Wayne LaPierre has done quite a job for the NRA of late.
However....that's not necessarily a compliment.
The mayor of Philadelphia is not impressed. He lambasted LaPieere's 'everybody needs an amed guard' idea as 'untenable'.
“[A] guy sets a fire, firefighters come, and he basically tries to take target practice, and picks off a number of them, killing two, injuring another two, damaging other people’s homes,” Nutter said. “I guess, out of last week’s bizarre press statement — it wasn’t a press conference — I guess Mr. [Wayne] LaPierre would say that firefighters need to have armed guards go with them. I think it just shows that that was a completely dumbass idea from the start.”
LaPieere's - and apparently therefore the NRA's - idea of needing to have 'good guys with guns' practially everywhere is, to me, the death knell at least of LaPierre's usefulness to the NRA if not the main NRA ideology that more guns are better than less guns.
The Webster shooter had done hard time for murdering his own grandma historically and most was forbidden to have any firearms: he had a Bushmaster AR-15, just like the gun used at Sandy Hook, along with a variety of weapons.
Authorities do not know how Spengler -- who was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound hours after the four firefighters were shot -- obtained the weapon or weapons he used or why he opened fire, Pickering told reporters. As a convicted felon, Spengler was not allowed to legally possess weapons, but he had "several different types of weapons" Monday, the police chief said.
So as Americans discuss how to thwart these events before they occur, attention must be placed on how to curtail people from illegally obtaining these weapons.
But putting armed guards everywhere we might want to go - that's a dumbass idea from the start.