A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words - "NRA Killing Our Kids"

     There's an old saying that "a picture is worth a thousand words."  That adage refers to the notion that an idea can be conveyed with just a single photographic image.

     Hopefully, when we look at a picture, such as a photo with family or friends, it will get us to smile as we recollect about a fond memory.  A picture can be very valuable to each of us in a beautiful and heartwarming way.  But of course - not always.

     At a press conference reflecting on the Friday, December 14th, 2012 tragically sad massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, the National Rifle Association's executive vice president Wayne LaPierre insisted that increased gun laws would not have prevented the horrific and indescribable violence that caused the murders of 20 first grade students and 6 adult educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School.  Instead, as he delivered his remarks on Friday, December 21st at the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C., one week after the rampage, LaPierre called on Congress to put armed police officers in every school in the United States of America.  LaPierre emphatically expressed that "The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun."

     LaPierre's ridiculous remarks were interrupted twice by pro-gun control protestors while LaPierre was adamant with his opinion that stricter gun laws would not have blocked "monsters" like Adam Lanza from committing a mass shooting spree that killed 26 innocent people.  LaPierre wondered why schools, unlike banks, didn't have the protection of armed guards.

     Code Pink, as it's described on their Web site, is "a women-initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement working to end U.S. funded wars and occupations, to challenge militarism globally, and to redirect our resources into health care, education, green jobs and other life-affirming activities."

     At the NRA news conference, one of the demonstrators from Code Pink held up a banner. As I communicated at the outset of this commentary, a picture is worth a thousand words - or in this case - six words.  There's nothing more I need to say. 

     And that's The Controversy for today.

     I'm Gary B. Duglin.

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