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In reply to the discussion: NRA's New Ad Calls Obama "Elitist Hypocrite" For Having Secret Service Protection For His Children [View all]SemperEadem
(8,053 posts)should we each have an armed guard assigned to us? What about the Newtown shooter's mother?? She didn't have an armed guard guarding her in her home while she slept; or the woman who strapped sidearms to her to provoke other parents when she attended her kid's soccer games and was shot dead by her husband in a murder suicide? Her husband was a parole officer--he sure didn't protect her--he killed her.
Threats to the president and his family on a daily basis far exceed threats to the average Joe's children by a factor of 1000. Tragedies do happen and they are unfortunate; however, advancing the notion of putting armed guards every 10 feet without any talk about how they're going to be adequately compensated for their time--because no one works for free--is stupidity.
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