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VA Panel Offers Ideas on School Safety
Gov. Bob McDonnell's task force tells General Assembly more money for school resource officers, tougher gun penalties would help.
By Blake Belden, Capital News Service Gov. Bob McDonnell is urging state legislators to approve recommendations from his School and Campus Safety Task Force that would increase sentences for illegally buying guns, require mandatory lockdown drills at schools and establish more comprehensive suicide prevention programs, among other suggestions. McDonnell sent the General Assembly a letter outlining initial recommendations from the panel, which the governor established in the wake of December’s school shootings in Newtown, Conn., where a gunman killed 26 people, including 20 children. In the letter, McDonnell highlighted those recommendations he wants legislators to give the "most priority": 10 of them involve public safety (including …
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Don Joy
10:18 am on Monday, January 7, 2013
Hmmm, by your logic, armed guards protecting politicians, government buildings, banks, sporting events, and so forth are all a bad idea, right? more ›