<p>New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has lashed out at the US National Rifle Association's suggestion that armed guards should be stationed at schools to prevent shooting incidents, saying such a move will create a "more dangerous and violent" America where "no place is safe."<br /><br /></p>.<p>Bloomberg, who has long advocated the need to strengthen the nation's gun control laws, said the powerful gun lobby instead of "offering solutions to a problem they have helped create," are offering a "paranoid, dystopian vision of a more dangerous and violent America where everyone is armed and no place is safe."<br /><br />A week after the tragic shooting in an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, which killed 20 first-grade students and six adults, the National Rifle Association (NRA) in a press conference yesterday blamed violent video games, news media and poor law enforcement for the recent spurt in mass shootings across America.<br /><br />The lobby did not blame guns or the easy availability of dangerous firearms on the shootings and instead floated the idea of arming guards at schools to prevent shootings.<br />NRA Vice President Wayne LaPierre said in the news conference that his organisation would finance and develop a programme called the National Model School Shield Programme, which would work with schools to arm and train school guards.<br /><br />The guards would include retired police officers and volunteers.<br />"The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun," LaPierre said.</p>
<p>New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has lashed out at the US National Rifle Association's suggestion that armed guards should be stationed at schools to prevent shooting incidents, saying such a move will create a "more dangerous and violent" America where "no place is safe."<br /><br /></p>.<p>Bloomberg, who has long advocated the need to strengthen the nation's gun control laws, said the powerful gun lobby instead of "offering solutions to a problem they have helped create," are offering a "paranoid, dystopian vision of a more dangerous and violent America where everyone is armed and no place is safe."<br /><br />A week after the tragic shooting in an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, which killed 20 first-grade students and six adults, the National Rifle Association (NRA) in a press conference yesterday blamed violent video games, news media and poor law enforcement for the recent spurt in mass shootings across America.<br /><br />The lobby did not blame guns or the easy availability of dangerous firearms on the shootings and instead floated the idea of arming guards at schools to prevent shootings.<br />NRA Vice President Wayne LaPierre said in the news conference that his organisation would finance and develop a programme called the National Model School Shield Programme, which would work with schools to arm and train school guards.<br /><br />The guards would include retired police officers and volunteers.<br />"The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun," LaPierre said.</p>