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Friday, January 25, 2013

Panel Bashes Idea of Armed Guards in Bergen County Schools

Mahwah hosted a County School Boards Association panel discussion Thursday night where law enforcement and school officials made security suggestions for local schools

Armed guards are definitely not the solution to school safety questions brought up after the Newtown school shooting, but there are other measures school districts in Bergen County could be taking to make schools safer. That was the message of a panel of local law enforcement and school officials who commented on school safety concerns to a group of about 150 school board representatives at a special Bergen County School Boards meeting at Mahwah High School Thursday night. “In Mahwah, we are very opposed to having armed guards in schools,” Mahwah Police Chief James Batelli, a member of the panel - which also included the chiefs of the Hackensack, Hillsdale and Dumont departments, the Superintendent of the Dumont School District, and the …

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Police Release Names of 20 Children, Six Adults Killed in Connecticut, Mahwah High School (in Mahwah Patch), Mahwah Police Department (in Mahwah Patch), and 1 more ›

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Keith Kaplan

12:02 pm on Monday, January 28, 2013

Some are advocates of this type of programming: http://www.npr.org/2012/10/11/162712905/to-survive-a-shooting-students-learn-to-fight-back   more ›

Monday, December 17, 2012

High-Capacity Ammo Magazines Should Be Banned, Senator Says

U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg will ask Congress to approve a ban on ammunition magazines of more than 10 rounds. Do you agree with his proposed bill?

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  • Monday, December 17, 2012

In the wake of the mass shooting in Newtown, Conn., U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) announced plans to reintroduce high-capacity magazine ban legislation in the 113th Congress. Lautenberg’s bill, the Large Capacity Ammunition Feeding Device Act, would prohibit the manufacture and sale of ammunition magazines with a capacity of more than 10 rounds. It also would ban ammunition magazines that could be readily converted to accept more than 10 rounds. “In light of yet another horrific shooting tragedy, it is clearer than ever that there is no place in our communities for deadly high-capacity gun magazines and I will keep working to pass my bill to reinstate the ban on them,” Lautenberg said in a statement. “If we don't pass a high-capacity …

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Police Release Names of 20 Children, Six Adults Killed in Newtown (in Newtown Patch) and Newtown After Obama's Visit: 'My Heart is Hurting More' (in Newtown Patch)

Adam

4:29 pm on Thursday, December 27, 2012

It seems like a lot of folks buy assault type weapons in order to guard against an oppressive government. Just understand that in Iraq during the 1980's, 1990's and currently, just about everybody had a weapon, including AK47's, and there were 26 Gun Shops open and doing a brisk business in Baghdad. All of these weapons did not prevent an oppressive government under Sadam Houssain, or prevent a …   more ›

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