"The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun," the NRA's Wayne LaPierre said.
At a Friday morning press conference in Washington, D.C., the National Rifle Association broke its weeklong silence following the shooting of 26 people at a school in Newtown, Conn., and called for a surge of gun-carrying "good guys" around American schools. NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre called for a new kind of American domestic security revolving around armed civilians, arguing that "the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun." "We care about our president, so we protect him with armed Secret Service agents," LaPierre said. "Members of Congress work in offices surrounded by Capitol Police officers. Yet, when it comes to our most beloved, innocent and vulnerable members of the American family, …
In light of the Newtown, Conn., shootings major retailers across the county are pulling certain assault weapons from their shelves. The National Rifle Association has even issued a statement that it’s ready to make “meaningful contributions.”
As the cry for tighter gun control laws sounds louder throughout America and right here in Tampa Bay, major retailers are reacting. Walmart has announced plans to stop selling the Bushmaster Patrolman's Carbine M4A3 Rifle through its online store. That particular assault rifle is in the same family of guns as the one Adam Lanza, the 20-year-old shooter in the Newtown massacre, reportedly used in the massacre, the Huffington Post reports. Dick’s Sporting Goods, which has a number of Tampa Bay area locations, has also announced a shift in its stocking preferences. That store has suspended the sale of some semi-automatic weapons from all stores in the chain. In a statement, the store said it ordered the move out of respect for the victims …
Jay Shaw
8:52 am on Saturday, December 22, 2012
I agree 100% with armed protection for our children and LaPierre. Passing a law won't stop people from killing and rounding up everyone's firearms was Hitler's idea. What more would it cost to have one cop or one armed guard at every school? I bet you a million that every parent who lost a child to a gunman now wishes there was someone there to protect them. If we are such a great country we … more ›