NRA: Armed guards for schools is the answer

Why would you be against this? Besides giving the people in the school a chance. It could create alot of jobs for veterans/citizens by increasing the police force size or creating a new force. Uniforms would have to be made, contracts for gun manufacturers.

I understand people might want to shelter their kids from something like this, but something must be done.

It wont acomplish anything, just a grandiose idea to say they are tackling the problem.   Is one armed security guard or cop guarding an entire school goign to prevent this from happening again?  With the class sizes now days worst could happen before even the security officer finds out whats happening.

Next time, and i hope there isnt one, the ones will be to placed 2, then 3, then 4....I guess that represents more gun sales

What are they paying for?

Even if you think this is a good idea...who is paying for this? The NRA did not say anything about funding the whole program. So now you are asking counties or cities, which are cutting education spending left and right, to pay for this? If its volunteers, who protects them in case of lawsuits, wrongful deaths, etc?

Well, I don't think their idea will work any better than removing guns from the hands of stable law abiding citizens. So, both sides of the issue have proposed bone headed solutions to the problem. Next?

People with guns protect the president. Glad to have been able to clear that up for ya. Merry Christmas GB.

Or we can just make it impossible for law abiding citizens to get ahold of guns but really do nothing that prevents someone who has already chosen to break the law from obtaining a gun and shooting up a school. Do you really think that criminals follow gun control laws?

I would rather have someone on scene who can respond in under 5 minutes than rely on the police who can take a while. I think if the parents at Sandy Hook were given the choice between having their kid walk past someone with a gun or be shot by a lunatic with a gun they would choose the former every time. 

And it is a bit sensationalist to portray heavily armed guards in fatigues carrying M4's and grenades rather than imagining a plain clothes security guard with a concealed handgun. In reality the kids would probably never notice the difference. 

I am a proud owner of 3 guns.

None of my guns would most likely ever be banned by laws or restrictions.

I never belonged to the NRA, nor will I ever join, nor would I ever give them my money.

This gun owner doesn't believe in the tactics or message of the NRA.  And I don't believe I'm unique in being a gun-owning, anti-NRA individual.  I think their ideas are warped and wrong.  I think their "house of cards" argument has been used for centuries for combating things like communism and gay marriage and they always turn out to be wrong.  I think Wayne LaPierre and the rest of the NRA leadership are idiots.

Banning magazines or guns that can hold above 16 rounds, armor-piercing ammunition, and weapons that could be easily converted to fully automatic, wouldn't affect or bother me one bit.  I believe in an individual's rights to purchase a legal gun, but also that a thorough background check, mental health exam, household exam (if anyone else living in the home wouldn't qualify), and even a practical exam, is perfectly fine by me.  If it takes you a month to get a gun, then it takes you a month.  What if Adam Landa's mother were banned from keeping a gun in her home because of who her son was?  There are tighter restrictions on getting a driver's license in some states.

And I don't think these types of restrictions would lead down a "slippery slope" or a "house of cards" to where the government would be searching homes and confiscating any and all firearms.

Duly noted, still against it.  I also said nothing about criminals following the law.