Mmm yep!

[layoutshooter]

It's OKEE DOKEE to trash the Constitution. It's OKEE DOKEE to DEMAND Federal Money be spent. It would seem, that in Newtown, that it is NOT OKEE DOKEE to look out after you own kids with your own resources. Me thinks me sees just a tad of hypocrisy here.

It would seem that school safety just may not be such a major priority for them.

[h=1]Newtown residents reject more funding for school security[/h]

Hmm:

Residents have rejected a budget that included money for extra school security in the wake of the December school shootings, with town leaders suggesting the spending and required tax increases were a hard sell.


Voters on Tuesday turned down the $72 million school budget by 482 votes and rejected the $39 million towngovernment budget by 62 votes. Nearly 4,500 residents voted on the plans, which would have represented an increase of more than 5 percent next fiscal year.


First Selectwoman Patricia Llodra said the killings of 20 children and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary Schoolhad an impact on the vote, the first since the massacre.

"We're very fragile as a community," she said. "We've lost some of our confidence."

Officials had put an extra $770,000 in the school and town budgets to hire extra police officers and unarmed security guards in each of Newtown's public and private schools. The plan was spurred by the Dec. 14 shootings.


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Some may be willing to give up liberty for security, but apparently the majority are aren't willing to part with more of their hard-earned tax dollars.

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Newtown residents reject more funding for school security

 

[zorry]

Money's tight. This may have made them cut some personal spending habits like movie channels where they can hear the F word.

 

[LDB]

Officials had put an extra $770,000 in the school and town budgets to hire extra police officers and unarmed security guards

Maybe they just thought it too liberal and foolish to have unarmed guards and rejected the plan due to that stupid idea.

 

[davekc]

CT taxes are some of the highest in the nation. They would be better served to take volunteer teachers and train them with firearms. Certainly wouldn't cost $770,000 to do it.

 

[layoutshooter]

CT taxes are some of the highest in the nation. They would be better served to take volunteer teachers and train them with firearms. Certainly wouldn't cost $770,000 to do it.

It never was about keeping their children safe, this PROVES it. It was all a show. CT LIKES high taxes, or they would not have them. CT does not care about keeping schools safe, or they would.

 

[davekc]

I think they care, it is just cheaper to infringe on a constitutional right than to do it the proper way.

 

[layoutshooter]

I think they care, it is just cheaper to infringe on a constitutional right than to do it the proper way.

You give them FAR more credit than I do. To me it seems it was just a show. IF there children WERE that important to them, they would take care of it. Actions say it all. They DON'T really care. It was ONLY about banning guns.

As to "cheaper". The war on drugs has NOT been cheap. Just think what a war on 100 MILLION law abiding citizens would cost, with the same result.

Their children are worth to them what they are willing to spend to protect them. Not much.

 

[RLENT]

It's OKEE DOKEE to trash the Constitution. It's OKEE DOKEE to DEMAND Federal Money be spent. It would seem, that in Newtown, that it is NOT OKEE DOKEE to look out after you own kids with your own resources. Me thinks me sees just a tad of hypocrisy here.

Me thinks that unless you are seeing a vote of no by residents who trashed the Constitution or demanded Federal Money be spent you might be seeing something (even if it's largely of your own creation), but it's probably not hypocrisy ...

It would seem that school safety just may not be such a major priority for them.

It may well be a major priority for them - but it might also be the case that there were other things jammed into the budget that made some unwilling to vote for it ...

(for starters try teacher pay raises and funding for all day kindergarten that they have been fighting over for years apparently )

 

[layoutshooter]

IF the majority of the town placed a value on protecting their kids, they would have. People only pay for what they want too. IF there were "add on's" they could have, and should have, demanded they be taken out. It is, after all, THEIR school system and THEY should be in control. They either are NOT, are not willing to take control, or just don't care.

No matter which, it is THEIR problem, not yours, or mine.