During their first press conference since the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting last week in Newtown, Conn. leaders from the National Rifle Association offered the country a National School Shield Safety Program as an immediate way to protect children from violent killers during a press conference today in Washington D.C.
“While some have tried to exploit the tragedy for political gain, we have remained respectfully silent,” NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre said. “Nobody has addressed the most important pressing and immediate question...How do we protect our children today?”
LaPierre discussed in detail an...
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Luscious Lars Wrote: Dec 21, 2012 12:37 PM
I agree with most of your post aj59, except for the last sentence. I know that there are a LOT of people in America these days who believe banning guns will make everybody safer, but I'm not sure they have the majority, at least not yet. Of course, our public schools are doing everything they can to demonize guns and reinforce the false ideology that "guns are bad". The public schools are part of the problem, not the solution. I liked what Wayne had to say, as well as Asa Hutchinson. I know a lot of progressives plugged their ears and will go on with their same, failed, belief system intact.
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rhinegarten Wrote: Dec 21, 2012 12:29 PM
Well of course. Gun laws were so effective in preventing the tragedy in Newtown - Oh wait!
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