NRA LIES AND IDIOTIC SUGGESTIONS.
One could create a long list of NRA
lies, such as the United Nations wants to set up a registry for U.S. gun
owners. But suffice it to mention
two recent NRA falsehoods.:
Doyle McManus of the L.A. Times
points out that the NRA, in its
recent propaganda campaign, is
stoking fears that background checks, that Obama favors , will lead to a national gun registry,
despite the fact that the bill involved specifically states that it will
prohibit one.
McManus further states that the NRA and its supporters claim
that expanded background checks
could force fathers to ask permission from the federal government before giving
guns to their sons, even thought the Senate proposal exempts family
transactions.
Also of great interest is the
absurd suggestion, made a few days ago that there be armed guards in every
American school.
Credit Mary Noble of Pollitix:
The new NRA-backed recommendations
to have a trained armed guard in every school will be prohibitively expensive
and unworkable.
The NRA-sponsored “School Shield”
report calls for all
schools to have either a School Resource Officer (a member of law enforcement),
or an armed member of school personnel who’s received 60-80 hours of training.
“The armed guard approach would be
prohibitively expensive,” says Erich Pratt, director of communications at Gun Owners of
America. “At any one time there are 135,000 police on duty in the
country, and there are about that many schools. That shows you how huge of a
deal it would be.”
The cost could be upwards of $5
billion dollars, according to Bruce Hunter of the School
Superintendents Association, who estimates that each officer costs
$50-80,000 per year. Others put
the total figure at around $6.6 billion.
At a time of nation-wide educational
cutbacks the suggestion that there be armed guards in every school is stupid
and absurd.
One can only anticipate what lies
and ridiculous propositions the
NRA will put forward as the gun debate continues.
