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Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting

Saturday, December 22, 2012

NRA: Put ‘Armed Police Officers’ in Every School

In a press conference held Friday morning, the head of the NRA called for armed police officers to guard our nations schools

During its first press conference since the Sandy Hook School shooting last Friday, the National Rifle Association (NRA) called for schools to be armed with police officers. "The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun," said NRA executive Wayne LaPierre. He said school children defenseless "and the predators of the world know it and exploit it." LaPierre urged Congress  ”to appropriate whatever is necessary to put armed police officers in every school in this nation. What do you think about the NRA's call for armed police officers in our schools? Tell us in the comments!

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Naome Lixes

8:31 am on Wednesday, December 26, 2012

I'm not sure I can evaluate Dianne Feinstien's mental status, nor do I think anyone with a school age child can be rational about this. Certainly those advocating gun-rights appear to do so from an irrational position. We've spent more on less ambitious plans. ($2.9B Cash for clunkers) This, coupled with a confiscate and convict statute afterwards will at the very least reduce the number of …   more ›

Friday, December 21, 2012

Chafee Declares Friday Day of Mourning

The following was provided by the Office of Governor Chafee

  Governor Lincoln Chafee has declared Friday, December 21, 2012 – the one-week anniversary of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT – a "Day of Mourning" in the State of Rhode Island. To honor the memory of the 26 victims who lost their lives in the shootings, the governor also called for a statewide moment of silence at 9:30 a.m. on that day and has asked that buildings, which have the ability, ring bells 26 times during that moment in honor of each life that was taken. "The past week has been one of great pain for the community of Newtown, the State of Connecticut, and our country as a whole," Governor Chafee said. "Each day, we see reports of funeral services for children taken from their families too soon …

RU Serious?

10:32 pm on Tuesday, December 25, 2012

In case you haven't noticed, JoAnne deletes all of his comments when pressed over them. He seems to think that makes everyone else look as dumb as him.   more ›

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