NRA Press Conference: Wayne LaPierre Calls For Armed Police Officers At Every School
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| Protestor holds up a sign as the NRA exec made his presentation. |
By PHILIP ELLIOTT, The ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON -- The nation's largest gun-rights lobby is calling for armed police officers to be posted in every American school to stop the next killer "waiting in the wings."
The National Rifle Association broke its silence Friday on last
week's shooting rampage at a Connecticut elementary school that left 26
children and staff dead.The group's top lobbyist, Wayne LaPierre, said at a Washington news conference that "the next Adam Lanza," the man responsible for last week's mayhem, is planning an attack on another school.
"The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun," LaPierre said.
He blamed video games, movies and music videos for exposing children to a violent culture day in and day out.
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Sylvia Comp Sebastian Such a plan has already been tried, "and it did not work," said Josh Sugarmann, executive director of the Violence Policy Center, and a native of Newtown, Conn.
"In fact there were TWO armed law enforcement agents present at Columbine High School during the assault by Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold that left 15 dead and 23 wounded. They twice engaged and fired at Eric Harris in an effort to stop the shooting, but were unsuccessful because they were outgunned by the assault weapons wielded by the two teens."
Read more here: http://blogs.mcclatchydc.com/washington/2012/12/nra-calls-for-armed-guards-at-schools.html#storylink=cpy
Columbine guards talk about their shootout with the highly armed Columbine killers.
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| Assault weapon like one used in the 1st graders massacre. |
A conservative California federal judge makes the case for banning assault weapons and high capacity clips....to reduce the "MASS" of "MASS MURDER.
It's a great read from the LA Times... thanks MoRage for posting it.
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NEA and AFT Teachers unions call the NRA's plan 'Irresponsible And Dangerous,' 'Delusional' The story from Huffington Post.
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Breaking News: Turns out, we're still here. Guess we need a new Mayan calendar.
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The era of Republican obstructionism is about to end.
“The Mayans were right, as it turns out, when they predicted the world would end in 2012. It was just a select world: the G.O.P. universe of arrogant, uptight, entitled, bossy, retrogressive white guys. Just another vanishing tribe that fought the cultural and demographic tides of history. Someday, it will be the subject of a National Geographic special, or a Mel Gibson movie, where archaeologists piece together who the lost tribe was, where it came from, and what happened to it.
The experts will sift through the ruins of the Reagan Presidential Library, Dick Cheney’s shotgun casings, Orca poll monitoring hieroglyphics, remnants of triumphal rants by Dick Morris on Fox News, faded photos of Clint Eastwood and an empty chair, and scraps of ancient tape in which a tall, stiff man, his name long forgotten, gnashes his teeth about the 47 percent of moochers and the ‘gifts’ they got. Instead of smallpox, plagues, drought and Conquistadors, the Republican decline will be traced to a stubborn refusal to adapt to a world where poor people and sick people and black people and brown people and female people and gay people count.” – Maureen Dowd, in the New York Times.
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The House goes Home for Christmas! No Cliff Deal! Things falling apart.
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The era of Republican obstructionism is about to end.
“The Mayans were right, as it turns out, when they predicted the world would end in 2012. It was just a select world: the G.O.P. universe of arrogant, uptight, entitled, bossy, retrogressive white guys. Just another vanishing tribe that fought the cultural and demographic tides of history. Someday, it will be the subject of a National Geographic special, or a Mel Gibson movie, where archaeologists piece together who the lost tribe was, where it came from, and what happened to it.
The experts will sift through the ruins of the Reagan Presidential Library, Dick Cheney’s shotgun casings, Orca poll monitoring hieroglyphics, remnants of triumphal rants by Dick Morris on Fox News, faded photos of Clint Eastwood and an empty chair, and scraps of ancient tape in which a tall, stiff man, his name long forgotten, gnashes his teeth about the 47 percent of moochers and the ‘gifts’ they got. Instead of smallpox, plagues, drought and Conquistadors, the Republican decline will be traced to a stubborn refusal to adapt to a world where poor people and sick people and black people and brown people and female people and gay people count.” – Maureen Dowd, in the New York Times.
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The House goes Home for Christmas! No Cliff Deal! Things falling apart.
And in that bill cutting foodstamps, meals on wheels and other safety net things? Starting to look like there's no leadership....or else there IS leadership and its WAY above John Boehner's pay grade! He's being left out to dry I guess.
I know the Tea Party sites are way down on Boehner for even talking to the black guy. They really wanna crash it. I think they're still pissed about the election and are irrational. And the TP big websites and Fox are in disarray and have lost their leadership, who wanted no part of this insanity. And they're like deer in the headlights...they don't know what to do.
There's no one on the GOP side who has enough support OR IS WILLING TO STICK HIS NECK OUT, to exercise any unifying leadership.
I wonder if they've poisoned their Kool-Aid and are planning a mass suicide.
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3 comments:
We need to disarm. We can't be a peaceful country armed to the teeth. There are no laws in place that would have kept that boy from taking his mother's weapons, nor is it possible to write new laws that would have prevented this. The same arguments that people make about my cigarettes can be made about guns. Your guns are endangering my health. My right to life trumps your right to bear arms.
The NRA is part of the problem, not part of the solution.
I disagree with your view that we must disarm. The FF's in their infinite wisdom and knowledge of repressive government, provided a 2nd Amendment. I support it.
I do not support paramilitary weapons and ammo capacities in the hands of citizens, though.
Additionally, the cat's out of the bag...and can't be put back.
I would support gun registration for paramilitary weapons and establishment of specific rules for them, such as liability laws to allow registered owners to be sued for damages, just as car owners are...requiring insurance...and liability so long as there's been no transfer of ownership. Maybe that for all guns, dunno. Even requiring expensive insurance for high capacity weapons based on their killing potential.
IN short, there are things we can do to force owners to be more secure in weapons they own that are grandfathered out of a weapons sale ban.
A thoughtful response. I especially thought your comments about insurance were interesting. I've not seen anyone mention this before.
But, the Second Amendment is no longer a deterrent to repressive government. That's an antiquated idea, though, yes, the cat is out of the bag & it would be hard to do. But, I'd like to live in a without an armed citizenry.
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