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‘Real News’: NRA Breaks Its Silence on Newtown Shooting, Slammed by Critics

Dec. 21, 2012 9:30pm Christopher Santarelli

One week after the tragic shooting that took the lives of 20 small children and 7 adults in Newtown, Connecticut, the National Rifle Association held a press conference to address the massacre and discuss what it will do to ensure tragedies like this never happen again.

“The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun,” NRA Vice President Wayne LaPierre told reporters at the news conference. “Would you rather have your 911 call bring a good guy with a gun from a mile away, or a minute away?”

LaPierre called on Congress to act and provide funding that is necessary to put armed security in every school in the country before students return from the holidays, and before “we engage in any lengthy debate over legislation, regulation or anything else.”

The news conference was twice interrupted by protesters who held banners and shouted that “The NRA is killing our children!”

The NRA comments were slammed by many in the media and political sphere as unrealistic and tone deaf.

On ‘Real News’ Friday the panel discussed the press conference, and how the NRA has handled past efforts to pass gun control legislation.

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jamestoms
Posted on December 24, 2012 at 3:46pm
David Gregory Hammers Wayne La. in order to score personal advertisement points for the left. Gregory dosen’t care for any child, Gregory cares for himself and deviate behavior, probably a pedifile.

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FOTOSHOT
Posted on December 23, 2012 at 9:28pm
As the NRA stated in speach, the media would take it out of context. Real News coverage was way off. Real News should do the research before making thier coverage. They sounded like stuges for Bloomberg !!! You guys should check out Shooting USA.com, Sportsman Chanel, Outdoors Channel and some of the magazines that cover shooting events and hunting with ASSULT STYLE rifles and SEMI – AUTO pistols. Why hasn’t there been much coverage on Obummers drone strikes, like the one on a wedding with over a 100 people attending. The strike was for one person. How many schools in Washington D.C. and New York have Police ? Why not report about all the crimes that are foiled by armed citizens. Besides disarming the American public is part of U.N. agenda 21.

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OK3SCREWBIRD
Posted on December 23, 2012 at 6:57pm
Many good comments but, please don’t forget the aspect of Psychotropic Drugs and their relationship to school shootings. Check it out here….http://ssristories.com/ This website is a compilation of over 4800 media stories on violent behavior and psychiatric medications. Check the “School Shootings/ Incidents” category and tell me we don’t have a drug problem in our culture. The guns have been around far longer than these Monster Making drugs have. Oh, the female teachers who have been seducing their young male students, guess what? Yep, that’s right…..

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sinner-saint
Posted on December 23, 2012 at 12:41am
To answer the woman’s question, “Why do people feel the need to have these types of guns”?

Reason number one is that they are really good hunting rifles.

Reason number two is protect themselves/their families from all the crazy insane leftist liberals/marxists/communists/criminals in the country who want to harm them, control them, and take what they have (the moochers).

i hope that answers her question.

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katzkiner
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 10:30pm
People don’t grasp the function of the Second Amendment. Think about this, can you imagine the problems Hitler’s SS would have had rounding up 6 million Jews to slaughter if all 6 million Jews had been armed with AK 47s. Governments go rogue, 100s of millions are killed by their own government. That is why the founders included the Second Amendment and would be tyrants hate it.

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P4cooler
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 5:28pm
When the anti gun politicians like Reid, Durbin, Feinstein, & Bloomberg get rid of their armed security bodyguards wherever they go…….. When politicians from & including the President travel by commercial airline like the rest of the Americans who work for a living….. then I will give up my firearms. Until this happens I tell the self righteous anti gun freaks to shut your mouths. I am not a juvenile and I don’t need government micro managing every facet of my life. Question for you gun haters….. after you take away our guns and a few sick deranged persons plow their SUVs through a playground killing 15 schoolkids at a time …….. are you going to pass legislation to get cars off the roads?

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South Philly Boy
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 3:35pm
More sense than Motorized Steel Walls

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RavenKnight
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 2:46pm
I do not call it an “assult rifle”. I call it a “counter-assult rifle”. The reason I own a weapon like this is to protect me, and my family, and needs be my friends and neighbors. The NRA is correct that our media, movies, and music are generating what I call “The glorification of thugery and anarchy”. In the future our homes are not going to be over run by just a couple of “bad guys”, but it will more likely be a “gang”. Having that “counter assult rifle” with that big magazine is going to be the difference between life and death. If anything should be “BANNED” in the U.S. it should be COMMUNISM!

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OUTLAW_WEALTH
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 2:00pm
I think we have enough Federal funding of anything.

Let the localities work out their own educational issues, including protection. This will do 3 things;

Remove the dictatorial, one-size-fits-all legislation coming from the corrupt thugs in DC.
Distribute decision making power to those most responsible and impacted by the decision.
Grow the economy as economic decisions are taken by those who have something at stake for the money spent. Obviously centrally planned education has succeeded in only further government power and diminishing individual liberty.

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Free_Thought
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 12:37pm
Unfortunately america will always be this way. We are a culture of violence. Tv, movies, games, sports etc. the fact that americans cant see that we and our culture are to blame. The blaze has barely covered the victims and who they are. But you are guaranteed about 5-7 articles a day on gun control. What does that say to you? What it says to me is that gun control and the 2nd amendment take precedence over these children that were murdered jn cold blood by a psycho with guns.

Yes you can kill someone with a knife, or car, or spoon or stick or slingshot or 2×4. But no one ever dies that do they. They always use guns because they are easy to get and do maximum damage. Yes there was a stanbing in china. 21 people stabbed. 2 deaths. 1.4 billion people in china and a lower gun violence percentage than america.

We need to wake up america. This is our childrens lives and i will never support more weapons to counter weapons. When has adding more of a problem to an existing problem helped. Please let me know.

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- Uechi
  Posted on December 22, 2012 at 3:46pm
  Sorry moron, but you are absolutely right that the 2nd Amendment and firearms ownership takes precedence over the innocents killed at Sandy Hook. The Constitution and the Bill of Rights was designed for all the citizenry not just the elite.Your so concerned about the slaugther of children why aren’t you up in arms that hundreds of thousands of unborn children are murdered by abortion in the name of “women’s rights”?. You can blame the killing of 20 kids on firearms rather than the madness of one evil young man but apparently don’t have that same outrage for the unborn. Hypocrite and moron
  
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- Free_Thought
  Posted on December 22, 2012 at 10:03pm
  Dude shut up about abortion. Abortion and gun control are 2 separate topics. Its quite telling of you to try to tie the 2 together though. Kudos to you. Thank god you conservatives are a dying breed. This country keeps getting smarter and moving forward while the right stays stuck in neutral. At least in my lifetime i was able to see the declune of conservatism. That atleast makes me smile.
  
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- katzkiner
  Posted on December 22, 2012 at 10:04pm
  UECHI: The number of aborted infants per day is more like 2000.
  
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grubgrub
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 9:55am
The remarks from the NRA is literally the only voice of reason and commonsense that has made its way to the airwaves. The rest of this crap is just that crap and hysteria. The culture in the US unfortunately warrants this commonsense approach. If you would like to find any alternative to guarding the children then you will have to start in the mental health field and Maybe in 10-20 years you ca1n pull out the armed guards but for right now its the only option. The NRA tearing down the media was beautiful and using their own platform to do it was great and truthful, they are fearmongers of the worst type, lie through their teeth about the facts and then get a bunch of attention seaking bottom feeders to regurgitate their ******** and the sheep just swallow it hook line and sinker. Look all you need to do is research the facts surrounding this nightmare and take all the horrid sound bites out of the picture and USE YOU OWN BRAIN which is lacking in our society. God bless the families of those taken by a mad man.

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jlarson41
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 8:47am
What is really damaging to the effort to find a solution to this problem is a bunch of people getting on TV in front of a large TV audience and talking about a subject they know nothing about. No matter how well meaning they are someone talking about “rapid fire clips”, “assault rifles” or “automatic weapons” does nothing but cloud the real issue with a bunch of emotional claptrap. These people should do some research before they open their mouths about a subject they are ignorant of.

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yousername
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 8:35am
Sad that our weak, dumbed-down society has allowed hysterical, non-thinkers to leverage the few irresponsible knuckle-draggers among the multimillions of responsible gun owners to demonize an inanimate object to the point that adults can only hide the children when faced with a madman.

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RIGHT_WHERE_IT_HURTS
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 7:28am
Gee, I wonder when those ‘protests’ are gonna start happening at gubbmint press conferences? BWAHAHAHAHAhahahahaaha…………………

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HKS
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 7:24am
The biggest massacre in US history involved no guns at all. So I don’t think banning guns will solve anything if a nut job wants to kill some people. The real problem is schools producing nut jobs with liberal and socialist ideas.

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mycomet123
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 6:53am
I’m sure the NRA would like nothing better than to have guns at every school. I personnally don’t like guns of any sort. All I hear about is the second amendents rigt to bear arms.. My question is that when the second amendment was written it was a totally different society. There were no phones, no 911 calls, the majority of the people lived far from each other in rural areas, there were no assult guns that fired 30 shots or more in seconds. I am a Christian & my Bible states that we are to become like litte children to inherit the Kingdom of God. I have been listening to the parents whose children were murdered & some of the stuff they have been saying & I find it deeply profound. One mother stated that she could feel her child speaking through her. This mother preached PEACE. What I fear with a society of guns is increasing violence & assults. We live in a instant society were every gratification so desired needs to be had immediately. Road rage, people fighting in malls & buses for “their rights”. Jesus was a Man of Peace. Matthew 5:38 You have heard it was said, “Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth. But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheeck, turn to him theother also. And if someone wants to sue you & take your tunic, let him have your cloak as well. I beleive in protecting children but I don’t believe that involeves more guns. I believe it starts with CHANGING OUR SOCIETY! I believe the town of Newton is showing us the

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- M249_in_each_hand
  Posted on December 22, 2012 at 7:05am
  So… you question the legitimacy of the Second Amendment on the basis of its age. Then quote from the Bible.
  
  I’m guessing you don’t see the irony in that.
  
  And let’s not even discuss how many more people have been killed in the name of God than have been killed by guns.
  
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- mycomet123
  Posted on December 22, 2012 at 7:11am
  I just wanted to mention the dad from Newtown whose son was murdered. This father stated that his son had told him a couple days earlier that this was going to be the best Chrismas ever. This father stated that “you know maybe he’s right, maybe this will be the best Christmas, because the true meaning of Christmas was happening with the way all the people in the world were responding to Newtown.” How anyone could ever state that after their son was just brutally murdered shows me, more than any sermon, the GRACE OF GOD.
  
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- mycomet123
  Posted on December 22, 2012 at 7:16am
  M249_IN_EACH_HAND, The Bible is the LIVING WORD OF GOD, it doesn’t have an “age”. The LIVING WORD OF GOD IS JESUS & HE’S ETERNAL! The Bible is more current than your next breath!
  
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- M249_in_each_hand
  Posted on December 22, 2012 at 7:39am
  Damn, you religious nuts are more indoctrinated than most liberal zealots.
  
  Regardless of what your beliefs are, there is no denying the inconceivable amount of bodies piled at the feet of your religion. If you’re concerned about a future filled with guns and horrible acts of violence, you may want to take a look back at history. Before the gun we had the sword, and we were all too ready to go around lopping off each other’s heads.
  
  It doesn’t matter what weapons we use to kill each other with, it’ll still happen until the basest causes of our will to destroy each other is confronted.
  
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- mycomet123
  Posted on December 22, 2012 at 1:38pm
  M249_IN_EACH_HAND, I have a personnal relationship with Jesus not a religion. If there are bodies piled up as in the crusades, the blood is not on my hands since I was not involved. I am lead by the Word of God & my conscience. I agree with your statement that the only way this will get resolved is by our own will to stop destroying each other (man’s inhumanity to man).
  
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leonardo44
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 5:04am
you all are missing the point. the panel supports the NRA , but given the recent tragedy in Newtown it’s important for the NRA to put forth the appropriate data in support of our second amendment, and not say a lot of incendiary things. It’s just about being smart and sensitive to the swell of public opinion
against certain types of gun ownership…( assault weapons etc) All the NRA has to do is stick to the facts. The Real News panel was on the money. There’s a difference between the NRA defending itself and the NRA being its own worst enemy. And if you check Sexton’s bio, he’s been in two war zones and the nypd, i think he knows his stuff and wants the NRA to put forth its views intelligently not belligerently.

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- December22
  Posted on December 22, 2012 at 6:22am
  The left has such a hard time with logic and reason because their entire idealogy is based on pure emotion. /
  
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- Redneckpapist
  Posted on December 22, 2012 at 8:42pm
  Yes, that the panel supports the Second Amendment and the NRA, but they were wrong to “pile on”
  LaPierre for his bluntness. I think he took the right approach. The best defense is taking the offensive. Go Wayne!
  
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Chet Hempstead
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 1:57am
Okay, that’s just stupid. There are almost 100,000 schools in the country and they’re open 180 days a year. There is a school attack less than once a year. That works out to a ratio of over 20 million days of guys standing around doing nothing to one day that one of them is actually needed, and on that one day there is no guarantee that he will actually do any good. Even if he’s armed, he’s not going to be better armed than Adam Lanza the guy who pulled off this latest massacre, and he’s going to be standing by the front door, so he’s not going to be much help if a guy comes in the window, like Lanza did.

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- Exrepublisheep
  Posted on December 22, 2012 at 2:07am
  Columbine had a good guy with a gun, and the bad guys with the guns killed a bunch of kids and then stopped themselves.
  
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- Soulfire1975
  Posted on December 22, 2012 at 4:39am
  that is why give the teachers guns.
  
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- M249_in_each_hand
  Posted on December 22, 2012 at 6:59am
  I would personally welcome the opportunity to volunteer to stand guard at a local school. I’d gladly give up one of my free days each week to do my part in keeping our young ones safe. Certainly, many of these positions could be filled by people such as myself and supplemented with paid guards.
  
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- Chet Hempstead
  Posted on December 22, 2012 at 2:57pm
  Soulfire1975
  Teachers are stupid. Most of them went straight from school back into school without ever living in the real world. They are like children. Giving them guns is as bad an idea as giving guns to high school seniors to police the freshmen.
  
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- Chet Hempstead
  Posted on December 22, 2012 at 3:00pm
  M249_in_each_hand
  Okay, but who the hell are you, and how do we know you’re not a homicidal maniac? If one guy among hundreds of thousands of volunteer guards was doing it for the wrong reasons, that one guy could do more harm than not having guards at all.
  
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- katzkiner
  Posted on December 22, 2012 at 10:19pm
  A school security officer could discourage many kinds of criminal activities on school grounds everyday. Kidnappings, rapes, assaults, drug vendors, vandalism, thefts, and more. A bean counter estimated it would cost $4 billion to put an officer on ever American campus. A small price to protect teachers and children.
  
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R.A. Bullseye
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 1:54am
I really can’t believe that I sat here and watched Buck Sexton rip apart the president of the NRA for defending himself.I have often disagreed with the Real News panel but this one takes the proverbial cake. According to Buck and other panel members the NRA should remain silent. Really? I think given the attacks against them the NRA needed to defend themselves and I am glad they did. The “remain silent” and lay low ideology is part of the problem today with most Republicans. The reticent no worries ineptness will win us nothing. Isn’t it time to take a stand and defend ourselves against the ruthless progressives….oh excuse me I may be using language that is too strong for Buck….Plus I think having a armed guard at schools is a very good idea. Yes more guns.

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- merefbr
  Posted on December 22, 2012 at 1:32pm
  I was watching msnbc for kicks and they were criticizing the NRA for remaining silent for a week!
  
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SGT Rock
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 1:46am
Mr. LaPierre is speaking the truth which drives the left crazy because this does not go along with the total disarmament of the America people. When they disarm us they will have nothing to fear from us and tyranny will be unchecked. Read the second Amendment it is not in the Constitution to protect hunting rights but to allow the citizens to remained armed to prevent tyranny from seizing our country from without or within. When the left taught immigrants not to assimilate into American culture but instead to stay separated from our society they watered down what made America strong, our values and culture. Be proud of your roots but you should first be proud to be an American citizen. We were the melting pot once, now we are just a bunch of ingredients.

We need to focus on mental illness and keep firearms out of their hands. Maybe we should hold Doctors accountable for their patients that they put on these head meds, some of the side effects are worse than the problem. Until we control mental illness we should enforce the current gun laws.

I will surrender my firearms when all the elite, rich, actors/actresses, politicians surrender their armed guards. If being disarmed is good enough for the citizen then it is good enough from the Prez on down i say. No more double standards.

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- R.A. Bullseye
  Posted on December 22, 2012 at 1:57am
  Amen…It really bothers me that the panel thinks the NRA should remain silent. It bothers me because I think our younger generation have become ultimate wimps.
  
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- searching for the Truth
  Posted on December 22, 2012 at 8:43am
  The ” Minute Man” is why ! Research that ! For a disarmed country is a country without weapons – simple. Control the sick people – the fifth in movies,games, etc.. And, it’s all sealed with the kiss of sex which appeals to baser instincts. Believe me, your enemies are not afraid of guns. The enemy is laughing. Listen, ” Can you hear it ? “
  
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