Above, my screen shot of The Washington Post's website Saturday night, December 22nd, 2012, completely surrounded by the marketing efforts of a group that calls itself "Mayors Against Illegal Guns Action Fund." Nope, I'd never heard of them before, either. They probably don't call what they're doing above capitalizing on a tragedy, but rather taking advantage of a crisis. And we all know how
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That curious anti-gun marketing effort on the Washington Post's website this weekend: Why do they call it "Mayors Against Illegal Guns Action Fund" when it's really NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg and 7 other very affluent non-mayors funding it, albeit mostly Bloomberg?; Laurel Bentley, Eli Board, Ann Hawkins, Judi Krupp, Henry Lord, Helen Raiser, Brad Reiss;
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Cold facts on school violence & security, the subject the N.Y. Times has largely ignored for years; John Solomon & Kimberly Dvorak detail Obama & Congress' hypocrisy: Pre-Sandy Hook shooting, Obama "administration eliminated emergency preparedness program, let school violence prevention programs lapse"; At Broward Beat, intense debate ensues on the role of (or absence of) SROs at Broward County schools and who should be paying for them
I actually read this Washington Guardian piece early Saturday morning and have been waiting patiently to see something on this topic elsewhere, ideally, at a South Florida-centric news website or blog, or a decent segment on TV with some real depth.
Nope, it seems that few want to actually deal with the actual nuts and bolts of school security and the source of funding, they just prefer
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