American Police State: School Zone

A couple years ago while walking Jerusalem's Old City, I stumbled upon a children's Purim party. Watching over the costumed children having fun were two uniformed men carrying automatic weapons. It was a bizarre sight, young children running around laughing while soldiers stood over them to prevent religious extremists from slaughtering the innocent.

It's a social deformity that Republicans want to bring to schools around the United States.

Of course, there are differences between Israel and the US.

• Israel is at war with Palestinian terrorists; Americans just love guns so much they want everybody to have them all the time everywhere.
• Israel uses highly trained professionals (soldiers, police); Americans just want to pass guns out to underpaid teachers and hope they will figure out what to do.
• Israel treats a rare school shooting as a national tragedy; in America it's just another Tuesday.
• Israel has strict gun laws; America has more guns than people and acts like guns are more important than people.

America the Beautiful?