emails between Rahm Emanuel and Education Secretary Arne Duncan in the days after the Sandy Hook shooting give an insight into the political strategizing going on;
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At 6:57PM EST on December 16, 2012, Duncan wrote to Emanuel in a message titled “CT shootings.”
Duncan asked the Chicago mayor, “What are your thoughts?”
Five minutes later, Emanuel responded, “Go for a vote this week before it fades. Tap peoples emotion. Make it simple assault weapons.”
Duncan responded immediately, “Yup- thanks.”
It was two days after the shooting, when Emanuel and Duncan collaborated on a message.
“When I did brady bill and assault weapons for clinton we always made it simple. Criminals or war weapons,” Emanuel said in the email to Duncan.
“Gun show loophole?” Duncan responded. “Database? Cop-killer bullets? Too complicated?” he said.
“Cop killer maybe,” Emanuel responded. “The other no.”
The exchange ended in under 11 minutes when Duncan concluded with, “Got it.”
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Arne Duncan, who served as President Barrack Obama’s Education Secretary from 2009 to 2015, began working on instituting new school discipline policies in 2011, ultimately disseminating federal guidance for schools in 2014.
The goal was to remove schools’ zero-tolerance behavior policies and to reduce and eventually eliminate disproportionate suspension and expulsion gaps between white students and students of color.
Coined “Rethink Discipline,” the move was an effort to curb suspensions and expulsions as a means to eliminate what 2014 civil rights data show are disproportionate rates of out of school consequences between white students, students of color, as well as students with learning disabilities.
This was one of the minds behind the 'restorative justice' campaign that essentially aimed to reduce disproportionate disciplinary enforcement in schools by stopping disciplining students. Its the brilliant minds who decided that because even when avowed progressive teachers wound up suspending/expelling far more black kids, rather than admit that black kids were vastly disproportionately responsible for trouble and violence, instead they decided that when one student attacks another, the attacker should sit in a room and 'apologize' while the victim is pressured to say how woke he is.
It was this policy that played a major role in allowing the Parkland shooting to occur and for the student to never get proper law enforcement attention.
So we get to see the cynical political strategy being hammered out in the aftermath of a school shooting by the guy who shares responsibility for further school shootings.
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