“If armed security makes us less safe, let’s just go ahead and remove it from everywhere,” he continued. Wayne LaPierre, the executive director and CEO of the National Rifle Association, said schools would be safer if they had more people with guns. “To stop a bad guy with a gun, it takes a good guy with a gun,” LaPierre told the crowd at CPAC, using his oft-repeated ― and debated ― catchphrase. But teachers and advocacy groups working to prevent gun violence bashed this proposal, noting that educators were struggling to get funding for basic classroom supplies, much less firearms. Despite the NRA’s lobbying efforts to limit universal background checks that would stop so-called “bad guys” from getting guns, LaPierre said Thursday that his organization was contributing “real solutions” on gun violence.

Source: Huffington Post February 22, 2018 15:35 UTC