Newt Gingrich offered one of the worst school-shooter plans yet – By Philip Bump (The Washington Post) / May 27, 2022
Former House speaker Newt Gingrich is an official Fox News contributor, meaning that his job, in part, is to appear on the network’s programs and talk about things. In the wake of the mass shooting in Uvalde, Tex. this week, that meant going on Fox News to talk about that tragedy and offering some words. Didn’t matter what words, really; he could have said just about anything. Could have kept a low profile and dusted off his hands.
Instead, during an appearance on Laura Ingraham’s show Wednesday night, Gingrich went the other direction, offering up some thoughts that stand out in a crowded field for their baffling implications.
Here is Gingrich’s plan.
“Every school in the country ought to have five or 10 people paid $500 a month or more extra — that would be a rational federal program to pay every teacher who’s willing to be trained and armed to protect the children — teachers and administrators,” he said. “But we don’t have that kind of conversation. We’re all stuck up in some high political baloney” — baloney led, he added, by President Biden.
