NRA calls for Armed Guards at every School
In calling for armed guards at every school in America Wayne LaPierre said today at a news conference in Washington “The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun”.
LaPierre added “”How many more copycats are waiting in the wings for their moment of fame from a national media machine that rewards them with wall-to-wall attention and a sense of identity that they crave, while provoking others to try to make their mark, a dozen more killers, a hundred more? How can we possibly even guess how many, given our nation’s refusal to create an active national database of the mentally ill?
“I call on Congress today to act immediately to appropriate whatever is necessary to put armed police officers in every single school in this nation,” he said.
Since all high schools in Fairfax County have police officers, why not expand that to all schools? More on the story here and here.
13 Responses to “NRA calls for Armed Guards at every School”
This is panic, not leadership. Conservatives can’t afford to have idiotic reponses like this to serious issues.
He got alot right, Doug. Like the newest sensation among no-good-do-nothing teenagers who even go after notoriety with a lazy abandon.
Monk,
I completely disagree. As I just said on Greg’s blog this is either a statement coming from a big government, big business stooge or a conservative leader who has completely panicked and lost his moral compass.
I do not want the federal government creating a new federal police force to ‘protect’ our children. And I don’t want a national force of rent-a- cops, you want to talk about background checks and the federal government skill level in that field? I will protect my children and my local community will protect our children in most situations. I will and have put my faith in my children’s schools and their staff, since I have a background and education which may be helpful, I will offer suggestions and aid where I can.
Honestly, we can no longer afford to tolerate these kinds of ‘leaders’ they play right into the hands of their critics and opponents by responding with same conceptual delusions of their opponents – only the federal government can save us, what a bunch of wusses.
Monk,
I don’t disagree with your reference to the teenagers and specific new dangers stemming from this generation of troubled teens, but that is where the NRA should redirect the public’s attention and on the meds that so many of these shooters are on. The anti-gun lobby immediate reaction to this was shameful, but why in the world does the NRA accept their framing and targeting of guns as the problem?
Doug,
Mr. LaPierre’s full statement can be found here:
http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/newtown-sandy-hook-school-shooting/hc-full-text-nra-statement-from-dec-21-press-conference-20121221,0,3795861.story
He did more than call for armed guards in our schools.
I do not agree with creating a new police force to guard schools, but we have to have a presence in the schools capable of stopping a shooter like Lanza, and the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is with another gun in the hands of a good guy as LaPierre said.
As LaPierre says in his statement, we advertise our schools gun free zones, and in so doing, we invite killers like Lanza to come kill our children, knowing full well that any resistance is miles and minutes away.
Lanza, the Colorado shooter, the Ft. Hood shooter, the Oregon shooter, all picked places where it was either unlikely or a sure thing that there would be no guns present.
The Colorado shooter had a choice of 7 theatres within 20 miles of his home that were showing the Batman movie that night. He did not go to the closest one, he went to the only one that prominently displayed signs banning guns from the premises.
More guns in the hands of competent, responsible, law abiding citizens is not a bad thing. NRA routinely prints a handful of stories from the hundreds of instances each month, where law abiding citizens with guns stop violent crime, usually without firing a shot.
Cam
Sgt.,
“More guns in the hands of competent, responsible, law abiding citizens is not a bad thing. ”
I agree with everything in statement except “More,” that is debateable given the situation one may be discussing. Human beings only have two hands. Guns in schools, unless we are talking in some sport’s training or ROTC program is not a good or natural thing.
Unfortunately, with blooming idiots like Bloomberg immediately making guns the central issue in this case, the NRA idiotically makes his day by going where the anti-gun lobby in this country wants to take it. I read the rest of his statement and I understood that he wanted to make mental health and culture part of the debate. Well where did LaPierre take his markesman training the Elmer Fudd school of shooting?
Never put a Frenchman as your pointman in a gun battle,the krauts will be in Paris the next morning everytime.
Sarge’s second maxim:
“the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is with another gun in the hands of a good guy as LaPierre said. ”
Not true. Nut jobs with guns can be stopped and thwarted in many ways. The “Nut” part is your target. I was taught from a very early age that your first and most important weapon is using your head, something LaPierre has apparently never learned or forgotten.
Sorry for hogging the board, but…
Here’s some practice targets:
http://www.cchrint.org/school-shooters/
http://doublecheckmd.com/EffectsDetail.do?dname=Fanapt&sid=164543&eid=2127
(Drug which Lanza’s uncle said he had been taking)
” we advertise our schools gun free zones, and in so doing, we invite killers like Lanza to come kill our children, knowing full well that any resistance is miles and minutes away.”
Cam…you just nailed the EXACT problem. Libs are eager to advertise their gun-free zones in the belief that criminals and the mentally criminal will honor those laws like law-abiding citizens. Again…the EXACT words that frame liberals….unintended consequences…..again.
“knowing full well that any resistance is miles and minutes away.”
That is not a true statement.
Communication. Protocols. Improvisation. They will differ in regions, districts, and individual schools, but variation, customization is good in this situation. Those three principles will introduce ‘resistance’ and obstacles for a wack job like Lanza and other liked crazed individuals.
We introduce armed guards into every school in the country. We introduce threats and problems which I suggest none of you have given adequate thought .
C’mon…..one third of schools already has armed presence. Where are the rampant news stories of the practice having gone wrong??
I heard today that the school Obama’s children attend has armed guards. Mayor Emanuel’s kids attend the Lab school of Chicago which also has armed guards. And yet Rahm Emanuel is adamantly opposed to armed guards in public schools. Why? Are his kids more precious than public school children? So it would appear.
Well if the sensational news cycle doesn’t have it then it doesn’t exist. From a security point of view the requirement that every school in the country have an armed guard is excessive and has ‘Central Planner’ stamped all over it.
Whether it is 1/3 or another % of schools is neither here nor there, some of those schools may need more or less armed guards. It depends on the school and its assessed needs and I would prefer more local assessment of those needs rather than a public panic and bad public policy informing those needs. Panic is how we got DHS, TSA and an assortment of other acronyms from Hell.
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