NRA: Put Armed Officers in Every Parkway School
Parkway School officials asked law enforcement to up their presence by having patrol officers check in at elementary schools. Local police say they're working hard to protect students.
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NRA: Put Armed Officers in Every Parkway School
Parkway School officials said they have already asked law enforcement to up their presence by having patrol officers check in at elementary schools.
Posting an armed officer in every Parkway and Rockwood school and in schools across the country is the goal of the National Rifle Association (NRA), the guns-rights lobby announced on Friday. (For instant news updates follow Patch on Facebook and Twitter.) "The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun," said Wayne LaPierre, the organization's top lobbyist, at a Friday news conference, according to a Huffington Post report. The statement comes on the heels of the tragic school shooting in Newtown, CT, where 20 children and six adults were killed. NRA had remained silent until Wednesday, when it first announced its intention to offer "meaningful contributions to help make sure this never happens again." The …
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Monday, December 17, 2012
St. Louis County Police Chief Wants to Arm School Officials With Guns
In the wake of the Newtown, CT school massacre, St. Louis County Police Chief Tim Fitch will visit schools this week to discuss increasing security, including putting guns in elementary schools.
St. Louis County Police Chief Tim Fitch and police officers will begin visiting St. Louis County schools Monday morning, according to KMOV. (For instant updates follow Patch on Facebook and Twitter.) Fitch said he's received numerous calls from area schools concerned about security since Friday's mass shooting in a Newtown, CT elementary school. Fitch acknowledges that most high schools and some middle schools, including those in West County, have armed school resource officers. However, elementary schools are not normally protected by officers. Fitch wants to see armed resource officers or armed school officials in those schools, according to KSDK. He points out that Sandy Hook Elementary School conducted threat drills and locked its …
Karl Frank Jr.
11:33 am on Friday, March 8, 2013
LOL. I don't know who you think you saw...but it wasn't me. more ›
Kem Mogannam
11:31 am on Wednesday, December 26, 2012
One of the NRA's purposes in life is to promote gun sales. This is a fact. Gun manufacturers actually pay the NRA for every one of their guns that is sold. This is a dirty little secret that the NRA and the gun manufacturers don't want you to know about, but it's true (Google it and find out). Therefore, the NRA actually has a monetary incentive to get us to buy more guns. They won't be happy … more ›