I'd like to think that Wayne LaPierre damaged the NRA this morning

[cali]

but I doubt it. I can't remember ever being more horrified, but I know enough not to project my feelings onto others.

I fully expect our schools to turn into armed camps. People are easy to manipulate when they're scared and they want immediate "solutions".

I think about the schools my son attended when he was little; tiny rural schools with relaxed happy atmospheres and I try to imagine armed guards and locked doors and I just want to cry.

[1-Old-Man]

1. I think he did do the NRA great damage. They simply were unreasonable.

And they have to have a considerable membership who will think twice before renewing after this display of nonsense.

[Big Blue Marble]

2. Shoot out at the OK classroom!

That will put the moms and the women in our country at ease.

I think this shows how out of touch these gun nuts are.

More guns are part of the problem not part of solution.

[Glitterati]

3. Our schools are

All exterior doors are locked except the front door. At the door is the office, and in the high school, a receptionist.

We have UNARMED School Resource Officers who are members of the Sheriff's Dept. DARE group. Their sole task is drug interdiction.

I live in a large, rural county which is a bedroom community of Atlanta.

Lots and lots of armed crazy right wing nuts around here. Yes, Newtown could happen here. Easily.

But, I do NOT believe the solution is armed guards at our schools.