Wayne LaPierre Quotes

I know parents across America remain sick with worry about the safety of their children. I feel that anguish.

If it's crazy to call for putting police and armed security in our school to protect our children, then call me crazy.

There's no reason why children in inner cities or rural areas do not receive the same quality education or opportunities as those in suburbs or wealthy neighborhoods. If we truly believe in giving all citizens a chance to pursue happiness and pursue their goals, then we cannot continue to marginalize entire groups of people.

We need to make sure that the fast-growing States and the balance of States in this country have as much information as available because I cannot imagine the pain as a parent myself of having my child molested by someone in our schools.

At the end of the day, we have an economy that works for the rich by cheating the poor, and unequal schools are the result of that, not the cause.

After every massacre in a school, Americans grasp at quick cures. 'Let's install metal detectors and give guns to teachers' Let's crack down on troublemakers, weeding out kids who fit the profile of a gunman. Let's buy bulletproof whiteboards for the students to scurry behind, or train kids to throw erasers or cans of soup at an attacker.'

Our experience at Teach For America has been that the more people understand educational inequity, the more they want to do something about it.

I favor school integration. I do not favor mandatory busing. The only kids who were bused are the poor children. The rich parents either move or put the kid in private schools.

Evil walks among us, and God help us if we don't harden our schools and protect our kids.

Gun control is not the answer. The best and most effective path forward, I believe, is one that safeguards our schools from becoming 'soft targets.'

It is a sad reality that active shooter drills are a standard way of life for kids as young as pre-school.

If - heaven forbid - a shooter did come into my class, I wouldn't want to have to worry about getting caught in a crossfire.

Our kids fear going to school in the morning, and their parents worry whether they will come home safely at the end of the day.

As the father of six children, I want to know that when my wife or I drop our kids off at school they will be safe from predators, crime and violence.

There is something deeply hypocritical in a society that holds an inner-city child only eight years old "accountable" for her performance on a high-stakes standardized exam but does not hold the high officials of our government accountable for robbing her of what they gave their own kids six or seven years before.

Yet, instead of loving our children more, we install metal detectors in our schools.

If I had a little kid in kindergarten somewhere, would feel much more comfortable if I knew on that campus there was a police officer or somebody who was trained with a weapon. I would feel more comfortable.

We need to have every single school in America immediately deploy a protection program proven to work —and by that I mean armed security.

The reality in Washington D.C. is if you live in Tenleytown versus if you live in Anacostia, you get two wildly different educational experiences. It’s the biggest social injustice imaginable. What we are allowing to happen in this day and age, we are still allowing the color of a child’s skin and the Zip code they live in to dictate their educational outcome, and therefore their life outcome. We are robbing them every single day of their futures. And everybody in this country should be infuriated by that.

We've got to look to our educational programs and focus on doing what we can to stem violence in the schools.

For it not to be safe for kids in school, it's tragic.

I had a 100 percent voting record with the NRA, but I don't believe in bazookas in our schools.

The need is schools dedicated exclusively to the rural segment. If we have a child from a village and a city studying in the same class room, the former is bound to lag behind because children from the urban areas have a better start.

Any threat to the health and safety of a child in any school or classroom is unacceptable.

I don't think a good education should be confined to a privileged few.