{"id":5755,"date":"2013-01-17T22:11:41","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T04:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=5755"},"modified":"2013-01-17T22:11:41","modified_gmt":"2013-01-18T04:11:41","slug":"nra-05-01-1999-we-believe-in-absolutely-gun-free-zero-tolerance-totally-safe-schools-that-means-no-guns-in-americas-schools-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/furg\/nra-05-01-1999-we-believe-in-absolutely-gun-free-zero-tolerance-totally-safe-schools-that-means-no-guns-in-americas-schools-period\/","title":{"rendered":"NRA 05-01-1999: &ldquo;we believe in absolutely gun-free, zero-tolerance, totally safe schools. That means no guns in America&#8217;s schools, period&rdquo;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fourteen years ago, the NRA opposed guns in schools. And promised an immediate impact on violence. Still waiting. Hat tip to Ed Bott for the link.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20000312035941\/http:\/\/nrahq.com\/transcripts\/denver_wlp.shtml\">NRA Annual Meeting &#8211; Wayne LaPierre Address to Members<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I wouldn&#8217;t stand before you today if I didn&#8217;t believe, and I couldn&#8217;t prove, that <font style=\"background-color: #ffc000\">our common-sense policies can have a more immediate impact on violence, and make more citizens safer, than anything that anyone else is proposing<\/font>. <\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;d like to speak in response to the President&#8217;s recent press conferences and news appearances. And please, listen not just for what we&#8217;ve done, but for what more we can all do. <\/p>\n<p>First, <font style=\"background-color: #ffff00\">we believe in absolutely gun-free, zero-tolerance, totally safe schools. That means no guns in America&#8217;s schools, period <\/font>&#8230; with the <strong>rare exception<\/strong> of law enforcement officers or trained security personnel. <\/p>\n<p>We believe America&#8217;s schools should be as safe as America&#8217;s airports. You can&#8217;t talk about, much less take, bombs and guns onto airplanes. Such behavior in our schools should be prosecuted just as certainly as such behavior in our airports is prosecuted.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20000312035941\/http:\/\/nrahq.com\/transcripts\/denver_wlp.shtml\">NRA Annual Meeting &#8211; Wayne LaPierre Address to Members<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fourteen years ago, the NRA opposed guns in schools. And promised an immediate impact on violence. Still waiting. Hat tip to Ed Bott for the link. NRA Annual Meeting &#8211; Wayne LaPierre Address to Members I wouldn&#8217;t stand before you today if I didn&#8217;t believe, and I couldn&#8217;t prove, that our common-sense policies can have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/furg\/nra-05-01-1999-we-believe-in-absolutely-gun-free-zero-tolerance-totally-safe-schools-that-means-no-guns-in-americas-schools-period\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NRA 05-01-1999: &ldquo;we believe in absolutely gun-free, zero-tolerance, totally safe schools. That means no guns in America&#8217;s schools, period&rdquo;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-furg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}