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As usual, politicians and their policies can be blamed as well. Obama will
use the tragedy to push for more gun laws, because as we know, criminals
obey laws.
>From Washington
Guardian<http://www.washingtonguardian.com/washingtons-school-security-failure>
:
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 was ended a
few years earlier.
Meanwhile, the administration eliminated funding in 2011-12 for a separate
Education Department program that gave money to schools to prepare for mass
tragedies, the officials said.
A nationally recognized school security expert said those funds had been
critical for years in helping schools continue to enhance protections
against growing threats of violence. But they simply dried up with little
notice as the Columbine and Virginia Tech school shooting tragedies faded
from memory and many Americans and political leaders had their attentions
diverted to elections, a weak economy and overseas dramas.
[...]Leaders in both parties in Washington on Friday expressed remorse and
disbelief in the tragedy in the tiny suburban Connecticut town of Newtown,
where a single 20-year-old gunman walked into the school where his mother
taught and killed 20 children and six others before turning the gun on
himself.
"Our hearts are broken today," President Barack Obama said, wiping a tear
from his eyes as he reacted to the tragedy. "As a country we have been
through this too many times.
"These neighborhoods are our neighborhoods, and these children are our
children. And we're going to have to come together and take meaningful
action to prevent more tragedies like this, regardless of the politics,"
the president added.
But last year, his administration took a less muted tone as it
submitted its 2012
Education Department
budget<http://www2.ed.gov/about/overview/budget/budget12/justifications/g-sss.pdf>
to
Congress that eliminated the Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools
(REMS) funding, which for years provided between $20 million and $30
million in annual grants to help schools create emergency and crisis
preparation and prevention plans for tragedies just like the one that
unfolded Friday.
The Education Department’s Web site says it last made REMS
grants<http://www2.ed.gov/programs/dvpemergencyresponse/performance.html>
in
2011.
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