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This is how the wingnut guns-everywhere-all-the-time get their way. Not because anyone agrees with them, but because they are too terrified not to respond to the arms race.
"Don't mess with Marlboro Township.
The leafy, well-heeled New Jersey suburb will station a permanent armed cop in each of its nine schools starting Jan. 2.
It's apparently the first district nationwide bent on packing heat in every schoolhouse since madman Adam Lanza gunned down 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., on Dec. 14.
"We've made a collective decision as a town that we need armed security in each of our schools," Mayor Jonathan Hornik told The Post.
"With this new evil, you can't just sit there and hope that it doesn't happen in your town. We must protect our kids."
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