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Education Secretary Pushes Gun Control: Too Many Students Are Just ‘Trying to Survive, Day to Day’

Jan. 17, 2013 6:00pm
Education Secretary Pushes Gun Control: Too Many Students Are Just Trying to Survive, Day to Day

Education Secretary Arne Duncan, speaks to the Associated Press during an interview in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013. Duncan says it’s tough to prepare students for college when they’re more worried about being killed than making it to graduation. Credit: AP

WASHINGTON (AP) — Education Secretary Arne Duncan says it’s tough to prepare students for college when they’re more worried about being killed than making it to graduation.

Duncan told The Associated Press on Thursday that too many students are, quote, “trying to survive, day to day, wondering if they’re going to make it past 16, 17 and 18.” He says such fears block out the work teachers are trying to do to prepare those students for college.

Duncan, the former head of Chicago’s public schools, was a key adviser for the gun control package the White House released this week following the Connecticut elementary school shootings.

He said those efforts, including 23 executive orders President Barack Obama signed on Wednesday, were a good step. But Duncan added: “This was only a first step.”

 

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  • gz22ll
    Posted on January 17, 2013 at 6:36pm

    How about pushing parenting controls. If you can’t afford to have them don’t. If you can have a stable house with two parents or a support structure/system don’t have them. If you can’t parent or don’t care to don’t have them. I would like to see a break down off shooters/victims by race and family home (single parent/two parents).

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    • michaelmoron
      Posted on January 17, 2013 at 7:14pm

      Now if that isn’t a picture of a “made man” in the INTERNATIONAL BANKSTER CARTEL, I don’t know what is.

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    • michaelmoron
      Posted on January 17, 2013 at 7:19pm

      “Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, ( International Bankster Cartel ) to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of today.”

      ― Theodore Roosevelt

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    • dwilco77
      Posted on January 17, 2013 at 8:25pm

      In the 60′s we had Air raid drills every month because the Russians were going to nuc us. We would sit in the coat racks in the hallway and put our head between our knees, and even at the age of 7, we would joke “and kiss your **** good bye”. Somehow, even with the threat that at any moment we would have the skin burned off our bodies, we survived. The press, and our leaders are the only thing terrorizing our children in this situation. Our children are relatively safe, and with extra security around our schools, they will be even safer. Stop scaring the kids, and use rational solutions, such as armed guards to protect our kids. We have armed guards in many of our buildings. It is not a new, novel approach to dealing with danger.

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    • huufarted
      Posted on January 18, 2013 at 3:04pm

      Someone please explain to Arne Dumke that most kids are too busy texting their naughty bits to study hard…

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  • Outlaw_Josey_Wales
    Posted on January 17, 2013 at 6:36pm

    Because of a gang of punks, I need my gun to survive day to day.

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    • Metallicat
      Posted on January 17, 2013 at 6:51pm

      Just become a “wigger” like the white kids did at my school,the minority gangs might leave you alone and focus on terrorizing the ones who wont comply.

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    • 226crimsontrace
      Posted on January 17, 2013 at 8:07pm

      Students are surviving day to day because they have to eat Mooochele’s food

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  • Thinman
    Posted on January 17, 2013 at 6:36pm

    Where does Obama find these idiots?

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  • kickagrandma
    Posted on January 17, 2013 at 6:32pm

    Wonder what would happen if OUR HOUSE were declared “a gun-free zone”?

    Just a thought….

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  • thegreatcarnac
    Posted on January 17, 2013 at 6:31pm

    Duncan says obama’s 23 EO’s are only a ‘first step’. He has a lot of confidence doesn’t he? Mr. Duncan is typical of almost everyone in the tyranical obama adminsitration. THey are a bunch of smiling Marxist who have been waiting for this day. I will not comply with them. I will not obey them. This day is going to be ours….not theirs. Obama is an evil tyrant who we must resist to the upmost.

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  • Youngamericangirl
    Posted on January 17, 2013 at 6:30pm

    Hmmm. I’m a 17 student who is quite frankly not worried about being killed by a gun. Sure, I know it could happen but I get more scared getting into my car and driving behind people who shouldn’t have a drivers license than getting killed. And I can say that high school kids are not thinking about getting shot all that time. Or even at all. At least not where I live

    So who the heck is this guy speaking for? Would it be those Chicago kids who live in a big city that already has some of those strictest gun laws in the country, yet still have to worry about being shot just by walking home from school?

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    • mtsnj
      Posted on January 17, 2013 at 6:41pm

      Nice to hear from an intelligent 17y/o, exactly, how about better parental control over their children’s lives. This guy needs to not look much further than his broken down educational system. Pandering to the stupid and dumbing down his curriculum is really not going to make for a smart country. You couldn’t be more right, We have a criminal problem, how about going after criminals you know where they hang out…go bust some heads.

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    • Youngamericangirl
      Posted on January 17, 2013 at 7:02pm

      @MTSNJ

      Thank you. And I completely agree with everything you said. I understand that if someone has evil intent, they will use any tool that they can find. They can make all the laws they want, criminals don’t follow laws. The only way to eliminate gun crime all together is to magically make every gun disappear like it was never created, and that’s never going to happen.

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    • banjarmon
      Posted on January 17, 2013 at 7:56pm

      YOU Go GIRL!! Stand strong in your beliefs!! God bless!

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  • B-Neil
    Posted on January 17, 2013 at 6:28pm

    What we need to do is BAN the Secretary of Education and the Department of Education. That Department is nothng more then a PROPAGADA mill; to distroy the American way of life in favor of a one WORLD ORDER , bent on creating a totalitarian agenda. Using kids is a pratice they have excelled in at all levels of there determinations. Old I may be; Old enough to last for a few moments of freedoms defence.

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    • ranepowel
      Posted on January 17, 2013 at 6:36pm

      I still don’t get why a universal, whole-world government is such a bad thing. I welcome the day we don’t have anymore countries and just have a universal system of government for all people, the world over.

      That’s why I vote for, anyway.

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    • michaelmoron
      Posted on January 17, 2013 at 6:38pm

      One World Order ?

      Here is one of those Conspiracy Theorists:

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc7i0wCFf8g

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    • missdagnytaggart
      Posted on January 17, 2013 at 7:03pm

      A one world government won’t be based on democracy or free enterprise, it will be socialist at best. I can see why a commie like you would be into something like that though, Rane.

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    • michaelmoron
      Posted on January 17, 2013 at 7:04pm

      @INSANERANE.

      Globalists are TRAITORS of AMERICA !!!!
      Especially those in PUBLIC OFFICE !!!!!

      WE the PEOPLE MUST DEMAND GLOBALISTS LEAVE OFFICE !!!!

      They took an Oath to UPHOLD the Constitution and REPRESENT the AMERICAN PEOPLE !!!!

      They did NOT take an OATH to the U.N. Charter and the People of the WORLD !!!!!

      Either you respect our Country’s Sovereignty and OUR LAWS (The Constitution)
      Or you ARE not WELCOME HERE !!!!!

      QUIT THE U.N. And cast them from our SHORES !!!!!!

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    • AvengerK
      Posted on January 17, 2013 at 7:05pm

      Well here’s one reason why RAVINGLUNATICPOWELL…..

      Obama’s Czar of Science John Holdren..a denizen of the academic left and like you..believes he knows what’s best for everyone.

      In his book Ecoscience he writes:

      “Such a comprehensive Planetary Regime could control the development, administration, conservation, and distribution of all natural resources, renewable or nonrenewable…The Planetary Regime might be given responsibility for determining the optimum population for the world.”

      And how does your beloved Johnny plan to control the “optimum population for the world”?

      “All the children who are born, beyond what would be required to keep up the population to a desired level, must necessarily perish, unless room be made for them by the death of grown persons.”

      Now being an admitted stoner RAVINGLUNATICPOWELL..I’ll have to dumb that down for you. Holdren wants your beloved one world government to determine who lives or dies by either forcing women to be sterilized or have their children aborted, or “the death of grown persons”.

      Youknow what’s truly sickening about you RAVINGLUNATICPOWELL? It’s not your blind devotion to liberalism. It’s not your juvenile quips. It’s not your forced piety. It’s that elitist posture you take while your posts drip with condescencion as if you’re the smartest person in the room when in reality you’re a cretinous, hopelessly indoctrinated, doped up dullard. If you were in my proximity I’d

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    • michaelmoron
      Posted on January 17, 2013 at 7:12pm

      This Education Clown is just another Bankster factotum. Washington is full of them.

      Probably another attorney that knows America was seized by the Federal Reserve Private Bank
      and eventually sold to investors.

      Another slimeball that know the United States is a Private Corporation that is getting ready to be governed and managed by the Bankster’s United Nations.

      He knows Americans won’t stand up to an invasion by foreign enemies (NATO) with 7-shot semi-autos.
      This dirtbag knows that Americans possessing assault weapons would defeat a NATO invasion.

      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

      The Bankruptcy of The United States United States Congressional Record, March 17, 1993 Vol. 33, page H-1303 The Speaker is Rep. James Traficant, Jr. (Ohio) addressing the House:

      “Mr. Speaker, we are here now in chapter 11… Members of Congress areofficial trustees presiding over the greatest reorganization of anyBankrupt entity in world history, the U.S. Government. We are setting forth hopefully, ablueprint for our future. There are some who say it is a coroner’s report that will lead to our demise.It is an established fact that the United States Federal Government has been dissolved by the Emergency Banking Act, March 9, 1933, 48Stat. 1, Public Law 89-719; declared by President Roosevelt, being bankrupt and insolvent.”

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    • Metallicat
      Posted on January 17, 2013 at 7:17pm

      @Avengerk
      Your observation deserves much more than a “like”. It deserves applause. Almost as epic as the episode of “Family guy” where Quagmire ripped into Brian for being a liberal DB.

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    • AvengerK
      Posted on January 17, 2013 at 7:19pm

      Oh my last line was too good to get cut off RAVINGLUNATICPOWELL…

      You’re so sickeningly insipid in your elistist prattle that if you were in my proximity I’d vomit on you. Surely an admitted stoner like you would be quite familiar with wretching and vomit?

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    • Zipit
      Posted on January 17, 2013 at 7:26pm

      RANE! Two things! 1. You won’t be alive to see it…….. And
      2. You drive a PRIUS!!!!! BWA….HAHAHAHAHA

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  • BenFrank1791
    Posted on January 17, 2013 at 6:27pm

    So I guess they won’t be bring back my old High School trap club anytime soon.

    Funny we had guns in school in the late 70′s. In fact the High school I went to helped buy our shotguns. We reloaded after school in our History teachers classroom. And all the while about half the High school at the time was “High” (Not our trap club BTW)
    Question : In the mid to late 70′s we had guns and drugs in school, yet no one got shot. I wonder why? Now guns and drugs are out of our High schools and we see more school shootings. HMMMM
    Jokes aside, Hyper safety has failed as a school policy. Its all about posing, We should do away with this hack job” Education Secretary”. I am not sure but I would bet someone smoking pot in the 70′s came up with that idea for a job . ;-)

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    • Lt_Scrounge
      Posted on January 17, 2013 at 9:25pm

      The Israelis have armed their teachers since the early 70s and the PLO stopped attacking the schools soon thereafter. In fact Israel hasn’t had a mass shooting in their schools since 1974.

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  • billo
    Posted on January 17, 2013 at 6:25pm

    Arne Duncan looks a lot like an incompetent, marxist Herman Munster.

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  • tonypro
    Posted on January 17, 2013 at 6:24pm

    Guess they feel they need more support, fake or otherwise to help with the agenda.

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  • RamonPreston
    Posted on January 17, 2013 at 6:24pm

    The people with armed body guards are going to take the guns away from the rest of us.

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  • team1blazer
    Posted on January 17, 2013 at 6:23pm

    Yeah, in Chicago, where this radical socialist was in charge of “education” (more like indoctrination), I’m sure a lot of the kids were more worried about staying alive than graduating. That is because Chicago has some of the strictest gun control laws in the nation….and the highest violent crime rates. So why on earth would the rest of the country want to follow that model?

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  • Metallicat
    Posted on January 17, 2013 at 6:19pm

    what a load of BS. That fear will remain for children in schools with or without guns. In my day you went to school everyday in fear of being stabbed or jumped and pummeled by a group of minority “students” who werent there to learn,just sent there to be out of moms ****. That is why many kids in inner cities started arming themselves just to walk to school,sometimes armed by their own parents. the minorities are ganging up,and the white kids are arming themselves. the teachers point their fingers at whitey and blame him for everything,and he comes to school in fear of his life,expecting the eventual confrontation,if hes not part of the “white guilt culture” at his school.

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  • wordsofwisdom
    Posted on January 17, 2013 at 6:19pm

    It’s people like this, that are helping to push us over the cliff. Without a bit of thought for the freedom they are so willing to give up just to help Obama! They make me think we are about to self destruct! Which leads me to believe we are about to enter the last days of normal life. This song is called “The End Times” http://youtu.be/vgDkznPS4zI
    You never know for sure now do you?

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  • FISH_BONE
    Posted on January 17, 2013 at 6:17pm

    “Duncan, the former head of Chicago’s public schools,” Enough said. End of story.

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  • FISH_BONE
    Posted on January 17, 2013 at 6:17pm

    Providing nut jobs easy access to their sitting targets in gun free zones should help all students feel safer and more secure in the class room.

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  • justangry
    Posted on January 17, 2013 at 6:16pm

    And taking away their RIGHT to protect themselves is the best way to fix it… .Sigh.

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  • neverending
    Posted on January 17, 2013 at 6:15pm

    Knew it wouldn’t be very long before we heard from this commie. He wants to start kids in school at the age of 3, extend the hours and the days. Guess he doesn’t have enough control yet witht he dept of indoctrination.

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  • barber2
    Posted on January 17, 2013 at 6:13pm

    Duncan is just another inept Chicago radical draining the taxpayers’ wallets and getting no results. Some of these ” poor students” are the very gang members who are killing each other . Maybe the Chicago radicals should try to fix Chicago’s educational system and murder rate before they tell us how to fix America. Why should we listen to these Chicago losers ?

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    • YAHSHUARULES
      Posted on January 17, 2013 at 6:16pm

      Do you know who the Fabians (with logo of wolf in sheep’s clothing); SDS,
      Frankfurt School and Willi Munzenberg, Herbert Markusa and Franz Noima; John
      Dewey, Antonio Gramsci, Mattechine Society, Saul Alinski (who dedicated his
      book which Obama taught for years in Chicago “Rules for Radicals” to Lucifer)
      was a disciple of Gramsci used to train at the rifle range with Leon Despres
      preparing for the revolution to take down America, later became a mentor to
      Obama and.Committees of Correspondence are? Connect all the dots that

      allowed Obama to waltz into the White House..

      https://vimeo.com/52009124

      All part of the Agenda to create an America so corrupt it stinks; use public policy to subvert America from inside, infiltrate and influence our culture to break down basic rules of morality driving us in a direction designed to destroy us. . No conspiracy – just verifiable facts! If you don’t know all thisyou need to find out!

      This is the most comprehensive, best movie I have seen pulling all this together. I have watched it 12X to absorb all that is in it…

      give it 5 minutes and you won’t be able to walk away

      Watch it. Share it. Arrange a showing in church, groups, clubs, with friends or family. Everyone who loves America needs to see this movie,

      It is free on line for the moment

      https://vimeo.com/52009124
      If America goes down, the free world will go down with it and it will be finished for a very, very long time…

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  • IMCHRISTIAN
    Posted on January 17, 2013 at 6:10pm

    What do you think the rest of us are afraid of ? Yes, that we could have nothing to keep our whole family safe. Your parents would be so proud (not). We have a AJ that sure can’t keep track of Guns. Anything to cause trouble for all and not justice and freedom for all. “Life is a Gift, Freedom is Responsiblities”

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  • rickroland
    Posted on January 17, 2013 at 6:10pm

    His statement is a load of crap.

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  • jmc610
    Posted on January 17, 2013 at 6:10pm

    If 23 executive orders are a FIRST STEP, we are in trouble!

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    • YAHSHUARULES
      Posted on January 17, 2013 at 6:18pm

      This is all I need to know about gun control: our FOUNDERS were FOR RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS – TYRANTS AND DESPOTS Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Obama ARE AGAINST. I don’t own a gun, don’t want a gun – but I darn sure want every law abiding citizen to be able to fully exercise their right to bear arms as guaranteed by the Constitution.

      The left has an agenda to drive this culture in a direction designed to destroy it. Gun control is just one of their weapons. The cadre of intellectuals that have trained Gramsci shock troops of teachers and media hacks to take this which was a Judeo/Chrsitan culture down from within…
      got one question for anyone on this blog – do you know who Fabians (with logo of wolf in sheep’s clothing), SDS, Frankfurt School and Willi Munzenberg, John Dewey , Antonio Gramsci, Mattechine Society, Alinksi (who dedicated his book “Rules for Radicals to Lucifer), which Obama taught in Chicago for years, Committees of Correspondence are? Connect all the dots that allowed Obama to waltz into the White House…

      If you have not seen this – you need to watch and share with everyone you know:
      This is the most comprehensive, best movie I have seen pulling all this together. I have watched it 12X to absorb all that is in it…

      give it 5 minutes and you won’t be able to walk away

      Watch it. Share it. Arrange a showing in church, groups, clubs, with friends or family. Everyone who loves America needs to see this movie,

      It is free on line for the moment

      https

      Report this comment

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  • toiletclogga
    Posted on January 17, 2013 at 6:05pm

    Drama queen!

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  • kickagrandma
    Posted on January 17, 2013 at 6:05pm

    He’s so full of b.s.

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  • civilwarcometh
    Posted on January 17, 2013 at 6:03pm

    I really hate this pedophile….

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