NRA: Place armed security in each school

WASHINGTON -- The nation's largest gun lobby, which has stayed mostly quiet since a gunman killed 26 people at a Connecticut elementary school a week ago, called Friday for Congress to require armed security guards in every school, saying that doing so could prevent acts of mass violence from happening again.

In a defiant and unapologetic speech, Wayne LaPierre, the executive vice president of the National Rifle Association, said Friday that the organization would use its resources to build what he called a "national school shield emergency program." The NRA's program would be led by Asa Hutchinson, a former Republican congressman and U.S. attorney from Arkansas.