NRA leader advocates guns for teachers
All options should be considered to prevent rampages like the Minnesota school shooting that took 10 lives - including making guns available to teachers, a top National Rifle Association leader said Friday.
“I’m not saying that that means every teacher should have a gun or not, but what I am saying is we need to look at all the options at what will truly protect the students,” the NRA’s first vice president, Sandra S. Froman, told The Associated Press.
Gun-control restrictions would not have prevented Jeff Weise, 16, from killing nine people and himself Monday at Red Lake High School near Bemidji, Minn., said Froman, an attorney expected next month to be elected president of the NRA, which claims 4 million members.
The presence of an unarmed guard at the school failed to stop the siege, she noted.
What amazes me is people who consider an unarmed guard to be security… The NRA is making sense here. Let the teachers carry guns (those who can and will). Not that many will listen.
His granddad was a policeman, one of the permitted gun owners in the gun control world. The law doubly arms shooters when it disarms victims.
Comment by Walter E. Wallis — 26 Mar, 2005 @ 11:35
As a deterrent - and final protection of the innocent aboard - We armed pilots when they volunteer and had sufficient training. Why not arm school security at the least - and qualified volunteeers from the staff? It would be for the same thing: to deter such lunacy, and as a last resort to protect the innocent from the murderous.
Comment by OldSpook — 27 Mar, 2005 @ 13:52
Massacres never seem to happen at shooting ranges. I wonder why?
Comment by Ken Summers — 28 Mar, 2005 @ 09:17