Monday, March 15, 2010

Those Pre-K Kids Are Just Too Tough

The Department of Education, Inspector Generals office in Chicago, is soliciting bids for 27 short-barreled Remington pump shotguns.

These are excellent weapons for close-quarters combat in an urban setting, but can anyone think of a reason why the DoE would need them?

4 comments:

  1. The more I look at this, the less I understand it. I very much doubt that these will be in the hands of school administrators for defensive use in a Columbine type incident.

    Are the feds actually becoming so paranoid that they expect to be attacked by radical right-wing school choicers?

    Or maybe they think to have education types putting down armed insurrections in the streets of Chicago?

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  2. Good morning, DWT! Your link took me to the generic homepage.

    It makes no sense for the Dept. of Education to be soliciting bids for shotguns. Short-barreled shotguns are for close range, multiple-target kills; are they anticipating school administrators needing this type of weaponry? What are the ROEs associated with these weapons? Who, EXACTLY, will be issued such firepower around our kids?

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  3. I don't know why it did that, Lady Red, except perhaps a general lack of skill on my part.

    I just tried to edit the post, and that did not work, either.

    The link to that particular item is this:
    https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=cb68cf9f3fa2fe18a83d1c3dee0039b2&tab=core&_cview=0

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  4. Cut the whole department; that would be a vast improvement.

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