NRA: Put "Armed Security" Around Schools

"The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun," the NRA's Wayne LaPierre said.

In an amazing Friday morning press conference, the National Rifle Association broke its weeklong silence following the horrific shooting of 26 people at a school in Newtown, Conn. and called for a surge of gun-carrying "good guys" around American schools. NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre called for a new kind of American domestic security revolving around armed civilians, arguing that "the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun." "We care about our president, so we protect him with armed Secret Service agents," LaPierre said. "Members of Congress work in offices surrounded by Capitol Police officers. Yet, when it comes to our most beloved, innocent, and vulnerable members of the American family, our …

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5 Things You Need To Know Today

5 Things for Dec. 17: Pats Fan Falls from Stands at Gillette Sunday, Foxborough School Committee Meets Monday and More

Here's five things you need to know in Foxborough for today, Dec. 17.

Editor's note: Five Things You Need To Know Today is a Patch column that provides readers with essential, daily information at a glance. If you know of something happening in town that did not make our list, please add it in the comment section! Today’s weather in Foxborough, according to the National Weather Service based in Taunton, calls for showers likely, mainly before 1 p.m. Patchy fog. Otherwise, cloudy, with a high near 47. Northeast wind 8 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70 percent. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible. Monday night: Rain. Low around 43. North wind 8 to 10 mph becoming east after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 90 percent. New precipitation amounts between a half and…

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