Pretty Much The Entire Nation Thinks The NRA’s Plan To Put Armed Police In Schools Is Vile

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Today, National Rifle Association (NRA) EVP Wayne LaPierre unveiled a “plan” to place “armed police officers in every single school in this nation,” which was met with varying degrees of anger, confusion, hostility, and overall disgust.

READ: NRA Demands ‘Armed Police Officers In Every Single School’ After CT Massacre

Here’s a roundup.

NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg:

The NRA’s Washington leadership has long been out of step with its members, and never has that been so apparent as this morning. Their press conference was a shameful evasion of the crisis facing our country. Instead of offering solutions to a problem they have helped create, they offered a paranoid, dystopian vision of a more dangerous and violent America where everyone is armed and no place is safe.

Leadership is about taking responsibility, especially in times of crisis. Today the NRA’s lobbyists blamed everyone but themselves for the crisis of gun violence. While they promote armed guards, they continue to oppose the most basic and common sense steps we can take to save lives – not only in schools, but in our movie theaters, malls, and streets. Enough. As a country, we must rise above special interest politics. Every day, 34 Americans are murdered with guns.

That’s why 74 percent of NRA members support common sense restrictions like criminal background checks for anyone buying a gun. It is time for Americans who care about the Second Amendment and reasonable gun restrictions to join together to work with the President and Congress to stop the gun violence in this country.

 

 

 

 

NJ Governor Chris Christie:

“In general I don’t think that the solution to safety in schools is putting an armed guard because for it to be really effective in my view, from a law enforcement perspective, you have to have an armed guard at every classroom,” he said during an event in Newark Friday morning. “Because if you just have an armed guard at the front door then what if this guy had gone around to the side door? There’s many doors in and out of schools.”

And he said he doesn’t like the idea of having multiple armed guards inside schools. “I don’t necessarily think having an armed guard outside every classroom is conducive to a positive learning environment,” he said.

 

 

 

Former Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele:

“I don’t even know where to begin,” Steele said. “As a supporter of the Second Amendment and a supporter of the NRA, even though I’m not a member of the NRA, I just found it very haunting and very disturbing that our country now, that are talking about arming our teachers and our principals in classrooms. What does that say about us? And I do not believe that’s where the American people want to go. I do not believe that is the response that should be coming out of the tragedy in Newtown.”

 

 

 

 

 

Today the NRA came off as tone deaf, unwilling to address the real problem, & willfully blind to the problem it helped fuel. And irrelevant.

— Touré (@Toure) December 21, 2012

 

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