NRA Calls for 'Armed Security' Around Schools
"The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun," the NRA's Wayne LaPierre said.
In an amazing Friday morning press conference in Washington DC, the National Rifle Association broke its week long silence following the horrific shooting of 26 people at a school in Newtown, CT and called for a surge of gun-carrying "good guys" around American schools. NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre called for a new kind of American domestic security revolving around armed civilians, arguing that "the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun." "We care about our president, so we protect him with armed Secret Service agents," LaPierre said. "Members of Congress work in offices surrounded by Capitol Police officers. Yet, when it comes to our most beloved, innocent, and vulnerable members of the …
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william lee
5:21 pm on Friday, December 21, 2012
Let me see if I heard the NRA spokeman correctly-what's needed to solve our violence problem is more armed guards? Nothing else? No need to run a background check on everyone who buys a weapon-why bother. Just pick up a "bushmaster" assault rifle at your local gun show and have at it. Too bad about the kids in Connecticut-just the price the general public has to pay for for the freedom to buy our… more ›