Gun Owners of America has long condemned so-called "gun-free school zones," as has Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership, and now the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.
Why, at this posting, is their no official statement on any of the NRA websites in response to this turmoil? After all, they tell us they're the leaders in the Second Amendment movement, and they have the membership and resources to prove it.
The only statements we have on the Association's official position include the one Wayne LaPierre issued at the annual meeting in 1999:
First, we believe in absolutely gun-free, zero-tolerance, totally safe schools. That means no guns in America's schools, period ... with the rare exception of law enforcement officers or trained security personnel.and president Sandra Froman's recent backpedaling:
The only people that ought to have firearms in the schools are law enforcement and trained security personnel.
It's past time for NRA members to repudiate LaPierre and Froman's positions and demand they change them to conform to the clear "shall not be infringed" intent of the Framers. That means there's an "or else" if they don't.
Wayne doesn't dare do or say anything that will make the solution apparent. If he helps solve the problems, he threatens his high lifestyle.
ReplyDeleteThe nogoodnik sold me out for the last time when I cancelled my membership, now he can only sell out his members. Every time I receive a letter asking me to rejoin, I send a reply that I will as soon as they start defending the second amendment and not LaPierre's perks.
When they fire Wayne and quit being a marketing club and actually become a rights movement I will rejoin. Until then I can name a plethora of people willing to deal away my rights, and I don't even have to pay them dues.
Ban Public Schools.
ReplyDeleteToo many targets in one place. Children should either be homeschooled, or taught in a private acadamy with proper security in place.
Having a government agency gather children and try to be responsible for their safety is a disaster waiting to happen.
Kristopher said - "Having a government agency gather children and try to be responsible for their safety is a disaster waiting to happen."
ReplyDeleteYeah, think Hitler, Mao and Stalin did that. Talk about results!
I was making this point earlier. So many gun owners are talking about changing the national policy on gun free zones. Arming teachers, blah, blah, blah. All well and good...
ReplyDeleteYet, gun owners' largest organization, the NRA, continues to support these defenseless unarmed victim zones.
Let's change the policy of the NRA elites.
After which we MIGHT be able to get a major political party to change it's platform, (both Rs and Ds support disarmed school zones). Finally, laws could be abolished that ever gave this idiotic idea wings.
Then I stop myself and realize this is just another reason why there NEVER should have been government schools (p.e.r.i.o.d.) And waiting for government to give back an inalienable right is an oxymoron. At which point I step back and watch the meltdown continue.
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