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Monday, December 24, 2012

NRA Calls for 'Armed Security' Around Schools

"The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun," the NRA's Wayne LaPierre said.

In an Friday morning press conference, the Fairfax-based National Rifle Association broke its weeklong silence following the horrific shooting of 26 people at a school in Newtown, Conn., and called for a surge of gun-carrying "good guys" around American schools. NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre called for a new kind of American domestic security revolving around armed civilians, arguing that "the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun." "We care about our president, so we protect him with armed Secret Service agents," LaPierre said. "Members of Congress work in offices surrounded by Capitol Police officers. Yet, when it comes to our most beloved, innocent, and vulnerable members of the American …

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Don Joy

8:46 am on Thursday, December 27, 2012

So basically, Mary, posters on Patch can say derogatory things about white males, no problem, but in reply one cannot frankly describe the attitudes of that era about racial issues, because that wouldn't be politically correct. Congratulations on being just another example of journalistic cowardice and the left-wing agenda. Oh, I'm sure you'll deny my characterization of your operation and …   more ›

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

McLean Morning Report

Latest McLean News-Tuesday October 10

Morning Briefing

Good Morning Neighbors, NRA Grades McLean General Assembly Candidates. Republicans receive A's. Democrats receive F's. 30 minute Beltway Delays Resume. Beltway an obstacle course this week overnight with lots of lane closings. It's a mess. McLean Crime. Recent incidents. Reminder: Local and state candidates appear at candidates forum in Great Falls tonight.

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