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 a 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 American family…
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Tammy Osier
9:57 am on Monday, December 24, 2012
When an armed Officer from the Police Department is 30 minutes away, and SRo or two on campus is just seconds or minutes. I can't say enough that I am for SRO's on campus of every school. They can't stop the crazies from coming, but can put an end to it more quickly. But for all those that their being there would deter, it's so worth it. Read my article on SRO's. They spend most of their time … more ›