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 weeklong 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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Ed B
5:30 pm on Saturday, December 22, 2012
OK, I screwed up, was told the knife thing and did not look into it. They still did try to do it though. If it had passed and criminal started using rocks would they try and ban them next? It's a slippery slope. They say we just want to ban these so called assault rifles and their hi capacity magazines. Well guess what, even if you could get them off the streets, the bad people in the world would… more ›