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Are More Guns the Answer? - Speaking at a press conference on Friday, National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre placed the blame on mass shootings like last week’s tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut, on insufficient gun control laws and violence in the media and video games. Keep reading for a look at LaPierre’s most contentious comments (based on the NRA's transcripts of his remarks).  – Britt Middleton (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

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Using the Right Resources - “We care about the president, so we protect him with armed Secret Service agents. Members of Congress work in offices surrounded by armed Capitol police officers. Yet when it comes to the most beloved, innocent and vulnerable members of the American family — our children — we as a society leave them utterly defenseless, and the monsters and predators of this world know it and exploit it.”(Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty)

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Who Is the Next Adam Lanza? - “The truth is that our society is populated by an unknown number of genuine monsters — people so deranged, so evil, so possessed by voices and driven by demons that no sane person can possibly ever comprehend them. They walk among us every day. And does anybody really believe that the next Adam Lanza isn't planning his attack on a school he's already identified at this very moment?” [empahsis LaPierre](Photo: Kateleen Foy/Getty Images)

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Copycat Crimes - “How many more copycats are waiting in the wings for their moment of fame — from a national media machine that rewards them with the wall-to-wall attention and sense of identity that they crave — while provoking others to try to make their mark?”(Photo: AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

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An Uncertain Future - "A dozen more killers? A hundred? More? How can we possibly even guess how many, given our nation's refusal to create an active national database of the mentally ill?"(Photo: Michael Nagle/Getty Images)

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Are Violent Video Games to Blame? - "And here's another dirty little truth that the media try their best to conceal: There exists in this country a callous, corrupt and corrupting shadow industry that sells, and sows, violence against its own people. Through vicious, violent video games with names like Bulletstorm, Grand Theft Auto, Mortal Kombat and Splatterhouse."(Photo: AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

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The Impact of Violent Movies - "Then there’s the blood-soaked slasher films like American Psycho and Natural Born Killers [above] that are aired like propaganda loops on Splatterdays and every day, and a thousand music videos that portray life as a joke and murder as a way of life. And then they have the nerve to call it "entertainment." But is that what it really is? Isn't fantasizing about killing people as a way to get your kicks really the filthiest form of pornography?" (Photo: Warner Bros.)

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No Fault of Their Own - “As brave, heroic and self-sacrificing as those teachers were in those classrooms, and as prompt, professional and well-trained as those police were when they responded, they were unable — through no fault of their own — to stop it.” (Photo: AP Photo/Jessica Hill)

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The Race to the Bottom - "In a race to the bottom, media conglomerates compete with one another to shock, violate and offend every standard of civilized society by bringing an ever-more-toxic mix of reckless behavior and criminal cruelty into our homes — every minute of every day of every month of every year."(Photo: AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

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Innocence Lost - "A child growing up in America witnesses 16,000 murders and 200,000 acts of violence by the time he or she reaches the ripe old age of 18. And throughout it all, too many in our national media … their corporate owners … and their stockholders … act as silent enablers, if not complicit co-conspirators.”(Photo: John Moore/Getty Images)

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One News Cycle Away - “Rather than face their own moral failings, the media demonize lawful gun owners, amplify their cries for more laws and fill the national debate with misinformation and dishonest thinking that only delay meaningful action and all but guarantee that the next atrocity is only a news cycle away.” (Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images)

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Stopping "the Bad Guys" - "The only way to stop a monster from killing our kids is to be personally involved and invested in a plan of absolute protection. The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.” (Photo: Reuters/Adrees Latif)

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Armed Security at Schools - “Five years ago, after the Virginia Tech tragedy, when I said we should put armed security in every school, the media called me crazy. But what if, when Adam Lanza started shooting his way into Sandy Hook Elementary School last Friday, he had been confronted by qualified, armed security?” (Photo: AP Photo/Newtown Bee, Shannon Hicks)

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The Ultimate Sacrifice - "Is the press and political class here in Washington so consumed by fear and hatred of the NRA and America’s gun owners that you're willing to accept a world where real resistance to evil monsters is a lone, unarmed school principal [Dawn Hochsprung, above] left to surrender her life to shield the children in her care?”(Photo: AP Photo/Eliza Hallabeck/Newtown Bee)

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Protecting Loved Ones From Harm - "With all the foreign aid, with all the money in the federal budget, we can’t afford to put a police officer in every school? Even if they did that, politicians have no business — and no authority — denying us the right, the ability or the moral imperative to protect ourselves and our loved ones from harm." (Photo: Reuters/Kevin Lamarqu)