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In addition to bulletproof whiteboards, some U.S. schools are weighing the benefits of adopting uniforms lined with ballistic material that can stop a 9 mm bullet traveling at 400 meters per second.
Posted on Apr 26, 2013
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What happens when you put police-minded people in charge of schools? Officials take ideas like “bulletproof whiteboards” seriously.
Posted on Apr 25, 2013
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Upon Gov. Dennis Daugaard’s signing of a law Friday, South Dakota appears to be the first state to allow teachers to carry guns in the classroom.
Posted on Mar 8, 2013
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Truthdig Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer and the other panelists discuss the NRA’s call for armed security at schools, violent media’s relationship to gun violence and the push for new gun control legislation on this week’s “Left, Right & Center.”
Posted on Dec 21, 2012
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By Henry A. Giroux, Truthout —
It is ironic, in the unfolding nightmare in Newtown, Conn., that only in the midst of tragedy are teachers celebrated in ways that acknowledge the vital role they play every day in both protecting and educating our children. What is repressed in these moments is that teachers have been under attack by right-wing conservatives, religious fundamentalists and centrist Democrats since the beginning of the 1980s.
Posted on Dec 18, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including the death of one the longest serving U.S. senators and an update on negotiations to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff.
Posted on Dec 17, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — The horror in Newtown, Conn., should shake us out of the cowardice, the fear, the evasion and the opportunism that prevent our political system from acting to curb gun violence.
Posted on Dec 17, 2012
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Oregon state Rep. Dennis Richardson sent an email the day of the Connecticut massacre explaining how most of the kids who were killed that day “would still be alive” if he had been a principal or a teacher at the school.
Posted on Dec 17, 2012
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Some Democrats have publicly advocated for tighter gun control laws in the aftermath of Friday’s shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., that left 20 children and eight adults dead. But according to Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, the way to prevent such massacres from happening is to have more Americans carry firearms.
Posted on Dec 16, 2012
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By Bill Blum — As a result of a grotesque confluence of cultural iconography celebrating the virtues of an armed citizenry, political cowardice in the face of pro-gun lobbies like the NRA, and a judiciary that has redefined the meaning of the Second Amendment, we have become a nation bereft of effective gun control, reduced to waiting for the next firearm fueled massacre.
Posted on Dec 16, 2012
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By Juan Cole — Why do U.S. cable news networks intensively cover these mass shootings, making it the only story for a day or two and prying into every detail of them, when they aren’t interested in preventing them from happening again through banning semiautomatic weapons?
Posted on Dec 16, 2012
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AP/Newtown Bee, Shannon Hicks
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By Marian Wright Edelman —
Once again we are faced with unspeakable horror from gun violence and once again we are reminded that there is no safe harbor for our children. How young do the victims have to be and how many children need to die before we stop the proliferation of guns in our nation and the killing of innocents?
Posted on Dec 16, 2012
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Truthdig Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer and the “Left, Right & Center” crew discuss the horrific school shooting in Connecticut, U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice’s withdrawal from consideration for the top slot in the State Department, Michigan’s new status as a right-to-work state and more.
Posted on Dec 14, 2012
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How does one explain the massacre of 20 children at a school in Connecticut? Madness? A society that values gun rights ahead of human life? No. The answer, according to former Arkansas governor and Fox News commentator Mike Huckabee, is the secularization of schools.
Posted on Dec 14, 2012
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Olle Johansson, Sweden —
Posted on Apr 3, 2012
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