The National Rifle Association on Friday announced it's plan and support for putting armed police officers in every school in the country as a way to avoid tragedies like the 26 deaths at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut.
"I call on Congress today to appropriate whatever is necessary to put armed police officers in every single school in this nation," Wayne LaPierre, the NRA's executive vice president, said at a press conference in Washington, D.C. There, he unveiled the National School Shield NRA Education and Training Emergency Response program, to be headed up by former Arkansas U.S. Rep. Asa Hutchinson.
Under the proposed program, schools would be permitted to tailor the type of security desired to their school's situation or refuse it altogether.
"Innocent lives might have been spared," LaPierre said, if armed security was present. "The only thing that stops bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun."
LaPierre, Hutchison and David Keene, president of the NRA, all declined to take questions from the press Friday and said NRA press officers won't be responding to the media until Monday.
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