NRA calls for armed guards in every U.S. school Barely 90 minutes after the United States observed a moment of silence in memory of Newtown?s victims, the National Rifle Association revealed what is needed to stop more senseless tragedies like the one that forever changed the country a week ago: More guns.
No one should have been surprised by NRA executive vice-president?s Wayne LaPierre?s Friday call to place armed police guards in every U.S. school, even if the massacre of 20 children in Newtown was supposed to have changed the conversation on gun control.
The NRA did not become arguably the most powerful lobby group in the United States by caving in at the first sign of a fight.
Its move to use the Newtown tragedy to push its agenda for more guns, in a country that already has an estimated 250 million or so of them in private hands, is a warning to the politicians now contemplating gun control.
?We can't lose precious time debating legislation that won't work,? Mr. LaPierre insisted at a Friday ?press conference? at which he took no questions and was interrupted twice by gun control activists, one with a banner reading: ?The NRA is killing our children.?
The media, a strident Mr. LaPierre added, ?perpetuate the dangerous notion that one more gun ban ? or one more law imposed on peaceful, lawful people ? will protect us where 20,000 others have failed.?
For those hoping the NRA was about to turn over a new leaf when it said earlier this week that it intended to offer ?meaningful contributions? to prevent a repetition of Newtown, Friday?s let down was manifest.
No one expected the organization to outright endorse a new ban on assault weapons or high-capacity ammunition clips. But by signalling its active opposition to such measures, passing them just became a lot harder, if not impossible.
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