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No sane person wants more school shootings. This is true no matter where someone falls on the political spectrum, although the mainstream media often implies otherwise.

Despite being smeared by activists like David Hogg as monsters who don’t care what happens to children, the reality is that conservatives and gun owners alike are fed up with these types of tragedies… and they simply want to find solutions that don’t involve tearing up self-defense rights or the Constitution in the process.

Greg Abbott fits into that category. The Republican governor of Texas is a supporter of Second Amendment rights, but like most of America was deeply impacted when the Santa Fe High School shooting occurred in his state in May.

On Wednesday, the governor unveiled his security plan to help minimize these tragedies, and it includes some innovative solutions to safeguard students while keeping American rights intact.

One of those unique proposals calls for police officers to spend more time at schools during their shifts. As anybody who has ever gone on a ride-along with police knows, cops spend a significant amount of time filling out paperwork and completing reports while on duty — and Abbott wants to use that on-duty “slow time” as an advantage.

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“This includes having officers use schools as a stop for ‘breaks, lunch, or to file reports,’” Breitbart News reported.

“Abbott’s plan also asks schools ‘to provide office space for a local or state law enforcement official to work from.’ He is asking the state to consider grants to help school’s offset the cost of providing such space and accommodating a great law enforcement presence,” the news outlet continued.

It’s a smart solution, and one that would put more uniformed police near schools with fairly minimal costs, at least compared to having districts hire countless more officers.

The governor is also keen on putting trained, vetted security professionals to work to help protect kids. Retired police officers and qualified veterans would become part of an overall safety strategy.

“Texas public schools are permitted to hire any person who is a licensed peace officer to provide campus security. Texas retired and off-duty peace officers already have extensive firearms and emergency response training, and many would be willing and able to protect Texas campuses,” Abbott’s proposal explained.

“In addition, the state should create a pathway for our veterans – many of whom have extensive firearm training – to help protect our schools through a modified school marshal program that ensures they have the appropriate training to transition their expertise into the campus environment,” the governor continued.

“Veterans who complete tailored training and background checks should have the ability to once again serve their communities in times of need,” he wrote.

The governor is also open to arming teachers. According to Breitbart, around 170 of Texas’ 1,000 school districts — or 17 percent — allow school staff members to be legally armed. Abbott would like to increase those numbers.

Recent events have shown that armed civilians can make a difference in an emergency scenario. Just last week, two legally armed citizens stopped a mass shooter in Oklahoma City, after the criminal entered a restaurant.

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Juan Carlos Nazario, 35, and 39-year-old Bryan Whittle ran back to their vehicles to retrieve their firearms in order to stop the rampage, because the restaurant was considered a “gun free zone.” Apparently that sign didn’t stop the murderous criminal, but the armed citizens did stop him.

Crime will never disappear, but it can be dramatically reduced. Staging “die-ins” on supermarket floors while holding a megaphone like Hogg is not the answer, however.

Putting brave, prepared and properly equipped officers and civilians in the right positions will make a difference — and it’s about time that someone like the Texas governor said so.

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NEW YORK — Legendary stand-up comic Jackie Mason contended that in the age of progressive activism seemingly targeting the right-wing, comedians are “fearful of every word we say” out of concern that comments can “somehow be connected to something that sounds conservative.”

Mason contended that there is a double standard between the way the entertainment industry approaches liberal comedians and those who espouse any conservative views, especially comedy figures who appear to support President Donald Trump.

“Roseanne Barr is thrown out immediately because she supports Trump,” Mason argued. “But if you are a leftist lowlife you can say or do whatever you want.”

Mason was speaking in a pre-taped interview scheduled to air on this reporter’s Sunday night talk radio program, “Aaron Klein Investigative Radio.”

Regarding ABC’s swift firing of Barr following her racist Twitter remark, Mason stated: “Let’s be honest about it. If she was in favor of Trump, do you think they would kick her out at all? As soon as she said, ‘I like Trump’, they wanted her to drop dead. If she has a job, 10-minutes later she’s not working.”

Mason, however, did not have many kind words for Barr, taking issue with some of the comedian’s past support for the Occupy movement and for the 9/11 truther conspiracy in addition to numerous other controversial remarks and views. “She pretends she is a conservative because that is how they pay her on the show,” Mason claimed.

Still, while panning her remarks, Mason questioned why Barr was so quickly fired despite an apology as opposed to liberal comedians who committed similar offenses, like Joy Behar’s mocking of Vice President Mike Pence over his religious convictions. Behar waited several weeks before finally apologizing in that case.

And Mason sounded off about the continued backing for TBS talk show host and comedian Samantha Bee, who called Ivanka Trump a “feckless c—” during a segment on her show and issued an apology after the comments sparked an outcry.

“Not only does Samantha Bee still have a job, she is being celebrated all over the country because she apologized,” he said.

Mason quipped that “this yenta” – referring to Bee – “has about as much talent as a shoehorn.”

“She deserves to be on the air like I deserve to be in charge of the plumbing in your building,” he added.

Mason said comedians need to restrict themselves when it comes to espousing conservative views:

It has not only gone insane, but we are restricted with every word we say, and every comedian is fearful of saying the wrong word because it can somehow be connected to something that sounds conservative. Or they can be accused of all sorts of things. You don’t know what to say or where to go.

Because if they find out that there is one conservative. Even if he is in the audience. A conservative is not allowed to be in any part of the building during a comedy show. Even when they put up the building, if they find out the people working in the plumbing department are conservative he will be thrown out.  Otherwise you will install a conservative toilet.

Aaron Klein is Breitbart’s Jerusalem bureau chief and senior investigative reporter. He is a New York Times bestselling author and hosts the popular weekend talk radio program, “Aaron Klein Investigative Radio.” Follow him on Twitter @AaronKleinShow. Follow him on Facebook.

A new report quotes MSNBC staffers who are upset with the network’s casual dismissal of Joy Reid’s growing pile of controversial writings — that management won’t come clean about the “joke” claim that the blog was hacked, that more and more topics are becoming too awkward for Reid to discuss, and that the channel’s credibility is taking a big hit.

From The Daily Beast:

The network‘s failure to address that dubious hacking claim has irked many inside 30 Rockefeller Plaza. Several employees who spoke to The Daily Beast—on condition of anonymity so as not to jeopardize their employment—said they were largely unimpressed with the statements, noting that many questions remain conspicuously unanswered.

“Everyone in the building is laughing at the idea that it was a hacker,” one MSNBC staffer told The Daily Beast.

“It’s just a joke,” said another employee.

…

While Reid is well-liked and respected by colleagues, said one staffer, they are waiting for Reid and MSNBC management to demonstrate a sense of accountability for her inconvenient past writing beyond boilerplate apologies. “It’s very problematic,” said an MSNBC insider.

Particularly, many LGBT staffers at the network expressed feeling insulted by how Reid seemingly suffered no consequences for her old homophobic blog posts or transphobic tweets.

Read the rest of the story here.

As next month’s elections in Mexico approach, a disturbing trend continues with the government’s inability to provide basic security for politicians as the number of those assassinated exceeds 100.

According to statistics compiled by Mexico City-based Etellekt and local media, there were 11 candidates murdered per month from September 8 to May 26, 2018. The updated report indicates that in the last three months, there were three attacks per day related to the electoral process nationwide.

The most recent attack not covered in this report involves the case of Rodrigo Salado, a PRI (Partido Revolucionario Institucional) candidate for alderman in the municipality of San Marcos in Costa Chica de Guerrero, who was murdered by three gunmen who opened fire at the vehicle Salado was traveling in. They were able to flee and remain unidentified.

At least 103 politicians were murdered since the start of the electoral process (including pre-campaigns) and another 112 received threats. In 67 percent of the killings, the victims were attacked by gunmen who specifically targeted them. In 16 percent, victims were found with signs of torture or other methods of extreme violence. Roughly 83 percent of victims were executed with characteristics commonly associated with organized crime hits.

Between September 8, 2017, and May 26 of this year, there were 313 attacks against politicians (an average of three per day), and 44 attacks against family members with a total of 46 relatives murdered. Seventy-two percent of the attacks were directed at opposition politicians, mainly in the central and southern states of the country.

Preparation for the current election cycle began the first week of August 2017 with filing deadlines. The official start of the election process took place on September 8, 2017, with the publication of the electoral calendar.

The election will take place on July 1, 2018, when Mexico elects a new president, 128 senators, 500 federal deputies, and an additional 2,818 local authorities—the largest cumulative ballot in history.

The violence against political figures during the pre- and campaigns is attributed to an attempt by organized crime to influence the elections. In early May, it was reported locally that at least 1,000 federal and local hopefuls resigned their candidacies citing fears of violence.

At the end of 2017, Breitbart Texas reported the electoral process violence left nine politicians dead.

Robert Arce is a retired Phoenix Police detective with extensive experience working Mexican organized crime and street gangs. Arce has worked in the Balkans, Iraq, Haiti, and recently completed a three-year assignment in Monterrey, Mexico, working out of the Consulate for the United States Department of State, International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Program, where he was the Regional Program Manager for Northeast Mexico (Coahuila, Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon, Durango, San Luis Potosi, Zacatecas.) You can follow him on Twitter. He can be reached at robertrarce@gmail.com