How The NRA's Proposal To Put Guns In Schools Became Credible

This week, the National Rifle Association is starting up its propaganda machine to argue in favor of using federal money to put armed guards in schools. They're calling it the "National School Shield Program" - nomenclature that invites us to imagine guns as defensive barriers, only pointing outward against threats. But guns can point in any direction. What's more, they can fire in any direction. That's what makes them guns and not, you know, shields. In the immediate aftermath of the NRA's disa...