Gallup: More support putting gun in every school than support gun ban
Sixty-four percent of the country say "having at least one school official at every school carry a gun" will prevent mass shootings. Sixty-three percent believe the same of "banning the sale of assault and semi-automatic guns."
That means Barack Obama is about to lead his party into a disastrous 2014 defeat.
That's because that 63 percent support for a semi-automatic gun ban collapses when voters learn just what exactly a semi-auto gun ban is -- and you'd better believe they'll be told on TV, radio and in the mail during the 2014 election.
Gallup finds support for a semi-auto handgun ban falls sharply to 52 percent when people are told a semi-automatic handgun is one "which automatically re-load(s) every time the trigger is pulled." Putting one simple fact in front of a voter suddenly removes any mandate for a semi-auto ban.
Additionally, only 52 percent support for an issue at its most emotional time is a recipe for defeat for any politician who signs on, especially given the fact the poll is of all adults and not just active voters -- who are more pro-gun than the general public.
It gets worse for gun grabbers. Gallup finds only 27 percent of Americans support a "a nationwide ban on the sale of handguns, except to law enforcement officers," which is what a ban on the sale of semi-automatic handguns practically is. An astonishing 71 percent of the general public opposes such a handgun ban.
Backing that up is a CBS News poll conducted in the height of emotion after the incident. It found only 26 percent believed stricter gun laws would helped prevent the tragedy. Further smacking down Obama, half said stricter laws would have had no effect.
Americans believe more guns stop crime, not less. If Obama continues to callously exploit dead children to push a radical agenda he'll find more, not less, defeated Democrats.
Liberals compare school reformers to Newtown killer, suggest healing by uniting against school choice
Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education and teachers union activist Diane Ravitch started the disgusting spree by declaring the process of emotional healing in Newtown Conn. can begin by uniting the community against school reformers.
"Newtown does not need a charter school. What it needs now is healing. Not competition, not division, but a community coming together to help one another. Together. Not competing," writes Ravitch.
The deranged Ravitch then insinuated that tying tenure and teacher pay to performance is somehow related to the massacre.
"Oh, and one other thing, all these dedicated teachers belonged to a union. The senior teachers had tenure, despite the fact that 'reformers' (led by ConnCAN, StudentsFirst, and hedge fund managers) did their best last spring to diminish their tenure and to tie their evaluations to test scores," Ravitch wrote.
Ravitch is no nameless fringe character. She is a Research Professor of Education at New York University. "In 2010, the National Education Association selected her as its 'Friend of Education,'" she states in her biography.
Shockingly her depraved behavior was celebrated, not criticized, by school union bosses. Karen Lewis, head of the Chicago Teachers Union, went so far as to commend Ravitch for politicizing the tragedy and even declared advocates of school choice are child killers themselves.
"There might have been a time where 'politicizing' tragic events, especially mass shootings was thought to be in poor taste. That has changed with the 24/7 news cycle that continues to focus far too much time and energy on the perpetrator of the massacre than that of our precious victims. (Teach for America vice president David) Rosenberg’s 'false outrage' needs to be checked. That same false outrage should show itself when policies his colleagues support kill and disenfranchise children from schools across this nation," rambled Lewis*.
The head of the Chicago Teachers Union just said charter school teachers are themselves mass child killers.
Both need to apologize, and be closely watched.
* That was her statement as written in her capacity as Chicago's top education union official, including punctuation errors and improper use of phrases.
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