TCTI: Too Crazy Too Ignore
 Dave Ross
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The National Rifle Association executive vice president Wayne LaPierre, speaks during a news conference in response to the Connecticut school shooting on Friday, Dec. 21, 2012 in Washington. The nation's largest gun-rights lobby is calling for armed police officers to be posted in every American school to stop the next killer "waiting in the wings." (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Is he crazy, or just trapped?

BY Dave Ross  on December 24, 2012 @ 7:12 am (Updated: 8:49 am - 12/24/12 )

Over the weekend NRA chief Wayne La Pierre endorsed the idea of armed and trained officers in every school, paid for by the federal government. And people called him crazy.

But his suggestion is not crazy. It's inevitable. When you run an organization whose policy is to make it easy to sell powerful guns to almost anyone, regardless of training or character, what else can you suggest but to have cops everywhere?

Plus he says the government needs to start tracking the mentally ill. As he pointed out on Meet The Press, "We have no national database of these lunatics."

The NRA now wants a comprehensive mental health database, because a country that's flooded with these powerful weapons can't afford to tolerate even a single mentally ill person walking the streets. What's happening is that the NRA's policy of resisting gun control, is leading to PEOPLE control.

A few more shootings like this, and we'll have to start keeping files on people who brood a lot, or post scary things on the Internet, or honk too much in traffic.

The NRA will have to endorse it all. Because rejecting government control of guns leads inevitably to government control of potential gun users: Federally-subsidized cops everywhere, the government tracking medical records - the NRA slowly finds itself endorsing the very kind of government control that the Second Amendment was supposed to prevent.

Dave Ross, KIRO Radio Talk Show Host
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  • steel wrote...
    gun control is people control
    December 24, 2012 5:08 pm
    The most effective way to control the people is with gun control first. After that the rest is easy. Get rid of the Second Amendment first. Then get rid if the First Amendment. Disobedient liberals are second on the list.
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  • Klyyd wrote...
    Everyone said
    December 24, 2012 7:18 pm
    That they didn't want armed pilots, but now there are thousands of them protecting airline passengers every day , behind an armored door of the cockpit. It works. Armor classroom doors and arm teachers. No more nuts getting to defenseless children.
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  • ibedavey wrote...
    You Are Wrong, Dave
    December 24, 2012 11:40 pm
    We already have gun control. It's just like illegal immigration. If the laws were enforced that are on the books there wouldn't be a need to demand more laws. More laws does not equate to a safer society any more than more police equate to a safer society. There are always going to be nutballs that can't be defensed against. It's a reality that many, including yourself, can't see.
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  • AtheisticallyYours wrote...
    And yet they don't think THEY should be?
    December 25, 2012 9:14 am
    So if its "people control" the NRA is ultimately after, I hope that EACH AND EVERY ONE of the they millions of members will be the first to SUBMIT to such tracking! Of course they will! Its their goal, and they should lead by EXAMPLE (and when the whack jobs are found amongst them, the NRA will be the FIRST to advocate separating the gun FROM the whack job!).
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  • HLC wrote...
    It seems that the nutcase that killed the firefighters was a convicted felon.
    December 26, 2012 7:30 am
    Well that can' be. isn't it against the law for a felon to have a gun? Maybe a few more laws piled on top of the thousands that are on the books already would help. Not a chance. So banning sports rifles would change that? You gunphobes are to funny. How about the shooter in the Bar Monday? How could he have a gun? Who could have saw that coming? Should have been knocked in the head when he killed the tuba man.
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  • hpitantso wrote...
    Coward for Money
    January 3, 2013 6:12 am
    Second Amendment pimp
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