zombie horde: 2) the children of high-profile people are significantly greater targets than other children, and possibly 3) the school may have had armed guards long before the President's kids attended.
Yes, nra creates an asinine dilemma, that obama is an elitist stripping rights since his kids have armed guards.
The only way near parity protection could be achieved (as the nra would have it) would be to have a guard in each classroom, armed or not (I've heard reports that O's kids oftentimes have only gds with no firearms around - who's to know if/when a bodyguard might turn, eh? something parents need not worry about).
Adding one armed guard to a school of several hundreds is nowhere near the protection which obama's kids have whether by armed gds or just constant & necessary surveillance, & this is just normal security which all presidents children get. Did the nra harp on gwbush's security detail for his girls?
.. one armed gd in a school isn't likely to be there when a shooter immediately opens fire & hits a dozen students; while true it's far more likely that obama's kids bodyguards will be around if the shooter tried to get them, but again, that's because they are more 'delicious' targets for the sick minded & anti democrat crowd of demented gunnuts. Historically, enemies would always shoot at the standard bearer carrying the flag, and obamas kids are standard bearers.
The overall presentation is poor, in my opinion, but it may be good for the targeted audience.
-The spooky voice is silly. -Pause the video at 0:23 and you will see the words "PROTECTION FOR THEIR KIDS," and on both sides of those words will an assortment of some hardcore-looking weapons,
The video is sick, comes from sick minded people trying to play off political necessities to fabricate a bigoted view that obama is using something he's trying to ban, to protect his own while ignoring the plights of 'commoner children'.
Those common children (me, you in past lives) need not worry much about getting shot, it's fellow schoolmates who do most the bullying you know, they are only randomly selected by chance, wrong place wrong time, but the same would be true if an armed gd were in every school, as the shooter hit a few during the initial surprise attack.
I lived in DC area 30 yrs, & 'sidwell friends' is where obamas kids attend; I had heard of it previous but knew little of it, thought it was a mainly black public school but I am wrong after googling. Evidently has two branches, one in Georgetown DC the other about 15 miles north in maryland bethesda. Oh my, it's quaker based! - Quakers also are known as 'Friends', historically. The school is located in the Northwest quadrant of DC's 4 quads, the 'white' quadrant which is also the safest & most affluent & has the least crime. The other 3 quads in DC have more crime problems - the DC mall, capitol etc is in southwest or southeast but has high security so little crime. Qaukers, ironically pacifistic, generally opposed going around armed, quaker pennsylvania was last colony to form a militia.
wiki: Sidwell Friends School is a highly selective Quaker private school located in Bethesda, Md and Washington, D.C., offering pre-k through secondary school.. Founded 1883 by Thomas Sidwell, its motto "Eluceat omnibus lux" (Let the light shine out from all), alluding to the Quaker concept of inner light. All Sidwell Friends students attend Quaker meeting for worship weekly.
The school's admissions process is merit-based. As documented on the school's website, it gives preference in admissions decisions to members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), but otherwise does not discriminate on the basis of religion. The school does accept vouchers under the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program. Both Barack Obama's daughters, attend Sidwell, which has been described as "the Harvard of Washington's private schools". Joe Biden's grandchildren also attend the school. Previously, President Theodore Roosevelt's son, Richard Nixon's daughter, Bill Clinton's daughter Chelsea, and Vice President Al Gore's son all graduated from Sidwell Friends.
Came across this from dubious cred 'breitbart' but could be true, excepting embellishing about gds being 'armed' always: Sidwell Friends School in DC, has 11 security officers and is seeking to hire a new police officer.. If you dismiss this by saying, "Of course they have armed guards -- they get Secret Service protection," then you've missed the larger point. The larger point is that this is standard operating procedure for the school, period. And this is the reason people like NBC's David Gregory send their kids to Sidwell, they know their kids will be protected from the carnage that befell kids at a school where armed guards weren't used
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