Wayne LaPierre, the Executive Vice President of the NRA, offered these words of "wisdom." He suggested that the answer is to further extend the right to bear arms to all. "The only thing that stops a bad guys with a gun, is a good guy with a gun." And if that was not bad enough, he proposes that we "militarize" every school in the nation. That "Congress should appropriate what ever is necessary to put armed police officers in every single school in this Nation." and proposes that a former prosecutor Asa Hutchinson, lead and NRA effort for that program. He holds up "thousands of music videos, and you all know this, portray life as a joke and portray murder as a way of life, and they have the nerve to call this entertainment, but is that what it really is?" as the real reason why people commit senseless violence, and says that "Isn't fantasizing about killing people as a way to get your kicks really the filthiest form of pornography?"
As Irin Carmon of Salon.Com said on Now w/Alex Wagner that LaPierre effectively "Spit in the faces of the families of the victim of Sandy Hook Elementary." Sam Stein pointed out that gun violence doesn't only happens in schools so by LaPierre's logic, we need armed guards in Sikh Temples, shopping malls and movie theaters . . . and what he's advocating is incredibly anti massive expansion of government."
LaPierre offered nothing near to a reasonable suggestion, as an answer to the gun violence, love of gun culture in America, or an assault weapons ban, but reverted to the blame game, and the dig in deeper position that the NRA consistently takes after a tragedy occurs as a result of gun use.
What do you say?
As Irin Carmon of Salon.Com said on Now w/Alex Wagner that LaPierre effectively "Spit in the faces of the families of the victim of Sandy Hook Elementary." Sam Stein pointed out that gun violence doesn't only happens in schools so by LaPierre's logic, we need armed guards in Sikh Temples, shopping malls and movie theaters . . . and what he's advocating is incredibly anti massive expansion of government."
LaPierre offered nothing near to a reasonable suggestion, as an answer to the gun violence, love of gun culture in America, or an assault weapons ban, but reverted to the blame game, and the dig in deeper position that the NRA consistently takes after a tragedy occurs as a result of gun use.
What do you say?
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