm   
    LL> themselves and play cop is ludicrous, as security has   
    LL> nothing to do with education.   
      
    Not if they apply, get police level training, and get paid more.   
      
    LL> If you want to hire real cops to provide security for   
    LL> schools, If you want to hire real cops to provide security   
    LL> for schools, that is one thing.  About one-third of our   
      
    Which was my suggestion.   
      
    LL> schools have that in place at is is, mostly in poor   
    LL> neighborhoods.  Arming teachers is a totally different, and   
    LL> idiotically stupid, matter.   
      
    Not if they are trained to the police level. And that would mean   
    regular retraining. Which would mean more money.   
      
    ...   
      
   JM>>It is truly amazing how you and Bob think you can foresee the future   
   JM>>with 100% certainty.   
      
    LL> I'll tell you once and I'll tell you again - we're psychic.   
      
    Went through that back in 1965, at work. A woman in ST Louis   
    told me, in Chicago, something I thought she did not know. I   
    asked how she knew that.   
      
    She said, "I'm psycho."   
      
    I said, "Don't you mean psychic?"   
      
    She replied, "I find when I say I'm psycho people don't argue   
    with me."   
      
    Consider that.   
      
    ...   
      
   JM>>It is truly amazing how you and Bob think you can foresee the future   
   JM>>with 100% certainty.   
      
    LL> Like I said - we're psychic.   
      
    Or psycho?   
      
      
   BOB KLAHN bob.klahn@sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn   
      
   ... Well, to be frank, I'd have to change my name.   
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