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Locking the barn door

Or, maybe, I should say the garage door. Anyhow, this move of the Newtown school district to put an armed guard in their devastated school is better late than never I suppose.

I was interested to see that the guard is called a “school resource officer,” which I suppose besides being typical government-speak is intended not to rattle the easily upset. And Barry’s magic wand order a few weeks ago talked about funding “school resource officers” which I didn’t understand at the time. So even King Putz is backing the NRA idea that he and his party decried. Whatever.

This will be a subject for the Texas Legislature this session which just opened here in Lefty town, the only such in Texas. I still think it would be simpler to a) remove those stupid “gun free zone” signs that are invitations to the deranged and b) train and arm a teacher or administrator to be the guard. But it’s good to hear something besides idiot arguments about disarming the law-abiding.