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To: Brumar89 who wrote (693334)	1/17/2013 10:40:58 AM
From: Peter Dierks	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578303

He even picked up the NRA idea of putting more guards (resource officers) in schools. Obama must have forgotten to apologize for cancelling three programs that funded resource officers for schools. Before he was for it he was against it. .................................................................................................................................................................. Before Connecticut tragedy, administration eliminated emergency preparedness program,let school violence prevention programs lapse Beneath the expressions of grief, sorrow and disbelief over the Connecticut school massacre lies an uneasy truth in Washington: over the last few years the Obama administration and Congress quietly let federal funding for several key school security programs lapse in the name of budget savings. Government officials told the Washington Guardian on Friday night that two Justice Department programs that had provided more than $200 million to schools for training, security equipment and police resources over the last decade weren't renewed in 2011 and 2012, and that a separate program that provided $800 million to put police officers inside the schools ... Message 28606757