I thought the NRA tactic of throwing the issue back at the politicos-who are out and about being the idiots they are as if only THEY can solve these sorts of matters-to be pure genius.
LaPierre said to hire an armed guard at every school.
Of course, that’s not likely, if not impossible.
BUT....
heh.....
Let the politicians go out and defend against this suggestion. Imagine it now....
Joe Blow politico got the microphone. He rails on and on about the need for gun control, perhaps the very, very stupid “assault weapons” ban. Someone shouts out that why don’t we get armed guards in all schools.
What’s the politician going to say?
“It’s just too expensive to hire guards for every school in America,” he might respond.
Heh.
What a perfectly horrible answer that would be. Don’t this guy care about our children?
It was genius cause Americans know those politicians spend money for all kinds of stupid stuff. Should they collectively deny funds for guards at schools they will make Americans all across the fruited plains angry as hell.
Kudos to the NRA for doing what the pubs do not, or simply can not, do. Which is to use the talk and sight bytes to affect political thinking across the fruited plains.
So since the politicos don’t want to walk into that trap they just might shut up about gun control.
Good strategy.
Well, if there was such a thing as reality, you could fire an overpaid/ineffective teacher, and fund two armed guards.
Brilliant of La Pierre. He just sounds so “sensible” and talks to the average parent,citizen.
Unless, of course, all the schools are inside the security area at an airport. Then we have TSA in charge of solving the problem. What could go wrong with that?
Remember when Bill Clinton came out with his '100,000 new cops' plan to help curb crime? IIRC, the press loved it. This should be brought up when people start dissing the NRA's plan.