Not too impressed by their suggestion unless they follow it through all the way.

Certainly would be a job creator, with over 130,000 schools in the US. (public and private k-12)

Lets assume $80,000/yr per officer for salary, equipment, training and benefits.

That is only $10.4 Billion (Big B).

With an estimated 10.8 million guns sold last year, just to pay for that the tax would be about $1,000 per gun. Applications this year were about 16.8 million so far, so assuming that was the actual figure, the cost per gun is only $620.

Maybe adding onto the 10-11% excise tax on firearms and ammunition would reduce the overall cost on a per gun basis, but really this is just another unfunded mandate (Mandate of the NRA). It is just as irresponsible for them to suggest this, as it is for the US Congress, or our State elected critters to do the same thing. Create a program without adequately providing for a revenue stream to pay for it.

Sorry, I live for story problems.

On the subject of facts I found this interesting tidbit in the NRA article on MSN.com .

"The rate of firearms-related murders in 2011 was 3.2 per 100,000 people. In 1993 the rate of firearms-related murders was 6.6 per 100,000 people. The number of firearms-related murder victims dropped from more than 17,000 in 1993 to 9,903 in 2011.

Yet the shootings in Connecticut have raised the possibility that Congress might enact restrictive legislation that would incorporate the 1994 ban as well as measures to increase funding for treatment of mentally ill people."

So with gun related murders dropping by close to half, 42%, why is there a need for a gun ban? I don't see the other side of the argument there.

Hopefully someone will come up with meaningful legislation that will both protect the public at large, and not take away the rights of law abiding citizens. Sadly, until we can figure out a way to get criminals to obey the law, there will still be crime.