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Newtown Shooting

Friday, December 21, 2012

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 an amazing Friday morning press conference, 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, our …

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10:53 am on Monday, December 24, 2012

Disagreement with a person's opinions does not equate to dislike of them or passing judgement that they are stupid. Ask anyone who is married, has teenage children, or the occassion to deal with politicians of any breed know this. I am glad you are here because the alternative to living and communicating with others is not desireable and I do not wish that on anyone. Here is a nice little read …   more ›

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