NRA position on school safety

At 10:00AM today the National Rifle Association (NRA) conducted a press conference and started off with an excellent statement by Wayne LaPierre, Executive Director. This was followed by a statement by former Congressman Asa Hutchinson (Arkansas), who has been appointed to lead the National School Shield safety program.

I encourage you to listen to their statements. They can be heard on www.nra.org and they may also be on the NRA pages on Facebook: "NRA" and "NRA News".

Listen to them. Then contact your school district's superintendent and principals and tell them you want to be involved in formulating the safety program for your schools.

Do not let them say, "We know what's best for your kids." Get involved.

Together we can end violence in our schools.

Unfortunately, in Illinois if we want to help protect our kids at school, we're going to have to find the 1,000-foot line and remain outside it, since our esteemed legislators believe people with guns cannot enter the Gun-Free Zone of that radius.

Tell that to the next nutcase who didn't buy a measuring tape on the way to do harm in an Illinois school.