(IBD) Glock, Paper, Scissors: Armed Guard Stops Atlanta School Shooter, DHS Buys 7,000 AR-15s

Guns: While DHS seeks 7,000 semiautomatic guns with 30-round clips for  self-defense, it makes a video saying you should use scissors to overpower armed  predators. Luckily, a school guard in Atlanta thought differently.

Vice President Joe Biden criticized, on Jan. 23 during a Google+ Hangout, the  suggestion by NRA chief Wayne LaPierre to put armed guards in every school in  the nation.

"We are not calling for armed guards in schools . .. we think that would be a  terrible mistake," the vice president  said during the PBS "Fireside  Hangout."

On Thursday afternoon, a student opened fire at  Price Middle School in  Atlanta, wounding a 14-year-old in the neck before an armed officer working at  the school was able to get the gun away possibly averting yet another mass  shooting. Police say the shooter had a grudge against the victim, but the armed  guard's intervention made sure the incident went no further.

Some would argue an unarmed guard or teacher could have done the same, or  they might have been the shooter's next victim. The incident should raise in the  minds of gun-control advocates how things might have been different if an armed  guard had been patrolling Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.

Maybe Wayne LaPierre wasn't crazy after all. Certainly his idea is more  practical and less goofy than the suggestion in a video produced by the  Department of Homeland Security that was posted on the agency's website just a  month after the massacre at Sandy Hook.

The video, titled "Options for Consideration," advises that people who get  caught in an "active shooter" situation should run away, hide under a desk or  take cover out of the line of fire. But the video also touts an option for  self-defense — the right to bear scissors.

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