How the NRA's "good guy with a gun" myth gave us the Uvalde nightmare
Nearly 10 years ago, days after the massacre of young kids at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut, National Rifle Association vice president Wayne LaPierre gave a defiant press conference where he vowed not to give an inch on gun control. To justify the NRA’s absolutism, LaPierre uttered a phrase that would become one of the defining phrases of the debate over guns.
“The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun,” he said.
Of course, the children lying dead in Connecticut could not have taken up arms in their own defense. Nor could the kids who died in Texas. Instead, LaPierre was arguing for putting more guards in schools — a policy that has been repeatedly shown not to deter or prevent mass shootings.
Yet immediately after the Uvalde shooting, gun rights advocates like Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Fox host Jeanine Pirro repeated LaPierre’s proposal — although there actually were armed police outside the elementary school who engaged the shooter before his massacre.
https://www.vox.com/2022/5/25/23140519/uvalde-school-shooting-nra-texas-good-guy-gun
Dirty Harry/Die Hard/Lethal Weapon is not real life, guys.
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