NRA wants armed guards in every school. Will that make schools safer or raise risks?
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After its low profile following the Newtown shooting, the NRA today called for armed officers in every school.
“The truth is that our society is populated by an unknown number of genuine monsters — people so deranged, so evil, so possessed by voices and driven by demons that no sane person can possibly ever comprehend them. They walk among us every day. And does anybody really believe that the next Adam Lanza isn’t planning his attack on a school he’s already identified at this very moment?” said NRA spokesman Wayne LaPierre at a news conference interrupted by a protester holding the sign “NRA is killing our kids.”
He continued: “How many more copycats are waiting in the wings for their moment of fame — from a national media machine that rewards them with the wall-to-wall attention and sense of identity that they crave — while provoking others to try to make their mark?”
LaPierre’s comments brought immediate rebuke: “He envisions a world in which the only way to stop a school shooting is to welcome school shootouts,” opined the New York Daily News.
I suspect the NRA response will also have its advocates, including a reader who sent me a one-word response: “Bravo.”
Here is an excerpt from the AP report on today’s NRA news conference:
The group’s top lobbyist, Wayne LaPierre, said at a Washington news conference that “the next Adam Lanza,” the man responsible for last week’s mayhem, is planning an attack on another school.
“The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun,” LaPierre said.
He blamed video games, movies and music videos for exposing children to a violent culture day in and day out.
“In a race to the bottom, many conglomerates compete with one another to shock, violate, and offend every standard of civilized society, by bringing an even more toxic mix of reckless behavior and criminal cruelty right into our homes,” LaPierre said.
LaPierre announced that former Rep. Asa Hutchison, R-Ark., will lead an NRA program that will develop a model security plan for schools that relies on armed volunteers.
Since the slayings, President Barack Obama has demanded “real action, right now” against U.S. gun violence and called on the NRA to join the effort. Moving quickly after several congressional gun-rights supporters said they would consider new legislation to control firearms, the president said this week he wants proposals to reduce gun violence that he can take to Congress by January.
Obama has already asked Congress to reinstate an assault weapons ban that expired in 2004 and pass legislation that would stop people from purchasing firearms from private sellers without a background check. Obama also has indicated he wants Congress to pursue the possibility of limiting high-capacity magazines.
Earlier this week, the National Association of School Resource Officers sent out this information
MO CANADY, NASRO EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: “A well-trained, armed SRO is one of the best defenses against an active shooter. We provide training to school-based police officers on sound tactics that save lives during a shooting attack.
“While an SRO is essential, school safety requires collaboration between multiple agencies and parties. No single group or person, including an SRO, can effectively improve safety alone. We urge involvement by parents, cafeteria staff, janitorial staff, counselors, nurses and even students, as appropriate.”
FAQs
Are SROs trained to deal with armed assailants?
Yes. NASRO provides specialized training to SROs on how to properly respond to an active shooter in a sound way. And while NASRO designed the training for SROs, the organization offers it to all law enforcement officers. The tactics that NASRO teaches would also be effective with armed assailants in other settings, such as shopping centers, offices, etc.
How many schools have SROs? Do elementary schools have them?
SROs are not that common in elementary schools. NASRO has 5,000 members who are SROs and there are many more SROs across the nation. We estimate that there are approximately 10,000 school-based police officers across the country.
Can parents get involved in school security?
NASRO recommends that every school have a security team that includes school administrators, teachers, cafeteria staff, janitorial staff, counselors, nurses, students and parents. Here are some ways parents can be involved:
•Ask for a town-hall style meeting on security. Such meetings allow interested parties to voice concerns, get questions answered, examine new issues, etc. These meetings should occur on a regular basis, not just in response to recent tragedies.
•Gain an understanding of the security policies at your school. Find out if parents were involved in designing the policy.
•Consider serving as a parent member of the security team to help with policies.
•Get to know your school’s SRO, if the school has one.
•If you don’t have an SRO, work with your school’s administrators on ways to get funding for an SRO.
Will the Connecticut school shooting be a catalyst for change, in the same way school security changed after the campus rampages that occurred between 1993-1999?
NASRO hopes so. School security procedures have limitations. Not every school can implement every option that is available. Schools must be safe havens, not prisons, so each school must find the right balance. But we must protect every school from violence in all of its forms. This includes children who bring weapons to school, violent attacks from outsiders, theft, drugs, bullying, etc.
STATS
There were 33 school-associated violent deaths during the 2009-2010 school year. In 2010, among students ages 12 to18, there were approximately 828,000 nonfatal victimizations at schools, including 359,000 victims of violence.
In 2009-2010, 74 percent of public schools recorded one or more violent incidents.
CDC study:
In 2009, 5.6 percent of children nationwide carried a weapon onto school property on at least one day in the 30 days prior to the survey.
Nationwide, 17.5 percent of students had carried a weapon (e.g., a gun, knife, or club) on at least one day during the 30 days before the survey.
–From Maureen Downey, for the AJC Get Schooled blog
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Jay
December 21st, 2012
3:51 pm
I assume that the NRA also asked for a tax on gun and ammo sales to help pay for the SRO across the land
Paul
December 21st, 2012
3:52 pm
Generally, the people who have perpetrated mass shootings in school came in with weaponary that was far superior to what an SRO or other employed security. Also, if I heard correctly that it was suggested that “volunteers” with licensed firearms be enlisted to provide additional security we have to remember that George Zimmerman was a volunteer of sorts and we see how well that worked. The experts will tell you that a person who is committed to doing violence on a group of people will be able to accomplish to some degree eactly what it is that they are trying to do. They have the advantage of when and how, and with what. That is hard for a single SRO to stop.
Ivan Cohen
December 21st, 2012
3:56 pm
If teachers are armed and have to use their weapons, liability issues will arise. Armed guards, let a law get passed that all 159 counties with public schools will have a campus patrol.
bootney farnsworth
December 21st, 2012
4:00 pm
@ missgrace
there is zero evidence it won’t.
there IS evidence, however, to illustrate what happens without them
bootney farnsworth
December 21st, 2012
4:01 pm
@ jason,
lets hope it will be dull for anyone posted at an elementary school.
Starik
December 21st, 2012
4:01 pm
“School Resource Officer” is a bit euphemistic, isn’t it? LaPierre is a nut, but he’s right in the second part of his suggestion – a nationwide database of the possibly dangerous mentally ill.
indigo
December 21st, 2012
4:04 pm
Dr. Proud Black Man.
I’m curious.
Exactly what is it you’re proud of?
bootney farnsworth
December 21st, 2012
4:04 pm
@ Bill & Ed,
based on what I’m reading, except for the radical fringe, the tide, if anything, is swinging away from nonsensical ban everything to lets deal with reality.
assuming they are legally obtained, it is not your business-or anyone elses- to tell a US citizen what kind of weapons they may or may not own.
bootney farnsworth
December 21st, 2012
4:09 pm
@ old man,
yes, shooting a gun is fun. it is also scary as hell and if you’re not careful you can get physically hurt.
now, really – why are you asking?
bootney farnsworth
December 21st, 2012
4:13 pm
the only possible volunteers which would be acceptable would be former/retired military who pass muster with the certification officials.
bootney farnsworth
December 21st, 2012
4:18 pm
I’m not interested in SROs.
I’m talking trained military or SWAT people with the power to make arrests.
bootney farnsworth
December 21st, 2012
4:25 pm
@ Paul
in all honesty, anyone that determined to cause mayhem is almost certainly gonna be successful.
and if they don’t have a gun, they’ll have something else. genuine fanatics and nutballs will find
a way. Tim McVeigh used fertilizer.
sad truth: if some psycho wants to kill, odds are they will.
but the general hoods, the not so convicted, the morons with little impulse control – these clowns can be stopped.
Paul
December 21st, 2012
4:26 pm
question for @bootney. I wonder who is going to pay for all of this ramped up security.
bootney farnsworth
December 21st, 2012
4:33 pm
@ Paul
that is one of the rubs, isn’t it? that was my first thought, too.
my guess- emphasis guess- would be from a tax on guns and ammo. also we can cut back a bit on things like US aid to foreign countries, say 15%.
bootney farnsworth
December 21st, 2012
4:35 pm
a possible example: when I was at GPC, we had an on campus security force. about 1 in 6 carried sidearms. i’m not sure, but I think there was an arsenal of bigger things if needed.
Ros Dalton
December 21st, 2012
4:46 pm
It’s human nature to witness a tragedy and feel the need to do something (anything) to try to prevent it from happening again. That being obvious, events like this are so rare and take on such a variety of forms that they are essentially impossible to prevent. Armed guards might help, or they might just add to the casualty total. Same with arming school employees. There’s no way to predict what might occur the next time a nut tries to shoot up a school.
What will not matter is any type of gun control legislation. There are enough weapons in private hands today to keep our citizenry swimming in guns until the Mayan calendar rolls over again, and no proposed legislation removes them from circulation. Additionally our nation has a porous border with a 3rd world country that has well established routes to move illegal goods in virtually at will.
I personally think that the best chance at preventing this type of school shooting is an increased emphasis on identifying and treating mental health problems in our country-but that’s just my guess, these things really are so random that the next individual to commit such an unimaginable act may well have a perfectly clean mental health history.
So I suggest we mourn. We hug our kids. We show gratitude that these tragedies are so incredibly rare… and we try to drive safely and teach our kids how to prevent heart disease, both of which are about ten thousand times more likely to save their lives than armed guards OR gun control legislation.
gun sense
December 21st, 2012
4:58 pm
still no dialogue about school security just gun control: for and against.
all of us should be in contact with our local school boards about school security; there are armed “guardians” in other states and it has worked. There are other locations that do not want anything on campus and that is their right as the community decides. There is not a one size fits all security protocol. Everyone has their view and you should let it be know in your community.
I think there should be some changes to gun laws, like magazine capacity; enforcing present gun laws; safety classes; or even age ranges for certain guns; bad thing is that last idea would not have helped CT.
Everyone wants their way but I think there can be a conseus of what a community would tolerate and not. I know what I want my community to do and its to never have an defensless teacher lunge at a shooter or find 18 kids with their teacher dead in a closet. Never again and not in my neighborhood.
Pride and Joy
December 21st, 2012
5:07 pm
Gun sense, I’ll follow your argument. Please show us the community where armed guards worked. Please show us the community with the armed guards at the school house door who PREVENTED a mass tragedy — and tell us the outcomes of everyone.
Most arguments involving armed guards at school house doors involve armed guards shooting a perp AFTER the perp shoots the kids.
That’s too late.
I want to PREVENT the shooter from shooting, not just shoot the shooter after he’s already killed some kids.
Please enlighten us.
Pride and Joy
December 21st, 2012
5:08 pm
Ros Dalton, sane people also commit crimes. So although I agree with you that we need to treat the mentally ill, that doesn’t prevent the murderers who are sane when they do it.
Pride and Joy
December 21st, 2012
5:10 pm
Bootney writes “would be former/retired military who pass muster with the certification officials.”
Uh…you did read about the military psychiatrist who opened fire in fort hood killing 11 people, right?
Kris
December 21st, 2012
5:12 pm
More school resource officers might be the answer, paid for by the NRA and additional TAX on all guns and license, and let that pay for the additional security.
Hire former solders that are all ready trained.
red herring
December 21st, 2012
5:16 pm
i have no problem with a security guard/police office at schools. i also have no problem with assault rifle bans and 30 round clip bans. i do have a problem with the left not wanting to take some of the blame due to violent movies/video games, etc.. a kid playing a violent game like that 4 to 6 hours a day will have a tendency not to see the finality in murder. there needs to limits placed on those type movies and games. there also needs to an improvement in how people are assessed for mental health issues– loners/long coats/black clothing all the time/etc should be clues. still we live in the land of the free and in order to keep those freedoms there will be some risks involved. whatever laws are passed on the basis of this event should be comprehensive and include all of my above comments.
gun sense
December 21st, 2012
5:16 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV8w5L0oKeM
oldtimer
December 21st, 2012
5:35 pm
I do think that a police officer in every school is a great idea. It would be a deterent. Restricting gun sale will not change anything. The criminals will still have what ever they want…they do…
luangtom
December 21st, 2012
5:53 pm
The proposal by the NRA is nothing new for many school districts. Right here in GA, there are already schools that have armed-security, generally POST-certified officers. It works. I suspect many programs are in danger, now that Federal funding has already been cut, as pointed out by the NRA today. Why?Why did the government, in its infinite wisdom choose to defund programs that save lives and keep the savory out of schools and at bay? This is definitely a question needing a firm response with an explanation.
I came down here from a small police department in MN. We had school-liason officers for years. They were added to our force to quell gang and drug-related problems. They worked. They also added to the community, in that these officers followed the calendars of the schools. When not in session, these officers were available to fill-in where needed for vacations, sick-days and extra-duty and events. The officers liked the added funds and the community did not have to hire an extra full-time officer to fill the temporary vacancies. It works. It will work in all school districts, if there is positive management of the program and over-sight.
luangtom
December 21st, 2012
5:56 pm
Read…UNsavory in the schools above…..sorry. My bad.
Jasonfightscrime
December 21st, 2012
5:56 pm
@Bootney
SROs are law enforcement officers with the power of arrest. Some are SWAT officers, but I don’t see the need for it. They do need to be well trained, and should have a rifle available in their car and secured at a location in the school.
For others, most active shooters commit suicide or surrender when they know the police are near. Columbine was an interesting case. The SRO there was in a gun fight with the shooters until he ran out of ammo. There was a lull in law enforcement action because of the current philosophy in law enforcement was to surround locations and call for SWAT. Under the current doctrine, law enforcement will move as rapidly as possible to where the shooter is to.neutralize him. The only role for SWAT with inactive shooter is to mop up after the shooter is dead or captured.
jconservative
December 21st, 2012
6:14 pm
So the proposal is for armed guards in schools. What about the school kids on school buses? Do we put armed officers on every school bus? Armed escorts in separate vehicle? What about at the football and basketball games? What about the cheerleading competitions?
This may be an idea with merit. But LaPierre has not thought this out very well, he has only scratched the surface.
And do Republicans want to spend money as LaPierre called for Congress to do?
indigo
December 21st, 2012
6:28 pm
jconservative – “and do Republicans want to spend money”
If it means raising taxes, especially on the rich, the answer is absolutely NO.
As they see it, parents can always have more kids, but the rich MUST be protected.
Pride and Joy
December 21st, 2012
6:30 pm
Big T — you said an armed guard is a deterrent. You’re right — an armed guard is a deterrent for sane robbers and other sane people but mass murderers are not sane and they don’t care if they are killed. They often commit suicide later so NO, an armed guard is NOT a deterrent. They wear a bullet proof vest only to ensure they murder people BEFORE they kill themselves.
AND HERE’s something no one sees:
A killer may take a hostage to PREVENT anyone from shooting back at them — THEN WHATCHA GONNA DO ? What would an armed guard do then?
Well, they wouldn’t shoot back.
Pride and Joy
December 21st, 2012
6:55 pm
AMX makes the BEST POINT of any poster yet.
The President of the USA has the best trained, best paid, thorough, ever-present ARMED security force and look what happened….
a sniper took a shot at Reagan and nearly killed Reagan.
Do we really think one or two armed guards at a school with 600 kids will prevent a tragedy?
You do?
You’re in denial.
Pride and Joy
December 21st, 2012
6:59 pm
TO AMX’s perfect point.
Reagan AND THREE MORE were shot and wounded.
Reagan had the best trained armed security in the USA and yet COULD NOT prevent the gunman, a lone gunman, from shooting FOUR people.
And some of you really think a cop or two at each school can protect 600 kids?
You still believe that?
What possible explanation could you have?
GCAE President
December 21st, 2012
7:03 pm
I am a gun owner, licensed, permit holding, and believer in our rights to own guns. It is our responsibility to use and store our weapons to keep everyone safe. As a teacher of 30+ years, I cannot imagine having to have this responsibility, even with training, in my classroom. I do not want the responsibility of “protecting” my class with a weapon, or the responsibility of storing it on my person or in my classroom with the possibility of it being taken/stolen by a student or someone else. I do propose that we continue to encourage all school districts to have their own security/police department, have professional security at all schools full time and provide procedures for all staff to follow in any case of violence and how to deal with situations. Local police should be versed on how to assist school police and there should be procedures in place for all to work together to ensure the safety of the children and staff.
We do not need more gun control, we need more crime control. Make sure the criminals do not and cannot get their hands on weapons. Chip all weapons, with information of the type it is, scan the whereabouts and if they come 100 yards of a school, investigate. The weapon does not walk by itself, does not get used by itself. If a person is not suppose to have a weapon, make sure they can’t get one. If a teen wants to make a statement, control the area that is off limits. We have the brain power and technology. Let’s use it!!!
AND FOR HEAVEN SAKES, STOP BLAMING ASPERGERS AND AUTISM FOR ANY OF THIS! There is no connection. These conditions are seen by a psychiatrist because they are brain chemical balance control that these doctors deal with. Let’s stop the blame game on these conditions. There are other circumstances that caused this young man to act in this way. Let’s find out all the information before we blame anything.
amx
December 21st, 2012
7:25 pm
Before LaPierre’s NRA press conference, they swept the crowd for guns. That’s right. They wanted to make sure their crowd was unarmed. If they really believed that having guns would protect them, then why wouldn’t they just protect themselves with their guns? It’s OK for our children to get shot down for the profits of the gun and ammo manufacturers, but let’s make sure those NRA leaders are protected.
A Teacher in Marietta
December 21st, 2012
7:31 pm
So many questions…not enough answers.
Security person: Who will pay for this? I ponder this on a day teachers are on furlough and at a school where we have no funds left for basics like copy paper.
Fortifying entrances: Would students never go outside for PE, recess or to the outdoor classroom? What about dismissal where 1,500 students leave to buses, cars and bicycles?
I don’t want to be armed nor do I want my kid’s teachers armed either. Cell phones go missing from teachers desks/purses on a regular basis. Think about the consequences should it be a weapon.
The only crime in my neighborhood was a break in to steal their guns. People who own guns are more likely to have them used against them rather than be protected by them. America must end this love affair with guns. We need stricter gun control laws now.
Tap Out
December 21st, 2012
7:40 pm
When it comes to protecting our children, guards in schools will only be a small band-aid. Are we also gonna mandate guards for all day care centers, chuck e cheese, and monkey joes? How about restaurants? We’ve had mass shootings in restaurants too. Should struggling small business owners spring for armed security? We need a national solution which is sensible and economically feasible..
Kris
December 21st, 2012
7:42 pm
amx…Wonder if the NRA leaders wore bullet proof vest’s?
incredulous
December 21st, 2012
7:50 pm
Do we truly want to militarize our schools? I have three children in school, am well trained with weapons, and the last thing I want is a compounded school. That Lapierre could be so thoroughly hypocritical amazes me. The debate still centers on effective mental health treatment and surveillance. If the NRA can pull this off, they’ll succeed in becoming a defacto arms dealer in our schools.
dcb
December 21st, 2012
7:51 pm
Armed guards at every school simply won’t work. Worse, they send the wrong message. There are too many doors and too many other access points at any large building to prevent a mentally unstable person from doing mayhem before one, or even a number of armed good guys could respond. If Lanza could blast his way through a locked glass secured door, he could likewise have blown away any armed guard before the guard would have had time to react. As to the message, what are we saying to our kids if the lesson that police are there to help us is the one we are trying to teach but must includes sidearms as part of the picture? I have the utmost respect for the NRA – but they have really missed the boat on this one. No response from them would have been better than provide armed security at every one of our schools in the country because the only way to stop a bad guy with guns is to have a good guy with guns.
gun sense
December 21st, 2012
7:57 pm
you want enlightenment become a buddist:
“And in order for most of us to sleep peacefully at night we have to be ignorant. Those of us who say peace and peace alone can withhold the violence of the world at bay are ignorant. Those of us who say flowers stop guns are ignorant. Those of us who say war is dead are ignorant.
But there are a few who choose to see the harsh truth, who choose to dirty their hands, and their hands alone, in silence, in order for our hands to not even be aware of what filth is. These beings choose to be as rough as the devils they face so that we can retain our softness.
We sleep peaceably in our beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on our behalf.”
incredulous
December 21st, 2012
7:57 pm
So, let me get this straight; in order to protect us from guns, we need more guns. Is that right? Historically, this hasn’t worked out too well.
Dondee
December 21st, 2012
8:44 pm
Sounds like a god idea to me…
Woody
December 21st, 2012
9:08 pm
it would be a pretty boring job, kind of hard to keep the kind of edge required to get ahead of a young killer; and I do not think it would attract the kind of Bruce Willis hero that this scheme imagines. The cost per shooting averted would be astronomical, given the needle-in-a-haystack frequency of occurrence of this kind of shooting. Instead,I would rather see some effort made to change the popular culture. I would like to see some gun owners, perhaps some congressmen, publicly give up their guns in response to the tragedy. Its up to the young folks, mostly – they can make this change.
Ole Guy
December 21st, 2012
9:53 pm
Let us stop for just a moment and consider this thing from another angle. Any-and-all steps considered, from arming teachers and principals to “enhanced” SROs…whether we agree or not…all means one thing: relegating the principle of civil rights, to some degree. If one “perceives” a potential threat and one administers deadly force in reaction to this perception, just how are we, a (so-called) civilized society, to react. In the military, as in law enforcement, there are Rules Of Engagement/ROE, which rigidly govern the application of deadly force. Are we going to apply these rules to the educational arena; eventually any-and-all occupations which encompass public contact in any form. Pretty soon, we’ll be headed right back to the old western cowboy flicks where suspected cheating at the card game was justification for a duel at the bar. LISTEN UP, PEOPLE…DO YOU REALLY WANT THAT? As a young adult, I, along with a coupla hundred thousand of my generation, lived and “worked” within that very environment for much of our young lives. This is NO WAY for school kids to grow up; anyone thinking otherwise would do well to rethink the entire issue; perhaps even take a weapon, stand a post and conduct combat operations.
This entire situation…the sad events at Newtown…point out the screaming need to take the issue of mental incapacitation seriously.
During my short sojourn in the classroom, I saw some kids who, under existing law, had to be mainstreamed; placed in the same classroom as “normal” kids. Rather than commit resources to the problem, the powers that be preferred to confront otherwise “normal” kids with problems they chose to virtually ignore.
Lets look at another approach to the SRO “solution”. Just how effective have these folks been? Are SROs allowed to approach the sources of problems in the same manner they would approach these people on the street? I RATHER THINK NOT.
People, you DO NOT want your schools to become armed camps…not if you want your kids to gain a normal education. What happened at Newton is nothing short of atrocious; under the circumstances, nothing could have prevented that tragedy. All you can do, in response to this, is train/teach your kids the importance of situational awareness. These kids will then grow up to be responsible adults who, while conducting the day-to-day business of living, will be able to take the necessary actions to prevent another Newtown…WITHOUT FEAR OF SOMEBODY SECOND GUESSING THEIR DECISIONS.
10:10 am
December 21st, 2012
9:59 pm
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Violence abounds
December 21st, 2012
10:04 pm
The fact that we can’t keep drugs or weapons out of adult prisons should clearly show why we will never be able to keep them out of the children’s prisons. The best solution would be to close these prisons, open up a truly free market in education, strongly encourage homeschooling and the creation of new private options, and solve two problems at once. Thanks to the “gun free schools” act we now have kids who aren’t learning anything acting as sitting ducks for crazed shooters. Time to realize that government run anything is a problem and a magnet for violence and immorality. Time to embrace the free market and individual liberty (including the right to defend oneself).
a no brainer requires a brain
December 21st, 2012
10:30 pm
An armed officer posted at the door of every school in the US is no match for a lunatic armed with an assault weapon and hundreds of rounds of ammo. Will only make the school less safe because it will create a false sense of security and cause staff and students to let their guards down. Changing how we deal with mentally ill adults; a ban on assault weapons; requiring background checks on all weapon purchases and transfer of ownership documentation for second hand purchases is a good start.
The Deal
December 21st, 2012
10:32 pm
Columbine had an SRO. Anyone” Bueller? Bueller?
5.5 billion is going to come from where?
Fed Up
December 21st, 2012
10:43 pm
Lots of banks have armed guards but people still rob them. How many heists have those bastions of security actually thwarted? More guns is an obscene solution.
The Kid
December 21st, 2012
11:14 pm
There’s an old, old saying;’ You reap what you sow’, and I’m old enough to have realized this to be true.The N.R.A. would have us beleive that sowing more guns will avert the continued slaughter of our children. As a people we must make a collective decision as to where we want America to go. These people actually would rather make money than to slow the violence in this country. Blood on your hands N.R.A. The fear these people use to perpetuate the buying of these wapons is shameful. Yes; America is in a state of fear. Fear of each other. Fear of our differences. Fear of change. These factors allow for the exploitation of people who are ignorant to the politics of divide and conquer. This has been done since the inception of this country. America is seen as anything but a Christian nation. Evil rules because good people stand back and do nothing or feel that they don’t have the power to do anything. Collectively tho’ we can move mountains. We can change this country for the better.