This morning, NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre stared down a liberally-dominated media, along with a political class and a culture that have failed to protect our children, and called on Congress to place an armed law officer in every single school in America, pledging NRA resources and members for training and implementation...and to do it NOW to have genuine security in place as soon as our kids return to school in January.
Imagine that...real solutions!
Out of respect for those grieving families, and until the facts are known, the NRA has refrained from comment. While some have tried to exploit tragedy for political gain, we have remained respectfully silent.
Now, we must speak … for the safety of our nation's children. Because for all the noise and anger directed at us over the past week, no one — nobody — has addressed the most important, pressing and immediate question we face: How do we protect our children right now, starting today, in a way that we know works?
The only way to answer that question is to face up to the truth. Politicians pass laws for Gun-Free School Zones. They issue press releases bragging about them. They post signs advertising them. And in so doing, they tell every insane killer in America that schools are their safest place to inflict maximum mayhem with minimum risk.
How have our nation's priorities gotten so far out of order? Think about it. We care about our money, so we protect our banks with armed guards. American airports, office buildings, power plants, courthouses — even sports stadiums — are all protected by armed security.
We care about the President, so we protect him with armed Secret Service agents. Members of Congress work in offices surrounded by armed Capitol Police officers.
Yet when it comes to the most beloved, innocent and vulnerable members of the American family — our children — we as a society leave them utterly defenseless, and the monsters and predators of this world know it and exploit it. That must change now!
RIGHT ON!
(Here's a link to the entire speech)
Yet...aside from the early CodeStink disruptions, it is apparent that the adults aren't running the show, with the press shouting at the end, "Is there no discussion with the White House?" followed by press jeers, with the microphones still on mind you (at least from what I heard on CSPAN), of "That was bullshit" and "Slimy." How about that objective journalism? Nowhere near either of those words...
The cold, hard truth of the matter is that LaPierre is absolutely right. We've secured all these other institutions deemed worthy of armed protection, but as a society have neglected our most precious commodity: our children. And the Left has once again seized upon another tragedy, calling for more gun control restrictions, and thinking that alone will make all of us safer. Sadly, another hideous massacre has flat out disproved that theory. The time for hiding and covering our eyes is over..."The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun."
