La Pierre said this as a call to action:
"I call on Congress today to act immediately, to appropriate whatever is necessary to put armed police officers in every school — and to do it now, to make sure that blanket of safety is in place when our children return to school in January."
OK, so how are we going to pay for the increase in security for our schools and public places. The money should come from (sin) taxes put on the items that contribute to the problem: guns, and violent movies/video games that glorify shooting others. Chris Dodd of MPAA has stepped up to the plate to help, why not the NRA?
Like many other things in our society the munnitions companies want to privatize the profits and socialize the losses. If their industry contributes to the problem they should help pay for the solution.
1. Put a 1-10 cent tax on all bullets, $20+ tax on all magazines over 10 (with and progressive tax for the higher bullet magazines), and a $50 tax on the automatic and semi-automatic weapons (that can easily be converted to automatic). The proceeds from this tax go to pay for security at public places.
2. Require insurance for all guns purchased. Cars are not deadly if used correctly, yet in most states not only to they require a license but proof of insurance in order to drive. If guns had insurance coverage (with proceeds going to compensate victims of shootings as well as to help fund public place security) the free market would help determine which guns are more affordable, because the insurance companies would charge ridiculous rates for weapons most commonly used in crimes.

You're asking us to view the entire clip and decide for ourselves....I could not sit through the live feed of this psycho pig. Had to turn it off halfway through.

In addition to his crazy talk, his body language was disingenuous, rehearsed, phony, alarmingly nasty.

He's crazy, and for some reason, America is trying to make sense of a psychopath's words.

He basically says that bullets are the answers. If I wrote that here, you'd boot me off. But a psycho can get on national TV and proudly proclaim it...and with an American flag in the background.

We have an endless stream of rich and famous psychopaths ruling over us.

And I have no idea on how to turn it off.

LaPierre isn't going to back down, he personally pulls in a mil a year from the dupes...

Did they really sweep the press for guns before allowing them into the news conference?

I promise that I will not vote for anyone that is in the NRA. That is my promise and I will work to get other people to make the same promise.

I've never read such a load of BS in my life, you post one video of an immature kid in a firearms training class and think you've actually 'debunked' something? I bet you're one of the people that think Obama is 'giving' us health care, I pity Americans such as yourself.

Guns for everyone will clearly not be enough.

We should also have minefields placed around every school, residence, and business. Machine guns should be mounted on every motor vehicle. But still that won't be enough.

We must develop new technology that will turn TVs and other household appliances into assault weapons or perhaps low yield nuclear bombs. We need this as an added protection against home invasion to guard against the intruders YOU KNOW ARE COMING getting control of our arsenals.

We should have tanks for everyone who wants one. Only makes sense if you want to be safe.

We must also start weaponizing our pets to make sure they are not used against us. But that still won't be enough.

We must have plastic explosives surgically implanted in all our bodily organs so that the bad guys won't be able to use our own bodies against ourselves by harvesting our organs. But still that won't be enough.

We need to have space lasers capable of targeting anything that moves on earth and start using them 24/7 so the bad guys don't try anything. If you don't move, what do you have to worry about? But still that won't be enough.

And that's the problem. I don't see what could ever be enough for these advocates of control through the capacity for ever greater violence. The mindset requires us to perpetually up the ante.

Almost enough to make one wish the world DOES end today. Save everybody a lot of endless fear and trouble.

Let’s ignore, for the moment, the correlation between the number of guns and the number of homicides, as documented by the Harvard School of Public Health.

Let’s ignore, for the moment, that the murder rate in Chicago, where gun control is virtually non-existent, is 19.4 per 100.000 inhabitants. That figure is more than 13.8 times greater than the murder rate in London (1.4 per 100,000 inhabitants) where there is strict control.

Let’s ignore, for the moment, the fact that the presence of armed police officers on campus did not prevent the respective slaughters at Columbine HS and VA Tech.

Here’s just one more little fact that demonstrates why LaPierre’s call for more guns (and more profits for the domestic small arms industry) is not simply immoral and repugnant but remarkably stupid!

Go back and review the list of mass murders since 1966 that I recently provided. They didn’t just occur in schools and colleges campuses. They occurred in post offices, at places of employment, inside a fitness club, in shopping malls, markets, theaters and restaurants, in a law office, on the Long Island Railroad, inside police headquarters, on a military base, in a Cal Trans Maintenance Yard, inside the Capital building in Washington DC, in a church library, inside a Sikh Temple, on the streets and inside homes.

Even if we were to illogically assume that armed cops on campuses would decrease rather than increase the likely carnage, if we were to follow LaPierre’s logic (or lack thereof), armed police officers would have to be everywhere and anywhere, even inside our homes.

Oh, one other point, for those who’ve never served in combat. Ever hear of the danger posed by “friendly fire?”

Enjoyed your play on the absurdity, David Lasagna @7.

But if we really wanted bring denial of the need for gun control to the ultimate reductio ad absurdum, we could simply arm all the 6-year-olds with a nuclear trigger and a T-shirt that reads, "Shoot me and we all die!"

Tsb2011 said @ 6:

I've never read such a load of BS in my life, you post one video of an immature kid in a firearms training class and think you've actually 'debunked' something?

Uh...apparently you didn't actually bother to watch that video, didja? Yup, if I were you, I'd hide behind a pseudonym too. That way, only you know who the guy is who made that really embarrassing comment.

I bet you're one of the people that think Obama is 'giving' us health care

Dude. You're 0 for 2. Wanna play some high-stakes poker? I'm in!

Ernie Canning said @ 9:

Let’s ignore, for the moment, that the murder rate in Chicago, where gun control is virtually non-existent, is 19.4 per 100.000 inhabitants is more than 13.8 times greater than the murder rate in London (1.4 per 100,000 inhabitants) where there is strict control.

Yeah, maybe. But you're forgetting that London has no access to video games, Hollywood movies and that there are not now, nor have there ever been, mentally ill people who live there. Try to keep up, Ernie.

Yup, your right Brad. "There has never been a psychotic killer in London" according to Jack the Ripper.