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Dec. 21, 2012 9:03am Scott Baker

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larrywb
Posted on December 23, 2012 at 12:26pm
I’m an NRA lifer and a committed supporter. However, I think Wayne LaPierre is speaking his own mind and not those of the membership when he advocates putting cops in schools! Apart from it being an unsupportable concept, it would be unbelievably expensive. I suspect David Keene is speaking through LaPierre here, and Keene is a self-righteous jerk, in my view.

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Guitar Master
Posted on December 23, 2012 at 1:14am
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Schools are GUN FREE zones. Doesn’t common sense dictate that if you are looking for a, so called, “target rich” environment, you would want to look for a GUN FREE zone (school)?

Instead of locking down a school like a prison, not allowing recesses and making kids dread school, follow the NRA’s plan and simply allow qualified, well trained armed guards in every school. They should carry concealed so as not to frighten the kids. This is a perfect solution to put a stop to the madness and quiet the idiots talking about assault weapons which they know absolutely nothing about.

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bobfrommosinee
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 4:48pm
Good Lord No!!!! Don’t give the power to the Government to tax guns and ammo anymore than they already do, It is the Government liberals who came up with the Magic Solution of Gun Free Zones in the first place, Like all magic it was just a slight of hand illusion of safety, Taking your eyes off the real problem, the Criminally insane, and Criminals.

What is not understood, Criminals By Definition do not obey the Law, and the Criminally Insane do not have the ability to comprehend the Law or Right from Wrong.

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- Conservative2
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 12:23am
  It’s common sense but we’re being set up by the progressives with baby steps again!
  
  Think about it!
  
  As a vet, I know and all the vets out there know what a Assault rifle is, John Q Public is being fed a definition of what one is based on what the Progressive’s are saying.
  
  An Ar15 is not an assault rifle, it looks very intimidating but it’s merely a semi-automatic rifle that just happens to look allot like the military’s assault rifle which can go from Automatic to semi-automatic.
  
  Hence the new Progressive’s definition of Assault rifle is now Semi-Automatic!
  
  Deaths in America by a so called assault rifle (ar15 types) are responsible for 358 deaths!
  
  Hand guns that are Semi-automatic are a quite a bit larger number 6000 plus deaths, can you see the slippery slope here into our hand guns? Baby Steps!
  
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sinner-saint
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 12:35pm
Many games and television commercials contain subliminal messaging. how do we know that none of these violent games and TV commercials/shows don’t have subliminal messaging in it? The reality is that we dont and most likely, it does. NRA is absolutely right about the games and TV. to be quite objective, they hit the entire subject on the money.

Let properly trained teachers pack. It’s a very simple, cost-effective effective workable solution. Schools could have armed security personnel/officers as well. Building access controls would also go along way as well as surveillance systems. Go to any high profile government building/installation, bank, power utility plant, courthouse……all these places have surveillance systems, some have access controls, and most have armed security professionals. If the POTUS can have armed security and be protected anywhere he goes, than so can any citizen/child. POTUS is no better than you or I. POTUS is just a citizen too. The NRA is right. throwing ones self in fron of children to protect them from gunfire is nothing but plain ole suicide. not my idea of being a hero. Dropping a gunman like the the animal they are is my idea of being a real hero. We have too many dangerous mentally ill/deranged people and communists/marxists/terrorists/criminals running loose in our society today. They have genetic defects of character and can’t be mixed in with the general population and be expected to function normally. This is why we must be arme

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Shavedape
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 11:04am
I had this idea shortly after I heard about the shooting. What if a member of the office staff or one of the teachers had been armed? I am a teacher and a gun owner. I own the guns for protection. But as a teacher I am forced to play the willing victim and cower in fear if my school ever faces a Newtown type event. I’m not real good at that. I suggested to a friend, a member of the local police force, that teachers, volunteers of course, go through the police academy over summer break and then serve as sworn, armed officers in their school. One or two per school could prevent such a horrible slaughter of truly helpless innocent people ever again.

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- katzkiner
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 1:47pm
  Very good idea.
  
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HoratiusAtTheBridge
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 1:32am
Before CT they’d cry that armed security was unnecessary, expensive and even “scary”. So AFTER CT I ask HOW NECESSARY NOW? HOW IS IT MORE COSTLY THAN OVER TWENTY LITTLE COFFINS AND FUNERALS? AND HOW MUCH MORE SCARY WAS IT FOR THE KIDS TO SEE THEIR FRIENDS AND TEACHERS SHOT TO PIECES?

Here’s what to do: A small tax on ammunition and guns, REQUIRED TO ONLY BE SPENT ON SCHOOL SECURITY GUARDS – ARMED ONES. This would easily put “good guns” at a school should a “evil” gun come to that school.

Someone I know said “When one bad guy with a gun was there, over twenty people were murdered; less than an hour LATER there were hundreds of good guys with guns there and no one stubbed a toe.” It’s the same old stupid deal – the police and their high-speed low-drag ninja weaponry and full body armor – and shields – arrive AFTER the empty handed teachers lay lifeless amid their dead students. Anyone who doesn’t see the problems here and the solutions is a fool.

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banjarmon
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 12:49am
Teachers willing to take the responsibility to be trained in in proper use of a weapon and be protected from litigation and keep the weapon on their person at all times…I’m ALL for it!!!

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- MrDog
  Posted on December 22, 2012 at 3:07am
  Never happen teachers for most part are liberals and part of the problem!
  
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Eyeball
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 12:33am
It doesn’t go far enough. I want teachers, administrators, janitors, cooks in school to be allowed to carry concealed when they get their training and license. One guard could not stop a gang of terrorists, but 20 or 30 armed teachers could. There is no common sense in telling you at the door of a school that you cannot exercise your 2nd right within the building.

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- MMCMswRET
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 10:08am
  Always carry, never tell.
  
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GuruMeditation
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 12:27am
An armed guard would be OK but it would be even better if we did background checks on all teachers and let them carry if they wished as well as posting armed guards.

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bobfrommosinee
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 9:36pm
There are 26,000+ laws and regulations controlling the access and possession of Fire Arms in America, And not one of them has stopped criminals from obtaining weapons to ply their trade with, The only thing those 26,000+ laws and regulations have done is restrict the access to Firearms of the honest Citizen.

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K-Bob
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 8:58pm
A lot of back-and -forth today with folks over at Ace’s place. Too many were focused on LaPierre’s point about video games. We’re trying like heck to retain the second amendment, and some right-siders worry more about his comments on video games? It’s not like he said we should ban them.

LaPierre was pointing out that the media ignores all other societal influences, and focuses on the gun, as if it were the sole cause of violence. This was a good, short speech to the media, and they needed telling.

8000+ new members a day means the media had better pay attention.

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nighttrainno9
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 8:46pm
With all the nuts loose in the world and no one looking after them, I don’t
think you have a choice. We guard the airports, banks, sports events, political
figures ETC, why not see that the kids are safe from the nuts that are running
around.

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coei
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 12:19pm
Gun Free Zones are attractive targets for those who mean to do harm. It was reported, but not substantiated, that this murderer did pass by two other schools because he was looking for the defenseless. Good and valid points from Wayne LaPierre. Those who oppose this put all of our children at greater risk of a repeat of this past tragedy. The media has been eerily silent on this…

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searching for the Truth
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 12:17pm
The sound of ” Breaking Glass , ” is what confirmed for me from above that the NRA is correct.

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