{"id":183610,"date":"2013-01-14T20:06:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T01:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/01\/14\/welcome-to-crazytown-usa-arming-school-janitors-crooks-and-liars\/"},"modified":"2013-01-14T20:06:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T01:06:00","slug":"welcome-to-crazytown-usa-arming-school-janitors-crooks-and-liars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/01\/14\/welcome-to-crazytown-usa-arming-school-janitors-crooks-and-liars\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome To CrazyTown USA: Arming School Janitors | Crooks and Liars"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 300px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/mzfy5.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" bordercolor=\"white\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/mzfy5.jpg\" width=\"290\" \/><\/a><br \/><i>Wasn&#8217;t&nbsp; Groundskeeper Willie Armed in an Episode of the Simpsons?<\/i><\/div>\n<p>Speaking of the stupid burning, how about that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toledoblade.com\/Education\/2013\/01\/10\/Montpelier-school-board-approves-carrying-of-handguns-by-custodial-staff.html\">Montpelier Ohio School Board<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>They have decided to arm their janitors:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The Montpelier Exempted Village Schools Board of Education has approved the carrying of handguns by its custodial staff.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">The 5-0 vote of the board Wednesday night to allow handgun training for four custodians to be able to tote weapons at the K-12 campus at the Williams County school came after last month&#8217;s deadly shooting rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">School officials say that having armed personnel &#8211; believed to be the first for any school system in Ohio &#8211; is designed to thwart incidents of violence and prevent what happened in Newtown, Conn., from occurring here.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8220;Sitting back and doing nothing and hoping it doesn&#8217;t happen to you is just not good policy anymore. There is a need for schools to beef up their security measures,&#8221; Supertendent Jamie Grime told The Blade today. &#8220;Having guns in the hands of the right people are not a hindrance. They are a means to protect.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seriously, this is so stupid that it beggars belief.<\/p>\n<p>The only people who will benefit from this decisions are the gag writers for Letterman, Leno, and <i>the Daily Show<\/i>, along, of course with the writing crew of <i>The Simpsons<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>If they don&#8217;t do a show on arming Groundskeeper Willie now, they need to find a new job. <\/p>\n<p>H\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/john-amato\/welcometo-crazytown-usa-arming-school-j\">Crooks and Liars<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wasn&#8217;t&nbsp; Groundskeeper Willie Armed in an Episode of the Simpsons? Speaking of the stupid burning, how about that Montpelier Ohio School Board? They have decided to arm their janitors: The Montpelier Exempted Village Schools Board of Education has approved the carrying of handguns by its custodial staff. The 5-0 vote of the board Wednesday night &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[968,1055,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-gun-laws","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183610"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}