Tell me all about this proposed "national program" to which you are referring.
What other than a Federal program would it take to put an armed police officer in every school?
The NRA is no friend to liberty. Given Sandy Hook, expect to see a revival of their support for the Our Lady of Peace Act. They are also on record having supported limiting magazine sizes (NRA Director says five rounds is enough).
"The National Rifle Association has been in support of workable, enforceable gun control legislation since its very inception in 1871." NRA Executive Vice President Franklin L. Orth, NRA's American Rifleman Magazine, March 1968, P. 22
As we saw with FIST, the government willfully violates the law to use computerized background checks as equivalent to gun registration. The NRA continues to support background checks. As far as I am concerned, a background check is equivalent to national registration. So is the membership list. So is posting on this thread. Take your head out of your butt and get real.
Federal funding of a police force in every school. Yup. That's about what I said: