That's the issue. The taxes are already being raised and cuts still have to be made and that considers that school doesn't have mall cops for security. There is no wasted money there. People already don't like investing in schools and this would be another expense that districts would struggle to afford unless there are federal or state dollars paying for it because there is no chance local money can afford this.
OK you seem to be of the mindset that this simply isn't an option and nothing I say will change you mind. You're gonna keep coming back with can't as a response. Yet our Governments at the State and Local and Federal levels find ways daily to raise taxes and fund ridiculous programs.
The money CAN come from the State and Federal Government. Frankly I think it should. I would have no problem with Big Daddy Government mandating that all schools have at least one armed guard and fund it federally.
Look at these Federal programs funded by taxpayer dollars:
1. “Spaceport to Nowhere.” The Missile Defense Agency continues to fund a rocket launch site in Alaska that could cost the organization up to $80.4 million. The facility is 20 years old, “rarely used,” and was established with an $18 million earmark. “The millions spent to date on this launch complex have not made America safer from potential missile attacks from foreign adversaries,” the report states. “To the contrary, it has siphoned away tens of millions of dollars that could have been better spent on more promising initiatives.”
2. Fishes on a Treadmill. How long can a mudskipper use a treadmill? The University of California-San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography is using grant money from the National Science Foundation to answer just that. The study found that mudskippers “can exercise longer and recover quicker under higher oxygen concentrations.” The grant also is slated to be used “to purchase what one of the researchers jokingly refers to as ‘all the toys’ as well as travel costs for junkets to conferences.”
3. Holograms at a Comedy Museum. The National Comedy Center, a nonprofit in New York, received a $1.7 million grant from the Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration to create a comedy museum. The museum will feature holograms of dead comedians. A New York state lawmaker has promised to bring an additional $3 million in federal funding. “I’m not kidding you,” Flake said at Heritage. “It’s a comedy club that, unfortunately, gets your tax dollars.”
4. Partying College Students. Part of a $5 million grant from a section of the National Institutes of Health paid for a researcher at Brown University to study the partying habits of college students. Some findings: “Greek members engaged in more risky health behaviors … than non-Greek members,” and college students tend to increase their intake of alcohol on game days. “According to the researchers,” Flake said, “all the games had the same goal—causing the participants to become intoxicated. I think that falls into the obvious category.”
5. Do Boys or Girls Play More With Dolls? A study executed by Vanderbilt University with money from the National Eye Institute and National Science Foundation examined “whether boys or girls spend more time playing with Barbie dolls.” The report surveyed about 300 men and women and cost over $300,000. The study also found, in the words of Flake’s report, that “women were much better at identifying the correct Barbies while the men were more likely to recognize the Transformers.”
6. Singing Dinosaurs. A study conducted with partial funding from $450,000 in grants from the National Science Foundation examined whether dinosaurs were able to sing. The two-year study examined, in part, whether dinosaurs ever possessed a syrinx. The lead author said the study was “another important step to figuring out what dinosaurs sounded like.”
7. Binge-Watching Computers. Can computers learn human behavior by binge-watching TV shows such as “The Office” and “Desperate Housewives?” The study was funded in part by the Department of Defense’s Office of Naval Research and the National Science Foundation, which helped researchers study how TV shows “train computers to understand and predict human behavior.” Flake said he sees this research as nonsensical. “Spending nearly a half a billion dollars to … turn computers into couch potatoes doesn’t compute for me,” he said.
I live in Maryland. The prior Democratic Governor pushed and got passed a new bill to tax us, the residents, on RAIN. I am taxed on RAIN.
Cut these stupid pork programs an re-allocate the money to providing armed security to our schools.
Don't tell me it can't be done. It absolutely can be done.
The problem is political. The Government doesn't want to make a common sense decision that will fix this problem by putting armed guards in the schools. They want to go after guns. So don't expect this to happen.
We will continue to hear excuses like those you've put forward as reasons why we can't fix the problem but instead there will continue to be a march towards gun confiscation.
