Brady group: Arming teachers ‘insane’

Odd Onion ^ | 2012-12-18 | KEVIN ROBILLARD

[Enosh]

The head of the country’s most prominent gun control advocacy group on Tuesday called a Texas GOP congressman’s idea to arm teachers “insane.”

“There are 40 people behind me who would love to respond to that,” said Dan Gross, the president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, when asked at a Capitol Hill press conference about Rep. Louie Gohmert’s suggestion to arm teachers and principals to prevent future school shootings. “But in their spirit, I will do on behalf of them: That’s insane.”

Gross, whose brother was wounded during a mass shooting at the Empire State Building in 1997, was standing in front of 40 family members of gun violence victims, including family members of victims of deadly mass shootings in Tucson, Ariz., at Columbine High School, in Aurora, Colo., at Virginia Tech and the South Capitol Street shooting in Washington, D.C. Family members nodded their heads as Gross spoke.

“Think about what that’s saying,” Gross said. “It’s saying the only answer to violence is more violence. The only answer to guns is more guns.”

Gross said additional weapons at most of the “chaotic” mass shootings of recent years, including his brother’s shooting, and at the mass shooting in Aurora earlier this year, would have only resulted in “more carnage.”

“I would hope the representative is held responsible for irresponsible statements like that,” Gross added.

Among the 40 family members was Andrei Nikitchyuk, whose 8-year-old son, Bear, was a student at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., where 26 people were shot and killed Friday. Nikitchyuk’s son survived the shooting after a teacher pulled him out of the hallway and barricaded the door to her classroom.

“I would offer the NRA: Return this country their kids,” Nikitchyuk told reporters after the press conference. “If they can do it, I would like that very, very much.”

Nikitchyuk, who emigrated to the United States 22 years ago, said he tried to ignore past mass shootings, and said he believed gun owners and politicians would do anything they could to protect children. Now, Nikitchyuk said, the country needs to speak up and demand more gun control.

[sergeantdave]

Screw these Nazi Brady a-holes. Time to strip these anti-America haters of citizenship and ship them one-way to the gun-free paradise of North Korea.

[CodeToad]

This is the same Brady group that thought concealed weapons means we would all be dying in traffic altercations and people would be having shootouts in public.

This is the same Brady group that said more guns means more deaths even though the murder rate has declined while gun ownership has skyrocketed.

Brady: Another word for liberal.

[taildragger]

I would trust my wife and teacher with a gun.

Naaghhh.... At a school where their protective "Momma-Grizzly" instincts would kick in? And the fact that most Women Shoot better than Men and can turn a Rooster into a Capon? You must be joking right? Man get with da Sarah Brady program here... :-)..

[Dartman]

“The dirty little secret is, the Brady Bunch enjoys these mass shooting incidents. “

I don’t know if I’d go THAT far, but they certainly love to capitalize on the event. Never let a crisis go to waste, and all that. Pretty sick when you’re driven by other people’s misfortunes.

[MtnMan101]

Now that you mention it....it does look like a Carbine.