Friday, December 28, 2012
When on stupid Conservative idea runs into another
You get a situation like the one in Arizona where the Attorney General, in speaking out for one policy, pulls the rug out from underneath himself because of another.
Merging an environment of state budget cuts with calls for heavily arming schools, Arizona Attorney-General Tom Horne has suggested arming school principals or “another designee.”More accurately he is showing the hollowness of both ideas, Potemkin policies with no substance behind their facades.
On Friday, the National Rifle Association in a press conference called for there to be armed police officers in every school to prevent attacks along the lines of the elementary school shooting in Newtown, CT, rather than stricter gun control. With state budgets hurting, however, Horne noted that “school resource officers,” members of the police force specially trained to handle instances of juvenile law, emergency response, and student counseling, are on the decline in Arizona schools.
The solution then, to Horne, is to model schools after the post-2001 mandate that airline pilots be armed in plane cabins. In proposing that only principals be armed, Horne believes he is taking a moderate stance.
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