{"id":3029,"date":"2013-01-23T15:11:33","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T20:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=3029"},"modified":"2013-01-23T15:11:33","modified_gmt":"2013-01-23T20:11:33","slug":"california-school-district-spent-14000-on-new-semi-automatic-colt-rifles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2013\/01\/california-school-district-spent-14000-on-new-semi-automatic-colt-rifles\/","title":{"rendered":"California School District Spent $14,000 on New Semi-Automatic Colt Rifles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/mojo\/2013\/01\/california-school-district-rifle-guards-newtown\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/colt_694_rifles.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When the public school students of Fontana, Calif., returned to classes in January, something had changed about their schools. Specifically, the Fontana Unified School District had filled on-campus safes with $14,000 in new Colt 6940 semi-automatic rifles for its 14 police officers. The high-powered, long-distance rifles will only be used in &#8220;extreme emergency cases.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As the Los Angeles Times reports, the Fontana school district&#8217;s heavy arming of its campus cops has stirred a controversy in the local community. One school board member, Leticia Garcia, told the Times that police officials and school administrators acted without consulting local Fontanans, a grave mistake given the ongoing national debate around guns and schools. &#8220;It was not vetted by the board and not vetted by the community,&#8221; Garcia said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE:<\/strong>\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/mojo\/2013\/01\/california-school-district-rifle-guards-newtown\"target=\"_blank\">California School District Spent $14,000 on New Semi-Automatic Colt Rifles | Mother Jones<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the public school students of Fontana, Calif., returned to classes in January, something had changed about their schools. Specifically, the Fontana Unified School District had filled on-campus safes with $14,000 in new Colt 6940 semi-automatic rifles for its 14 police officers. The high-powered, long-distance rifles will only be used in &#8220;extreme emergency cases.&#8221; As&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,9],"tags":[274,1624,1081],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3029"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3035,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3029\/revisions\/3035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}