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NRA Calls for Armed Officers in Schools

December 21, 2012

By GARY FIELDS And COLLEEN MCCAIN NELSON, The Wall Street Journal
WASHINGTON—The nation’s most powerful gun-rights lobby called Friday for armed security guards in schools, saying that children had been left vulnerable in their classrooms.

“The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun,” said Wayne LaPierre executive vice president of the NRA said at a news conference Friday morning.

Holly Thomas, a member of the Washington, D.C., chapter of One Million Moms for Gun Control, called the NRA plan “an appalling idea.” With tears in her eyes she said the organization held a news conference “only to say nothing.”

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