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Filler: Do we really need guns in schools? Wayne LaPierre and the NRA think so

National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre

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So the problem isn’t real guns killing real people. The problem is video games and movies, fake guns killing fake people.

That and, of course, the media, who by publicizing slaughter give shooters a path to notoriety.

So says Wayne LaPierre, head of the National Rifle Association, who cited mainstream shooting videogames like “Call of Duty,” as well as ones few have ever heard of, like...

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