March 1-4, 2018
Mar 01 06:28 CNN's firearms 'expert' Mar 01 08:48 President Trump's gun mistake Mar 01 19:28 The Democrats' culture war Mar 02 02:53 Dayton's broken big government Mar 02 04:29 Democrats, PROMISE, Eric Holder & Scott Israel Mar 03 15:21 Parkland: what went wrong? Mar 03 20:04 MNLARS: Hornstein vs. Anderson Mar 04 08:17 Bobble-headed professors
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CNN's firearms 'expert'
I'll immediately stipulate that I'm not a firearms expert. It's been years since I fired a gun, in fact. That being said, I won't hesitate in saying that I'm more of a firearms expert than the clown that CNN used to explain what a semi-automatic rifle is.
I wouldn't have seen the comedy if not for Shannon Bream's interview with Dan Bongino. According to Wikipedia , "Bongino worked with the New York City Police Department for four years, from 1995 to 1999. He joined the U.S. Secret Service in 1999 as a special agent, leaving the New York Field Office in 2002 to become an instructor at the Secret Service Training Academy in Beltsville, Maryland. In 2006, he was assigned to the U.S. Presidential Protection Division during George W. Bush's term. He remained on protective duty after Barack Obama became President, leaving in May 2011 to run for the U.S. Senate." Bongino also hosts a radio program called "The Dan Bongino Show."
Here's the video of CNN's 'expert':
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CNN's expert first fired off a single shot. Then he said "If I wanted to fire this on full semi-automatic, all I'd do is keep firing." Here's Bongino's reaction to that:
Now you see why law-abiding Americans -- who just want to be left alone -- they did nothing wrong with their firearms at all -- they just want to be left alone -- they see this as more than just a war on firearms. This is a war on their culture in general and clips like this don't help. What the heck is a full semi-automatic as that guy said in the clip? (Check out Bream's reaction to that. It's epic.) A full semi-automatic? I've never seen such a thing. Semi-automatic meaning trigger pull, one round. Automatic meaning trigger pull, rounds keep coming...
The point I don't want to skip over is that elitists are waging war on our culture.
Think about this: why did the founding fathers think that the Second Amendment was an essential part of our civil rights? Hint: what type of government had they just been tormented by? The founding fathers wanted to make sure that they left an America where We The People had the ability to fight a corrupt government.
Bongino couldn't resist talking about the "USA Today chainsaw bayonet", saying "I swear to you, when I thought that was a joke the first time I saw that. USA Today said these are accessories on an AR-15. What are you trimming your hedges with your AR-15 on the weekend?"
I can't stress this enough. This issue isn't the only instance where the American people are fighting against an elitist, distant federal government. Does anyone think that Nancy Pelosi or Chuck Schumer knows the first thing about guns? I certainly don't. Did then-candidate Obama understand guns? I haven't seen proof that he did.
The final question I want you to ask yourself is this: The government, on multiple levels, from the Broward County Sheriff's Office to the FBI, screwed up repeatedly. Still, this beast bought a gun and killed 17 people. Shouldn't we first demand that the government get things right before it thinks about stripping law-abiding citizens' rights? I didn't do anything wrong. The politicians and the bureaucrats got this wrong. I won't sacrifice my God-given rights because the government screwed up. Period.
Posted Thursday, March 1, 2018 6:28 AM
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President Trump's gun mistake
I don't doubt that President Trump's heart is in the right place in terms of wanting to make students safer. I'm equally certain that there isn't a snowball's prayer in hell of getting what he said he wants in terms of taking guns first, then giving the perp due process afterwards.
I'm confident that he'll lose that fight and he'll lose it badly. It won't be part of any final bill that Congress passes. Period. To recap, during yesterday's bipartisan meeting on eliminating school shootings, President Trump said "I like taking the guns early, like in this crazy man's case that just took place in Florida ... to go to court would have taken a long time. Take the guns first, go through due process second."
That sounds like a stream-of-consciousness-type statement. Once someone explains that the courts would rule that unconstitutional in a minute, he'll snap out of dealmaker mode. People have already figured out that President Trump isn't a great policymaker. He's a dealmaker, not a policy wonk.
Democrats shouldn't think that there will be an assault weapons ban. If they insist on that, they'll lose the PR battle. Further, if President Trump insists on including a provision that people can't buy a rifle until they're 21, he'll find that he's bitten off more than he can chew.
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Banning a 20-year-old single mother from buying a handgun or rifle is a PR and policy nightmare. How do you sell a policy that prevents a single mother from protecting her children? That's a can't-win situation.
I'm thankful that President Trump met with Congress to share ideas. I'm confidant that many of the things they talked about won't be part of a final bill. Some of the ideas, frankly, sound good initially but sound stupid if you think them through.
Posted Thursday, March 1, 2018 8:48 AM
Comment 1 by JerryE9 at 01-Mar-18 09:54 AM
the only flaw in your piece here is that you assume public policy is made after "thinking things through." For example, we already have a law that says guns are not allowed within a thousand feet of a school. Did anybody think that maybe somebody intent on breaking the law against murder several times over would not be deterred by this additional misdemeanor?
Response 1.1 by Gary Gross at 01-Mar-18 06:37 PM
I didn't assume that. I'm merely insisting that we stop with 'surely-we-must-do-something' lawmaking.
Comment 2 by JerryE9 at 03-Mar-18 08:14 AM
Sorry, I didn't mean "you," but rather the sense of the politicians that "doing something" and "thinking things through" are at all related when in fact they are usually quite the opposite. They all need to read up about King Canute.
The Democrats' culture war
If anyone thinks that the 2018 midterm elections are about tax cuts or the economy, it's time to wake up. The Democrats intend on making this election about cultural issues. Think gun control, LGBTQ rights, DACA, etc. The latest proof of that is the revelation that major Democratic groups have been helping students from Marjory Stoneman-Douglas HS . In fact, the article says that "Several large progressive organizations, donors, and a high-powered public relations firm are backing the March for Our Lives movement, which is quickly evolving from a student-run social media effort to end gun violence into one backed by some of the most influential activists in the country."
These kids are being used as pawn in the wake of the shooting deaths that happened at MSD HS. Next, the article says that "major players and organizations - including Everytown, Giffords, Move On, Planned Parenthood, and the Women's March LA - told BuzzFeed News they are helping the students with logistics, strategy, and planning for next month's March for Our Lives rally and beyond."
This is beyond disgusting. These students are stricken with grief. They mostly want to just be safe in school. Instead, anti-gun groups like Everytown and the Giffords Foundation have hijacked the movement. Apparently, the left thinks that the kids will be persuasive because they're fresh faces. I wouldn't bet on it. Once the word gets out that these anti-gun groups have hijacked this movement, the backlash will be severe.
Does anyone seriously think that these anti-gun groups give a damn about the kids? Let's get serious. They care only about their agenda. The students will be pitched aside the minute they achieve their legislative goals. That isn't the only thing that the left is trying to hijack. This video captures a heated debate between Tucker Carlson and an elitist/extremist named Mark Purpura:
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What kind of nut job thinks he has the right to 'help' students determine their race or gender? Does anyone seriously think that a Speaker Pelosi won't spend the next 2 years trying to implement the Left's social agenda? Of course she will.
It's time to wake up. The left doesn't have an economic plan because it cares more about divisive social issues.
Posted Thursday, March 1, 2018 7:28 PM
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Dayton's broken big government
The DFL, aka the Party of Big Government, have given us another crisis because the Party of Big Government can't get government to deliver essential services. I'm talking about the MNLARS system, which, theoretically, was supposed to help transfer vehicle titles and issue new license tabs and plates.
God bless Tom Hauser's Twitter feed. According to Hauser's tweet, "A spokeswoman for the MN Automobile Dealers Association says 92% of their members say the MNLARS system for vehicle registration is as bad or worse than it was in November."
Don Davis of Forum News is reporting that "Contractors trying to fix the state software are receiving notices that the state is out of money to pay them. Minnesota Information Technology Services mailed letters Thursday night to 39 people working as independent contractors. The state agency says workers will begin to leave right away, which will stop work to repair the ill-fated computer system that has angered Minnesotans since summer."
Thus far, Minnesotans should applaud this because the bill for this project will stop at $93,000,000. The Dayton administration knew that the new system wasn't ready. That didn't stop them from letting it go live. It's been a disaster ever since. That started in July.
A spokeswoman for the MN Automobile Dealers Association says 92% of their members say the MNLARS system for vehicle registration is as bad or worse than it was in November. pic.twitter.com/nmLZWPNqJu
- Tom Hauser (@thauserkstp) February 27, 2018
This isn't the only IT disaster tied to the Dayton administration. The Dayton administration's first IT-related disaster was MNsure. That was a disaster for months.
The Party of Big Government has failed at producing stable, reliable services that Minnesotans can rely on. It's time to turn Minnesota state government over to people who know what they're doing and who will get things done on time and under budget.
Posted Friday, March 2, 2018 2:53 AM
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Democrats, PROMISE, Eric Holder & Scott Israel
I won't sugarcoat this. Democrats have shown recently that they're soft on crime, including mass murderers. Thanks to Ed Morrissey's post and Paul Sperry's reporting , we're finally getting a view of why Nikolas Cruz wasn't flagged.
Simply put, the Obama administration's Department of Education essentially ordered schools to stop reporting crimes or risk getting federal funding pulled. Let's remember that then-Attorney General Eric Holder went on a crusade against mass incarcerations . (I'll return to this in a bit.)
According to Sperry's reporting, the "responsibility falls on the Obama administration's Department of Education, which attempted to disconnect punishment from crimes committed by students." Further, "In 2013, the school district in Broward County rewrote its disciplinary procedures to avoid referrals to law enforcement. Current superintendent Robert Runcie developed the program, and the Department of Education not only endorsed it but made it part of their own policies."
It goes further:
In January 2014, Duncan's department issued new discipline guidelines strongly recommending that schools use law enforcement measures and out-of-school suspensions as a last resort. Announced jointly by Duncan and then-Attorney General Eric Holder, the new procedures came as more than friendly guidance from Uncle Sam - they also came with threats of federal investigations and defunding for districts that refused to fully comply .
Broward County was a willing participant:
No district has taken this new approach further than Broward County. The core of the approach is a program called PROMISE (Preventing Recidivism through Opportunities, Mentoring, Interventions, Support & Education), which substitutes counseling for criminal detention for students who break the law. According to the district website, the program is "designed to address the unique needs of students who have committed a behavioral infraction that would normally lead to a juvenile delinquency arrest and, therefore, entry into the juvenile justice system."
In other words, the new disciplinary system implemented at Holder's insistence is minimal, almost non-existent discipline based on ... who knows what?
We've got another school shooting but at least we don't have increased recidivism. I can't imagine how relieved those parents in Broward County are to hear that.
Additional literature reveals that students referred to PROMISE for in-school misdemeanors - including assault, theft, vandalism, underage drinking and drug use - receive a controversial alternative punishment known as restorative justice.
"Rather than focusing on punishment, restorative justice seeks to repair the harm done," the district explains. Indeed, it isn't really punishment at all. It's more like therapy. Delinquents gather in "healing circles" with counselors, and sometimes even the victims of their crime, and talk about their feelings and "root causes" of their anger.
What type of stupidity is this? Holder and Broward County superintendent Robert Runcie should be named as defendants in the parents' wrongful death lawsuit. This should never have happened. Think of the list of crimes that are overlooked by PROMISE: assault , theft, vandalism , underage drinking and drug use. Which of those crimes sounds like a touchy-feely type of crime.
To the liberals and the shit-for-brains libertarians that think we should look past these things, I have a simple message. Tell that to the parents of those that died on Valentines Day inside Marjory Stoneman-Douglas HS.
Then there's Holder's foolish campaign against mass incarceration. In Medellin, Columbia, Holder said this:
The path we are currently on is far from sustainable. As we speak, roughly one out of every 100 American adults is behind bars. Although the United States comprises just five percent of the world's population, we incarcerate almost a quarter of the world's prisoners. While few would dispute the fact that incarceration has a role to play in any comprehensive public safety strategy, it's become evident that such widespread incarceration is both inadvisable and unsustainable. It requires that we routinely spend billions of dollars on prison construction - and tens of billions more, on an annual basis, to house those who are convicted of crimes. It carries both human and moral costs that are too much to bear. And it results in far too many Americans serving too much time in too many prisons - and beyond the point of serving any good law enforcement reason.
Mr. Holder, I triple-dog dare you to give that speech to the parents of the students who will never see their kids again. Mr. Holder and Sheriff Israel had the ability to prevent this mass shooting. Instead, they did nothing.
Sheriff Israel should be terminated ASAP and stripped of his pension, if that's possible. The harm he's done is immense and irreparable. Holder should never be allowed to be part of an administration ever again. Between this mass shooting and the deaths from Fast and Furious, he's had a hand in too much killing of innocents.
Again, the government screwed up multiple times but Democrat politicians insist that the remedy for governmental incompetence is impinging on our constitutional rights. It isn't surprising that people think politicians are stupid.
Originally posted Friday, March 2, 2018, revised 03-Mar 9:33 AM
Comment 1 by John Palmer at 02-Mar-18 10:15 AM
Every reader should check to make sure their school district has drunk this poison laced Coolaide. Also each of us should ask our police and sheriff departments if they are willing participants in what amounts to a cover up of what actually is happening in our schools.
Response 1.1 by Gary Gross at 03-Mar-18 07:18 AM
I can't emphasize enough the importance of parents investigating this program in their communities. Further, I'd recommend that people investigate whether the DOJ has a similar program that it uses on adult juveniles. IF I know anything about the federal gov't, it's that it duplicates programs for multiple cabinet departments. I'd promise that PROMISE isn't just a Dept. of Education program. (It might have another name in a different department but it exists.)
Parkland: what went wrong?
It's time to figure out the things that went wrong with the Marjory Stoneman-Douglas HS shooting. Why didn't the Broward County Sheriff's Office detect the shooter? Why wasn't he arrested? How big of a role did the PROMISE Program play in this tragedy? Did the Obama administration put in place the building blocks that all but insured this tragedy?
What we know
We know that the School Resource Officer stayed outside the school once the shooting started. We know that it's his job to run towards danger when all hell breaks loose. He didn't do that. He hid rather than protect students. Further, we know that 3 other deputies stayed outside rather than running in and saving kids' lives.
Additionally, we know that Broward County enthusiastically implemented the PROMISE Program in 2013. PROMISE stands for "Preventing Recidivism through Opportunities, Mentoring, Interventions, Support & Education". It provides counselling for misdemeanors like "assault, theft, vandalism, underage drinking and drug use", which focuses on something known as restorative justice. What's frightening about this is that these incidents don't get reported to the police or sheriff's department.
According to the District , "Rather than focusing on punishment, restorative justice seeks to repair the harm done." In other words, these students are told to take touchy-feely classes rather than facing legitimate discipline. People like Nikolas Cruz don't 'slip through the cracks.' They laugh their asses off at the idiots administering the PROMISE Program while they waltz through the cracks.
PROMISE
What we're finding out about PROMISE is that it's been pushed by former Attorney General Eric Holder and former Education Secretary Arne Duncan. Further, it's known, thanks almost entirely because of Paul Sperry's reporting , that Duncan and Holder recommended using "law enforcement measures and out-of-school suspensions as a last resort."
This has led to anarchy at schools:
"Broward County adopted a lenient disciplinary policy similar to those adopted by many other districts under pressure from the Obama administration to reduce racial 'disparities' in suspensions and expulsions," said Peter Kirsanow, a black conservative on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights in Washington. "In many of these districts, the drive to 'get our numbers right' has produced disastrous results, with startling increases in both the number and severity of disciplinary offenses, including assaults and beatings of teachers and students."
That's just the tip of the iceberg. Here's worse:
Kirsanow said that in just the first year after the Obama administration issued its anti-discipline edict, public schools failed to expel more than 30,000 students who physically attacked teachers or staff across the country. Previously, "if you hit a teach, you're gone," he said, but that is no longer the case.
That's terrible but it gets worse:
For example, in St. Paul, Minn., a high school science teacher was "beaten and choked out" by a 16-year-old student, who allegedly came up behind him, called him a "f--king white cracker," and put him in a stranglehold, before bashing his head into a concrete wall and pavement. The student, Fon'Tae O'Bannon, got 90 days of electronic home monitoring and anger management counseling for the December 2015 attack.
If it isn't obvious that violence is increasing at these schools as a result of leniency policies, then it's apparent that people aren't paying attention.
Sheriff Israel
Through this disaster, Sheriff Israel has been the poster-child for stupidity and arrogance. He should've been suspended before the CNN lynching, aka CNN town hall. Before he took the stage that night, he knew that his deputies had failed those students. Those deputies that stayed outside should've been fired immediately. Instead, Sheriff Israel praised them. If I was the father of one of those students that got murdered and I'd heard Sheriff Israel praise his deputies, there's a better than 50-50% chance I wouldn't take that well.
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Student Activists?
Those innocent students who simply want to be safe in their schools aren't that innocent. It's interesting that we've learned that major anti-gun rights organizations are picking up the tab for these anti-gun rallies in Florida and across the nation:
Since then, major players and organizations, including Everytown, Giffords, Move On, and Women's March LA, told BuzzFeed News they are helping with logistics, strategy, and planning for next month's March for Our Lives rally and beyond. Much of the specific resources the groups are providing to the Parkland students remains unclear, as is the full list of supporting organizations, but there are broad outlines.
Giffords, an organization started by former US Rep. Gabrielle Giffords that fights gun violence, is working with Everytown and Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America to plan the main march on Washington, as well as sister rallies across the country.
These organizations are disgusting. It's one thing to advocate for misguided policies. That's their right. It's another to use children to advance those ill-informed policies. That's manipulating young people who've just been through a traumatic experience. That's cold-blooded. That's unacceptable.
Posted Saturday, March 3, 2018 3:21 PM
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MNLARS: Hornstein vs. Anderson
Friday night on Almanac, Sarah Anderson debated Frank Hornstein about the failed MNLARS system. Saturday afternoon, I got Chair Anderson's first e-letter update of the new session. The first item in Chair Anderson's e-letter update was about MNLARS. I'm thankful Chair Anderson took the time to explain the history of MNLARS in the e-letter update.
It said "Ten years ago, the Legislature provided $40 million in funding to replace the mainframe system that manages vehicle and licensing services. Completion of the project was repeatedly delayed and the Legislature poured more money into it to get it up and running. Last summer, the vehicle title, registration, and permits portion was rolled out for use. It quickly became apparent the system was not ready for prime time. Ten years and $93 million later, we are stuck with a system that doesn't work."
Chair Anderson continued, saying "On February 21, Governor Dayton asked for another $10 million immediately because MNIT (agency responsible for technology) and the Department of Public Safety miscalculated their budget and are set to run out of funds at the end of March and there are still fixes to be made. This "no questions can be asked" request is not how the Legislature operates. The agencies involved still need to detail how the funds will be spent and whether it will actually fix the problems with the system. At this point, we are told the system will cost around $160 million (four times the original amount) with $20 million in ongoing costs. This is not how government should run."
Chair Anderson is right. Governance via ultimatum isn't acceptable. That's Gov. Dayton's preferred style at this point with MNLARS. Being the faithful DFL soldier that he is, apparently, that's Rep. Hornstein's preferred method, too:
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I'll give the DFL credit for one thing: when the word goes out that they're expected to defend the indefensible, they all-in. They don't question orders. Watch Ellen Anderson and Ember Reichgott-Junge insist that Republicans will get hurt in November if they don't blindly pay for the MNLARS fixes:
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Sen. Koch is right. MNLARS is a disaster. For Sen. Anderson and Sen. Reichgott-Junge to insist that Republicans will pay a price for the DFL's ineptitude is laughable. Eventually, Republicans will appropriate more money. The thing is that they won't appropriate more money until MNIT gives the legislature a plan for how that money will be used.
If the Party of Big Government, aka the DFL, won't explain how the money will be spent and lay out a timeline for when each phase of the project will be completed, MNLARS' failure will fall on the DFL. Anything else is pure spin.
Originally posted Saturday, March 3, 2018, revised 05-Mar 5:11 AM
Comment 1 by Patrick Mattson at 04-Mar-18 05:56 AM
In Wisconsin we have Ez-Tab machines where you can renew your vehicle registration. Very convenient http://ez-tab.com/ or https://www.facebook.com/EZ.TAB/ and our car plates go with the person not the vehicle; I bought a new car recently and had my old plates transferred and on the new car in 5 minutes, my car salesperson even put them on for me. Know where Ez-Tab's headquarters is: Saint Michael, MN. Perhaps the state of Minnesota should have contracted with Ez-Tab to fix the MNLARS system. Also when I moved about 1-2 years ago it took me less than 10 minutes (excluding wait time for my turn) to hand in my paperwork for a new DL card. I received it in the mail in less than 2 weeks.
Comment 2 by Chad Q at 04-Mar-18 08:44 AM
Other states have systems that work so why don't we just get a copy of their software and use that? Or how about we hire the people who built Amazon's, eBay's or just about any other online merchant's website and stop pissing millions down the drain?
I can't wait to move to Wisconsin!
Comment 3 by Patrick Mattson at 04-Mar-18 09:07 AM
Forgot to mention I got my DMV Certificate of Ownership (title goes to lien holder now) in 1-2 weeks.
Comment 4 by Rexnewman at 04-Mar-18 07:35 PM
Hornstein has complete faith that all those contractors are doing something useful and all rowing together under perfect supervision based on knowing exactly what's wrong and how best to fix, and at an incredible pace. Nonsense. Another reality is that good contractors are expensive, and many of less expensive are otherwise unemployable. By now, MnIt should know which are which, keeping only the good. That drops that 10 million to more like 2-3 million with the added bonus of speed, not having to cope with the mistakes the others will make. Old IT proverb: adding people to a late project makes it later.
Response 4.1 by Gary Gross at 05-Mar-18 03:37 AM
I'd never heard that ancient IT proverb but it rings true.
What strikes me after-the-fact is that Rep. Hornstein was smiling the entire interview. Happy talk from a happy face?
Bobble-headed professors
What is it about some professors that make them incapable of figuring out why school shootings (or other shootings) happen? This LTE is a perfect example of where people instantly blame gun laws for shooting deaths? The activists (more on this in a minute) insist on universal background checks to eliminate these shootings. Other activists push banning assault weapons.
The opening of Prof. Rachel Melis' LTE says "As a mother and professor, it frightens and angers me to realize yet again how vulnerable my children, students and I are to gun violence, and how little is being done about it. I feel like anything else terrorizing our kids to this level would cause us to at least try to fix it, but with gun violence it seems like every fix, other than 'more guns,' gets rejected as imperfect. Since 'more guns' isn't working, we should try every other solution, starting with lifting the ban that currently prevents the Center for Disease Control from researching gun violence as a public health epidemic."
First, I don't question Prof. Melis' sincerity. I'm questioning her analytic ability. That's because the beast that shot up Stoneman-Douglas HS shouldn't have gotten a gun under existing law. The reason he didn't get flagged after dozens of specific tips to local law enforcement is because the tips got forwarded to what I mockingly call touchy-feely class instructors. Officially, this was part of a federal plan characterized as part of the 'restorative justice' system.
This is intellectually dishonest:
Because gunshot wounds are the third leading cause of death for children 1 to 17 years old, I will stand with the Florida survivors now and in the November elections. In particular, I hope parents, teens, and people in St. Cloud who want to protect life will work to limit military-style weapons.
This voter will stand with Florida survivors now and in November by insisting that we stop feel-good programs that don't flag dangerous behavior.
The people outside the Broward County School District's PROMISE Program knew that Nikolas Cruz was a ticking time bomb waiting to go off. Unfortunately, the idiots running the Broward County School District's PROMISE Program didn't notice this potential. This is the "Collaborative Agreement on School Discipline:
Broward County Promise Program - Fully Executed Collaborative Agreement - Final Document by The Conservative Treehouse on Scribd
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Pay particular attention to page 3 of 33 of this document. It essentially says that students who commit serious, though not felony, crimes, will be treated with kid gloves. It essentially instructed the signatories to this contract to not treat these crimes as law enforcement matters. It said that the school district would handle these things.
Here's a question for Prof. Melis: Should the education system be in charge of administering the juvenile justice system? Or should that responsibility be left to law enforcement?
Posted Sunday, March 4, 2018 8:17 AM
Comment 1 by Chad Q at 04-Mar-18 08:38 AM
A Lot of mass shootings would have been avoided had the existing laws been followed or if information had been submitted or tips followed up on to stop people from getting the guns in the first place.
But then again, it's not about gun control, it's all about control.
Comment 2 by Patrick Mattson at 04-Mar-18 08:52 AM
She said "I started locking my classroom while I teach this week". Wouldn't that be a violation of the fire code? At the very least it's not safe for her students if they need to exit quickly.
