Meanwhile, and apropos of LaPierre’s little rant, the Onion has one-upped reality once more.

Mayan Word For ‘Apocalypse’ Actually Translates More Accurately As ‘Time Of Pale Obese Gun Monsters’

Newly revealed Mayan tablets discredit apocalypse theories but seem to predict a mindless society based on guns, football, and gluttony.

We could have an ESA like the TSA and have expensive scanners at each school and another billion dollar boondoggle that costs the middle class.

I swear he’s approaching this as a great money grab for the NRA with his “national schools shield safety program” (transcript)

I do agree it was an insane speech with the brilliant logic of getting more and bigger guns to fend off those who have more and bigger guns because, heaven forbid, we actually reduce the number of those bigger guns out there menacing us, where’s the money in that?

Wayne ‘V is for Venal’ LaPierre

lol!

So, did you notice no questions at the press conference. What a coward.

Also, the hotel that they held the press conference in? Did it allow people with concealed carry weapons in? I’ll bet they didn’t.

Also let’s look at what he is calling it and notice how the media will reiterate his phrase, not what it is. By calling armed guards a “safety shield” they are going to get everyone to repeat “safety shield” instead of Armed Guards.

Even while disagreeing with the phrase we will keep using it. The media will keep using it and it will lodge in the heads of the people who want it as well as those who don’t

I will suggest to people that they not use his terminology while talking about this.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

F’ing socialists at the NRA. They’re gonna raise my taxes to hire security guards at elementary schools.

Seriously, though…how much would it cost to ban most guns from most people? Sure, a few companies would got out of business and some people would lose jobs, but think of net gains in public health budgets and police budgets once gun violence is reduced.

Perhaps we should say “armed nutjobs” instead of “safety shield.” That would be a more accurate description of LaPuke’s hypothetical gunbunny volunteers.

In re to your “So, did you notice no questions at the press conference”

And I’d like to welcome you here this morning for the purposes of beginning our discussion
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And at the end of this conference we will not be taking questions

I can see it now. We are on the road to an armed camp, something like Afghanistan or Pakistan or even Syria. But I’m pretty sure the NRA and our gun nuts will have it all figured out. What you will need are even better guns, like fully automatic. And why not grenades for when the mob come after you. Just self defense you know.

Let’s call it the Militarized Schools proposal.

Volunteers! Volunteers!

The second point I want to make is that this will be a program that does not depend on massive funding from local authorities or the federal government. Instead, it will make use of local volunteers serving in their own communities.

What could possibly go wrong

In other words, it wasn’t a “press conference”–it was a “political speech.” LaPuke is a coward, but he knows how to sucker a crowd.

who wants to live in their fantasy world armed camp?
LaPierre and his ilk are the jack booted thugs.

And what will be the standards by which these volunteers are selected? What will be the standards for their training? And who will supervise the implementation of those standards, and who will pay for all of the above, if not government?

It’s an idiotic attempt to plant armed ideologues in the American public school system, and in a sane country LaPuke would be laughed out of town for suggesting it. But this is America.

Oh, that’s what the NRA says now. But you know how creepingly insideous socialism is. Today they are citizen volunteers, but tomorrow they’ll demand a salary courtesty of the government./s

of course the first part sounds like a prime cash cow for the NRA and their cronies

First of all, it would be based on a model security plan, a comprehensive strategy for school security based upon the latest, most up-to-date technical information from the foremost experts in their fields. This model security plan will serve as a template, a set of best practices, principles, and guidelines that every school in America can tweak as needed and tailor to their own set of circumstances. (transcript)

Isn’t that a paternalistic interpretation of a conversation, though? Children sit and listen while the strong father type, always right, lectures. It totally fits into the philosophy of the crazed right.

And let’s not forget LaPuke’s proposal for a national scarlet letter mental health registry. Because scapegoating a significant percentage of the population who are far more likely to be victims of violence than its perpetrators has, historically, always worked well.

Not I. But you can bet millions will buy into it .

You know that they are backed by the gun lobby, which dictated a plan that lets them sell more guns for “protection.” Imagine if they were backed by the body armor lobby.

“To protect our children (and not limit people’s 2nd Amendment rights to have guns) we recommend the purchase of body Armor and ballistic helmets for all school age children and their teachers. “

Good point. I will remember that one.

The National Rifle Association is the natural obvious choice to sponsor this program. Their gun safety, marksmanship, and hunter education programs have set the standard for well over a century. Over the past 25 years, their Eddy Eagle (ph) gun safe program has taught over 26 million kids that real guns aren’t toys, and today child gun accidents are at the lowest levels ever recorded.

And yet school massacres are at their worst

(I wonder if Adam Lanza was a little Eddy Eagle?)

I can already envision the new school uniforms. Who wouldn’t want to wear Star Wars storm trooper gear to school – everyday is Hallowe’en!

Tweak it? Then we will be accused of not following the approved plan. But wait, can we tweak it by buying ” controlled” machine guns for when a mob of the hoodlum-mentally deranged-gangster-criminal-terrorist element come for us? Cause you know they are out there planning their next attack.

Adios David and happy holiday, remember what Frosty said when he got two lumps of coal in his stocking……I can SEE!. :)

Yes, farewell, David. May you walk in beauty.

No doubt. And it fits in with the police industrial complex, too. A lot of undesirables–the usual suspect, in fact–would get government money from a proposal like this. Cynically, I don’t believe it is an accident to make a crayzee proposal that enriches the jerks who brought us Iraq and Afghanistan. If they could figure out a way to funnel money to Chevron through this, they’d do that too.

hell, librul Barbara Boxer is proposing National Guard at schools

Happy trails, David. Your writing is extraordinary and I hope you will write a diary from time to time. Enjoy the holidays and, for heavens sake, rest. We’ll miss you.

When you say “librul Barbara Boxer,” you really should link to something with a laugh track.

Boy, I missed this one yesterday

Sen. Boxer proposes deploying National Guard at schools

Oh I see cbl points this out

this isn’t the society I care to live in.

Good God. Is there no common sense in government?

Good bye David. I heard you on Sam Seder’s show and agree with him, we are in awe of your work and abilities. Good luck in your future endeavors.

Eh? This is all & only about MONEY. GoulPierre is just parroting what his BigGun/BigAmmo corp paymasters buy him off to spew. If you worship at the Temple of Mammon, this is what you get.

The 1% laughs with unbridled JOY whenever another gun masscre takes place in Team USA Fuck YEAH! because it means more MONEY for the 1%. The rubes become easy marks by selling them the horseshit that they’d better buy, Buy BUY MOAR GUNZ ‘n AMMO stat!

What’s dead 99%ers to the 1%? Just one less whining moocher to deal with. Who gives a shit what age they are? Fuck ‘em?

LaPierre’s “recommendation” is crap. The 1% knows it, but hey, WTF. And now I guess CA LIEbrul Boxer is suggesting Armed Guards, too. Why not? Get the moochers to pay to have more jack-boots on their necks. Yeah: that’s the ticket! Make the moochers PAY for their own demise. w00t!

Is that a trick question?

A: NO.

Good point, and this would be true for many, many other “libruls” too. Far too many.

Heh. Sometimes the cluelessness of our “representatives” takes me by surprise. Of course there is no common sense in government.

I’m surprised he didn’t suggest that armed thugs volunteers replace the teachers.

Medea and Code Pink totally Rawks…! ;-)

The speech itself was completely insane,

So…I’m thinking a Thorazine drip for Mr. LaPierre. We could rig up a little contraption that gives LaPierre the freedom to wander aimlessly around the padded room without the possibility that the flow of anti-psychotics through his system might be interrupted. Good for him, good for society.

no doubt!

There’s a joke in there somewhere about a thousand points of light at schools.

perish the thought that we’d elect grownups

oh I think that we elect “grown ups” alright, it’s just that they’re venal, amoral, skeevy, greedy, sociopathic creeps is all.

Like someone else said; throw a bunch of firecrackers into an NRA meeting and let natural selection take over.
TBogg twitter

Oh snap…! ;-)

Zing!

11 of the 13 mass shootings that took place in the world during the last year were in the United States.

we’re the ones with the guns

Christie says Armed Guards won’t make us safer

Dead link…

We have guns, but so do a *lot* of other countries. Aren’t we the country most committed to corporate capitalism, though? I believe our problem is a toxic mix of guns and class exploitation that causes a breakdown in personal relationships resulting in alienation, and anger. That’s my two cents.

The NRA has jumped the shark … which is not to say they won’t still wield considerable power for a while. But I think this is an inflection point.

oops sorry

try this

Warmed over death Wayne is just trying to get more “product out the door”

they sure made a bid to consolidate that power today
as dday says “insane”

Given the positions Christie has been taking recently, I’d say he’s thinking very seriously about 2016. I, for one, am skeptical. He’s still got a serious bully thing going on, and I’ve got a problem with that.

and this isn’t just about the schools, who wants to go through metal detectors to shop at the mall?

As a friend recently wrote in a column, the solution for drunk driving is not more drunk driving, for teenage sex it’s not more teenage sex and for guns it’s not more guns.

The so-called leader of the NRA and some of their members are extremists and the industry is focused on one thing. Money.

Hunters and shooting sports enthusiasts should be embarrassed and supportive of responsible, reasonable limitations.

Hunters and shooting sports enthusiasts should be embarrassed and supportive of responsible, reasonable limitations.

This is the key, and now is the time to separate them from the batshit insane NRA of today.

A recent study from the University of California (by Steven P. Segal) showed that the most effective deterrents to gun violence were greater access to mental health services (that are being cut these days) and less restrictive laws to involuntarily commit the mentally ill. The latter may be a threat to LaPierre, which is perhaps why he didn’t mention it.

You mean those red laser lights on top of gun sights?????

less restrictive laws to involuntarily commit the mentally ill

MIght put large majority of NRA members away.

“Fighting the last war” thinking…
Not at all. He focused on one aspect hoping the United States of Amnesia wouldn’t think about the damn near daily cases of shootings of multiple people.