Josh Barro, Columnist

NRA: Let's Airportize Our Schools

December 21, 2012 at 6:06 PM UTC

Josh Barro is the lead writer for the Ticker, Bloomberg View's blog on economics, finance and politics. His primary areas of interest include tax and fiscal policy, state and local government, and planning and land use. Previously, Barro was a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research and a commercial real estate banker at Wells Fargo. He holds a bachelor's degree in psychology from Harvard and lives in Queens, New York.

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The unhingedness of this morning's National Rifle Association newsconference, in which Chief Executive Officer Wayne LaPierre blamed the SandyHook massacre on essentially everything except guns, has been adequately covered all over the web. I don't need to rehash it. (Here's the transcript in all itsglory.)

Instead, I want to focus on one bad idea from LaPierre's rambling speech,because it's a fairly popular one: more police in schools.