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NRA's solution to Sandy Hook massacre: "armed guards" in every school

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11:33 a.m. Keene takes the stage and concludes the news conference as reporters shout questions. He repeats the organization's officers won't take questions. The bottom line is the NRA thinks that armed guards at schools and not pushing for more gun control measures is the way lawmakers should go after the issue.

11:31 School safety is a complex issue, but providing armed security could provide an important line of defense to protecting school children, Hutchinson said.

11:28 a.m. Hutchinson said he took the task of directing the model shield program with the condition that it would be independent. Armed, trained personnel will be part of the program, and it won't require any federal money. It will rely on volunteers.

11:26 a.m. "We must act now for the sake every child in America," LaPierre says before introducing Hutchinson

11:24 a.m. The NRA is creating what is calling a "model school shield program" to help improve security at schools It will be lead by former Rep. Asa Hutchinson and will be made available to every school that wants it free of charge, LaPierre says.

11:21 a.m. LaPierre calls on Congress to immediately appropriate money to put armed officers in every school in America. The conversation on this idea has to start immediately. He says the NRA has 11,000 police training instructors willing to help out.

11:17 a.m. LaPierre asks: "Why is the use of a gun when it's asked to be used to protect the president or used by the police, but bad when it's used to protect children." He calls on the media to "at least admit that it's possible" that armed guards could have stopped the Newtown massacre.

11:13 a.m. LaPierre criticizes the media for getting basic facts about guns wrong. "They don't know what they are talking about. He makes the point that increased regulation of guns amounts to "dishonest thinking." He adds, "The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun."

11:09 a.m. Federal gun prosecutions have decreased by 40% to lowest levels in a decade, LaPierre notes. He criticizes media for placing the blame on gun rights advocates and failing to talk about the "callous, corrupt shadow industry" pushed by Hollywood and video game makers.

11:06 a.m. A protester holding up a red handmade sign interrupts the press conference. He's carried out by security while yelling, "The NRA is killing our children."

11:05 a.m. LaPierre says pushing for gun-free killers offers an invitation to "insane" killers. He notes banks, stadiums, and lawmakers are protected by armed security, but we aren't doing the same for children. "We as a society are leaving them utterly defenseless...and the monsters of the world know it."

11:03 a.m. LaPierre says they remained "respectfully silent" out of respect for the families. He adds for all the anger thrown at his organization since Newtown tragedy no one is talking about how we protect our children now.

11:01 a.m. NRA President Keene introduces the organization's Wayne LaPierre, but says the organization will not take questions from reporters.
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So the NRA's solution to the gun problem is, what a surprise, more guns!
 
I'm not a parent, but I wouldn't want guns around my kids, regardless if its from an armed guard or not.

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"We must act now for the sake every child in America," LaPierre says before introducing Hutchinson
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Yes, but not by adding guns. Face it, your time is up.
 
NRA’s Wayne LaPierre: Put ‘armed police officers’ in every school

In his first extensive public remarks since the mass shooting at a Connecticut school last Friday, the head of National Rifle Association on Friday called for schools to be armed with police officers in an effort to curb violent outbreaks akin to the Connecticut shooting.

“The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun,” NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre said at a press conference in Washington. LaPierre also called on Congress to act immediately ”to appropriate whatever is necessary to put armed police officers in every school in this nation.”

LaPierre was interrupted twice by gun-control protesters; one held up a sign that read: “NRA Killing Our Kids.”

“Politicians pass laws for gun-free school zones, they issue press releases bragging about them … in doing so they tell every insane killer in America that schools are the safest place to inflict maximum mayhem with minimum risk,” said LaPierre, the head of the nation’s largest gun rights group.

The remarks came after a week of near silence from the NRA following the mass shooting last Friday in Newtown, Conn., where a gunman killed 20 children and six adults at an elementary school. The group’s social media accounts went dark, and it issued just one public statement, saying its members were “shocked, saddened and heartbroken by the news of the horrific and senseless murders.”

LaPierre said that if the Newtown school had armed officers on site, lives might have been spared.

“Will you at least admit it is possible that 26 little kids — that 26 innocent lives might have been spared that day?” he asked.

This week, gun-control advocates stepped up their push for tighter regulations on firearms and President Obama began a new effort to reduce gun violence. Obama launched an interagency task force led by Vice President Biden and has called for Congress to take action to ban assault weapons and high capacity ammunition clips. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said on Sunday that she will soon introduce a measure to that would place a federal ban on assault weapons.

Elsewhere on Capitol Hill, a handful of Democratic senators who have received high marks from the NRA signaled an openness this week to new regulations on guns, marking a change in their positions, in the wake of the Newtown shooting.

On Friday morning, Obama released a web video urging the public to assist in the push for new regulations. “I’m asking for your help … to make sure the United States of America is a safer, stronger place for our children to learn and to grow,” Obama said. Petitions on the White House Web site aimed at pressing the administration to take action on gun control have attracted hundreds of thousands of signatures.

For the first time since 2007, significantly more people strongly favor than strongly oppose stricter gun laws, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll released earlier this week. Overall, though, the poll showed that the percentages of Americans supporting stricter gun laws is on par with previous surveys.

The head of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, a group advocating for gun-control, called Friday on NRA members to join the effort to reduce gun violence.

“To all NRA members who believe like we do, that we are better than this, we send this message… Join us. Join us in making sure the gun violence ends now. We are all Americans and we all agree we are better than this,” said Brady Campaign President Daniel Gross.
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This really doesn't address the problem of gun-related murders elsewhere in the nation...like the movie theater shooting in Colorado.
 
And, NRA officials blamed the news media for focusing on what they view as the wrong issue — guns — rather than violent video games and the nation's mental health care programs.
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herp derp
 
NRA's next solution when posting armed guards at every school is shot down:

Cameras everywhere capable of predicting crime. Wait, cameras can't shoot bullets.
 
Because random ass people with guns works out so well for black dudes in Florida.

Edit: on a more serious note, this guy and the other dude are seriously out of touch. Something could be done about school security, especially in the inner cities, but that's not it. Neither is a registry for the mentally ill.
 
This breaking news alert that just showed up in my inbox is hilarious.

Breaking news: NRA chief blames Hollywood, media, music, and more for culture of violence
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MIMIC said:
This really doesn't address the problem of gun-related murders elsewhere in the nation...like the movie theater shooting in Colorado.
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This doesn't address anything, the shooter will just kill the easily identifiable guard first and then continue on
 
Or just start shooting, knowing that they'll get shot eventually if they don't shoot themself.
 
I honestly don't believe these people have done the math to figure out how much that would actually cost.

Morons.
 
Asa Hutchinson? The former head of the DEA? The same guy who wants to see every pot smoker in America put in prison? Wow. They chose THAT guy as their leader? hahahahaha. Well, that tells me everything I need to know about the NRA.
 
Oldschoolgamer said:
Because random ass people with guns works out so well for black dudes in Florida.
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I find it strange that the media has been bringing up Columbine and Aurora countless times, but has been strangely silent on the Trayvon Martin incident. It's not only crazy, troubled teenagers that are capable of being completely irresponsible with guns.
 
MIMIC said:
NRA’s Wayne LaPierre: Put ‘armed police officers’ in every school


Washington Post

This really doesn't address the problem of gun-related murders elsewhere in the nation...like the movie theater shooting in Colorado.
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Put some guns in the theater, too. Put an armory in every public location. The solution to violence is always more violence!
 
I'm glad NRA came out in full troll mode to indicate to the republicans and NRA dems that they better fucking toe the line. Time to re-sub!
 
Somebody should have told the UK to put armed guards in every school after Dunblane.

Just think how effective that would have been. I mean, schools in the UK are basically a war zone now. Basically. This would have worked much better.
 
I had an armed police officer in my high school and that was back in 01-04. It was not even a dangerous city or school, they just did it because they could.
 
The implosion of the Republican party AND the NRA in a 24 hour period?

I guess the apocolypse isn't turning out so bad after all.

Well, not so much for them I guess...
 
MIMIC said:
This really doesn't address the problem of gun-related murders elsewhere in the nation...like the movie theater shooting in Colorado.
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Wasn't that movie theater the only one near the shooter that didn't allow guns?
 
Federal Government, why wouldn't you fund a local armed volunteers trained by the NRA to be stationed in every school in America?
 
BakedPigeon said:
I had an armed police officer in my high school and that was back in 01-04. It was not even a dangerous city or school, they just did it because they could.
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Same. A nice well-to-do suburb, but they kept a police officer on guard during all school days. Gave the officer something to do beyond issuing speeding tickets, I guess.
 
11:17 a.m. LaPierre asks: "Why is the use of a gun when it's asked to be used to protect the president or used by the police, but bad when it's used to protect children." He calls on the media to "at least admit that it's possible" that armed guards could have stopped the Newtown massacre.
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It's also possible they would've done nothing

revised solution: tanks.
 
BakedPigeon said:
I had an armed police officer in my high school and that was back in 01-04. It was not even a dangerous city or school, they just did it because they could.
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We had one at my high school as well 94-97 and it was a small suburb in the pacific nw.
 
How do these yahoos even function on a day-to-day basis?

I feel like I'm entering the realm of the twilight zone with the borderline levels of crazy that the far right puts on display.
 
So he wants guys with big "KILL ME FIRST" signs at schools? Because that's what will happen, a killer can easily identify a cop before the cop identifies the killer and then it will be too late. Sigh...
 
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