WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Rifle Association on Sunday forcefully stuck to its call for placing armed police officers and security guards in every school as the best way to avoid shootings such as the recent massacre at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn.
Wayne LaPierre, CEO of the largest gun rights lobbying organization, said the NRA would push Congress to pay for more school security guards and would coordinate efforts to put former military and police offers in schools as volunteer guards.
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Oh, Jon Stewart, you went on vacation on the wrong week!
What a job-creator: The gun manufacturers will have to add extra shifts. And who, pray, will pay for all those gu-totin' police and security guards?
"Wayne LaPierre, CEO of the largest gun rights lobbying organization, said the NRA would push Congress to pay for more school security guards..." ____________________________________________________________________________________ It's official. The NRA is a socialist organisation. They want to spend other peoples' money.
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Of course I meant gun-totin'. I get a little verklempt...
Don't forget, we need security for church ladies, too. Or should they just hold their guns in one hand while they put up the garlands with the other?
With slightly more than 4 million members, the NRA is a *tiny* minority in a nation of well over 300 million. So why have they been able to put so many of our legislators on their payroll. Now Mr. Death is going to "push" Congress to spend more of our money on a very expensive "feel good" but terribly flawed project.
And how do you measure whether it's effective? After 4 or 5 years maybe we can figure out whether there have been other mass murders in schools? They don't occur often so we won't know right away. And what about mass murders elsewhere. Most have *not* been in schools.
What happens at one of these schools with armed guards, and a shooter does happen to kill a student or teacher. Who is going to pay for the lawsuit that will inevitably come down from some lawyer. The guard was not doing there job to the best of their ability. It is crazy on so many levels. How come this country has such an abundance of shootings and other countries who regulate gun control don't. I agree how come the NRA has such a say in the matter. It only has to do with their bottom line $$$$$.
@mdaigt: I suspect the armed guard would be a shooter's first target.
The NRA has lost so much regard by this essentially irrelevant notion, and by staying with the stupidity once it was promulated. God bless them, when will they learn that guns don't preserve anything but hostility, hatred, and hassles!
The NRA has lost whatever shred of credibilty that it might have retained in the wake of Newtown. And to think that I actually took their pre-release advisory to mean that they were going to propose something rational. I keep waiting: why does any law-abiding citizen need military grade assault weapons with high capacity clips, and why exactly are background checks and waiting periods a problem? Can someone explain it to me?
Haha. I remember your positive response to the NRA's announcement. It made me feel a little guilty that I was so negative.
You should be commended for giving them the benefit of the doubt until you knew the truth. I think I've become more cynical with age.
The best outcome possible would be if these NRA folks lose resoundingly in Congress!