We have 132,000 schools (public and private) in this country at this time. We either take 132,000 police off the streets or hire, train and maintain additional police. Aside from the cost of training these new recruits, this will require an annual outlay of close to 7 billion dollars for the police alone. The total cost will be closer to 10 billion per year, or 100 billion per decade. (Note, this is how the current budget costs are being framed in the fiscal cliff discussions.)
For all you tea party folks, this means we cut out 100 billion dollars from somewhere, say mental health or perhaps childhood immunization programs.
Are we next going to place armed guards in nursery schools? How about day-care? If not, why not? Do we not care about children under five? Are we going to send armed guards on school field trips? How about churches, movie theaters, concerts, political rallies, etc. How about on school buses?
How about military bases (Fort Hood, for example)
Do we just want to "keep safe" school aged children while in the classroom? What about me? If I slip up and leave my AK-47 at home and I need it to defend myself, what is going to happen to me?
Who payes for this police state? If we just stop supporting the 47% sucking on hind-tit there would be plenty of money. Dump social security, Medicare, Medicaid, NIH, FDA, most federal cabinet departments, like energy, education, HEW, etc. They just make regulations that prevent jobs anyway.
You get the idea.
After all we need the 100 round 'clips' for our assault guns. Those deer are hard to bring down.
As some of you might guess, I am for reasonable gun control.
