you mentioned arming schools. on meet the press today nra ceo and executive vice president explained why he oppose azkaban on assault weapons and high capacity magazines. let s take a listen to that. you re telling me it s not a matter of common sense that if you don t have an ability to shoot off 30 rounds without reloading that just possibly you could reduce the loss of life. adam lanza may not have been able to shoot as many kids if he didn t have your ammunition. it s not possible? there are so many different ways he could have done it. i keep saying it and you won t accept it. it s not going to worked. it hasn t worked. dianne feinstein had her ban and columbine occurred. a moment ago you were talking about guns in school, and you said something that made me think that that s something you would agree w.where do you stand on that? i don t agree with it. i think the republicans talk about it now. they are going to use that as a way to get around the issue, and the issue i
feinstein quick to criticize and they had a news conference to respond to the nra and i read from the police report from 1999 and she was noting that at columbine there were two armed guards that could not stop the killers. let s listen to that, and then, mark, i want to get your response to that. there were two armed law enforcement officers who twice engaged the shooters at columbine. that didn t prevent 15 from being killed and 23 wounded. mark, you know, the nra, we all know here in this conversation. it s been so powerful for so many years, in another day and age, lawmakers and the public might have listened to what he said yesterday, but this is now. what is different here in terms of his call for arming schools? will even be listened to? richard, normally the pr 101 is a group that seems to be under siege and of course, the nra was attracting a lot of