The National Rifle Association head Wayne LaPierre*called for armed guards at every school, and an "active mental illness database" to prevent shootings in today's NRA Sandy Hook press conference. His strongest focus was on promoting armed defense–"The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun," he said after explaining that*no one at Sandy Hook Elementary School could stop gunman Adam Lanza because they weren't armed.*But he also slipped in several other arguments, including mention of the fact that there's no "active national database of the mentally ill"...This isn't exactly what I meant when I said that we should take a closer look at mental health care in light of Sandy Hook. More »

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