Press Release: GOA Comments on School Shooting

GOA Denounces Gun Free School Zones
– New Orleans Shooting Shows Zones Fail to Protect

For Immediate Release
April 14, 2003
Contact: Ellie McDaniel
703-321-8585

(Springfield, VA) — Gun Owners of America today drew attention to
the shooting at the John McDonogh High School in New Orleans.

“This tragedy might have been prevented by the presence of armed
teachers and other employees at the school,” said Larry Pratt, Gun
Owners of America Executive Director.

“Last year, a Research 2000 poll found that 85% of Americans would
find it appropriate for a principal or teacher to use ‘a gun at
school to defend the lives of students’ to stop a school massacre.

“Today’s shooting offers the latest evidence that gun free zones are
a misnomer. They are a criminal safe zone,” said Pratt.

-GOA-

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Larry Pratt is the Executive Director of Gun Owners of America,
a national gun lobby with over 350,000 members located at
8001 Forbes Place, Springfield, VA 22151 and at
http://www.gunowners.org on the web.

Either Larry Pratt or another GOA spokesman is available for press
interviews.

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