“The whole country… knows the problem was there weren’t enough good guys with guns,” NRA honcho Wayne LaPierre said in the aftermath of the Navy Yard shooting in Washington, D.C. It’s a a favorite trope of the gun advocate. Since the NRA receives plenty of backing from gun manufacturers, we usually assume that LaPierre means people ought to buy more guns.
via Does America Have Enough ‘Good Guys’ to Go with All of Its Guns? – Philip Bump – The Atlantic Wire.
