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,' group says
In a surprising Friday morning press conference, the National Rifle Association broke its weeklong silence following the 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, our children…
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Richard
1:41 pm on Friday, December 21, 2012
I'm not sure what Chief Kobak is so concerned about. Who would do background checks? The same people that do background checks for police, military, CCW, and anybody else that requires a background check. If that is the big concern, then why aren't we questioning background checks NOW? more ›