Reuters: U.S.: Obama skeptical of NRA proposal to put more guns in schools

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Obama skeptical of NRA proposal to put more guns in schools Dec 30th 2012, 14:21 WASHINGTON | Sun Dec 30, 2012 9:08am EST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said in an interview broadcast on Sunday he hopes to get new U.S. gun control measures passed during the first year of his second term and is skeptical of a proposal by the National Rifle Association to put armed guards in schools. Obama assigned Vice President Joe Biden to lead a task force to come up with proposals on guns at the beginning of 2013 after the massacre of 20 children and six adults by a gunman at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut this month. "I'd like to get it done in the first year. I will put forward a very specific proposal based on the recommendations that Joe Biden's task force is putting together as we speak. And so this is not something that I will be putting off," Obama told NBC's "Meet the Press" in an interview taped on Saturday. "I am not going to prejudge the recommendations that are given to me. I am skeptical that the only answer is putting more guns in schools. And I think the vast majority of the American people are skeptical that that somehow is going to solve our problem," he said. The NRA, the influential pro-gun lobbying group, has said new gun laws are not a good answer and has called for some form of armed guards to be present in all U.S. schools.

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