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Barack Obama: “If the parents or the school districts don't want it in that school, we're still going to override it and put them there…”

On the recordJanuary 15, 2013
If the parents or the school districts don't want it in that school, we're still going to override it and put them there anyway? That is a massive expansion of government.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Blow critiques the proposal to place armed guards in schools, framing it as government overreach.

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