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NRA "Solutions" Are Straight Out of Hollywood

coveyrise Wrote: Dec 24, 2012 2:18 PM

Wow where to begin? Marsden completely ignores the fact that law abiding US Citizens use firearms in self defense, the defense of others and the prevention of crimes more than 700,000 times each year. While a lot of the stories don't make headlines people thwart crime hundreds if not thousands of times each day by being armed. Even elderly women have had to save themselves by shooting burgulars as they entered their home. Do most people "want" to shoot someone? NO Will they if they have no other choice? Every day

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coveyrise Wrote: Dec 24, 2012 2:20 PM

It would be safe to say that Marsden doesn't have a clue what she's talking about on this score.

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NRA "Solutions" Are Straight Out of Hollywood

After a tragedy like the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in Newtown, Conn., the injection of anything short of seriousness into the subsequent public discourse about guns is touchy. But last week, the National Rifle Association blasted numerous rounds into that particular barrier with NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre's mouth.

The organization's hysteric solution to gun violence in America is to put designated sitting ducks -- er, "armed police officers" -- in every American school. Apparently the secret is now out that such places are "gun-free," and LaPierre says that "(gun-free school zones) tell every insane killer in America...

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