NRA school to work program

The NRA has come out of hibernation and is now proposing an armed guard be hired and stationed at every school in the country. There are certainly economic advantages to this. Think how many more guns the weapons makers could sell! Gun companies would become our nation's true "job creators," something we so desperately need.

But sadly, the NRA misses the point here. One armed guard to protect all those doors, windows and buses? Without an armed guard for every classroom, our kids just aren't going to be any safer. And what if that guard is taken out by the first blast of an assault weapon? Again, our kids will be helpless.

Helpless unless the children themselves are armed and can shoot back. That's what will ultimately end these one sided massacres at schools. We must arm, train and provide clips of live ammunition to every girl and boy from first grade on. Let someone threaten them now! Why there would be a mass shootout between the bad guys and all the good kids, and we know who would win that one.

By the time our children have survived the occasional gunfight in the playground and graduated from high school, they would be more than ready for the only job their country will have to offer them, being a proud member of the Armed Forces. They will be well equipped to blast bad guys around the world as we expand our glorious American Empire.

The ultimate NRA school to work program.

Fred Nagel (letter to the editor 2012)