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Following the murder of 20 school children and 6 staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, by a 20-year-old man with significant mental health issues, Wayne Lapierre, CEO of the National Rifle Association (NRA), stated: “The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.” His solution was predictable: Arm school staff throughout the country.
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Gabor, T. (2016). Armed Self-Defense I: The Number of Defensive Gun Uses. In: Confronting Gun Violence in America. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33723-4_9
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