{"id":1491597,"date":"2022-05-25T12:44:44","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T16:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1491597"},"modified":"2022-05-25T12:46:25","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T16:46:25","slug":"biden-atf-pick-opposed-arming-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-atf-pick-opposed-arming-teachers\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden ATF Pick Opposed Arming Teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-atf-pick-opposed-arming-teachers%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1491597&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody\">\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>President <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joe Biden<\/a>\u2019s second pick to head the nation\u2019s gun regulating agency opposed training and arming teachers with military or police backgrounds, an issue likely to be raised at a Senate <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.judiciary.senate.gov\/meetings\/05\/25\/2022\/nominations\">confirmation hearing<\/a> today.<\/p>\n<p>In his failed 2018 bid for <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/ohio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ohio<\/a> attorney general, Steve Dettelbach, nominated to head the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/atf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives<\/a>, opposed arming teachers, claiming that it is a \u201cpolitician\u2019s plan\u201d that some police opposed.<\/p>\n<p>It is one strongly endorsed by some key officials in Texas who yesterday said it could have lessened the tragic slayings of young children and a teacher at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>As the death count mounted yesterday, for example, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton reiterated his call to arm teachers as the best way to stop or delay a school shooting until police arrive.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The reality is, we don&#8217;t have the resources to have law enforcement at every school,&#8221; he said on Fox. &#8220;It takes time for law enforcement, no matter how prepared, no matter how good they are to get there. So, having the right training for some of these people at the school is the best hope,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Ted Cruz also called for armed school guards.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We know from past experience that the most effective tool for keeping kids safe is armed law enforcement on the campus,&#8221; Cruz told a gaggle of reporters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Inevitably, when there&#8217;s a murder of this kind, you see politicians try to politicize it. You see Democrats and a lot of folks in the media whose immediate solution is to try to restrict the constitutional rights of law-abiding citizens,&#8221; Cruz said, adding, &#8220;That doesn&#8217;t work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But Dettelbach in his 2018 race took the opposite view and endorsed a far-reaching anti-gun position, including a ban on AR-15s.<\/p>\n<p>Among the documents he submitted for today\u2019s Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing was a news story about how he and his opponent would handle school shootings like yesterday\u2019s in Texas.<\/p>\n<p>The winner in the race backed training and arming teachers who had police or military backgrounds.<\/p>\n<p>Dettelbach, however, said that was a bad idea.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think this is a politician\u2019s plan, quite frankly, I mean it doesn\u2019t protect people in any meaningful way. It\u2019s more than a day late and much more than a dollar short,&#8221; Dettelbach said, according to an <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/news.wosu.org\/news\/2018-03-02\/attorney-general-candidates-take-different-paths-on-guns-and-school-safety\">NPR news story<\/a> he included in his background file.<\/p>\n<p>Some major police groups have backed his nomination. Major gun groups, however, including the National Rifle Association, oppose his nomination.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden\u2019s second pick to head the nation\u2019s gun regulating agency opposed training and arming teachers with military or police backgrounds, an issue<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1491597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1491597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1491597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1491597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1491597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}