with us tonight. appreciate your time. always good to have you with us, jim, on this program. thank you. thank you, ed. what is what do you make of today s press conference, the reaction of the national rifle association? well, wayne lapierre works for the gun manufacturers. he really doesn t represent the majority of the members who are far more sane and responsible than the leadership is. you know, if you there is 125,000 public schools in the country. a security guard at 50,000 with benefits per year, that s $6.25 billion. do you think the nra would be willing to tax its guns and ammunition in order to pay that? i doubt it. but more importantly, ed, do we really want our children to grow up into a world where the first thing they see when they cross the school threshold is a military-style assault weapon carried by somebody with a weapon, a vest and dressed in a