"Twelve children will die today from gun fire. Another twelve tomorrow. And the day after and the day after. We cannot allow this to go on. No More Delays on Common-Sense Gun Laws.

"Congress must act immediately to:
- Require locks or other safety devices on all guns
- Ban the sale of semiautomatic assault rifles
- Stop the sale and importation of high-capacity ammunition clips
- Require mandatory background checks
- Prohibit handgun possession by those under 21
- Establish tip lines for students to alert adults about potential violence

"Today, on behalf of the entire NEA education family -- teachers, secretaries, bus drivers, teachers aides, school security personnel, cafeteria workers, and custodians we've taken the lead on video programming to help communities work to prevent violence at school. The NEA is doing its part to keep schools safe by doing what education employees do best: teaching and learning. We have collected the very best, absolutely proven safe school practices in the nation and we are training our members to use these techniques. It is called the NEA Safe Schools Now Network. Schools all over the country are receiving this program free, via satellite."

• FULL QUOTE: NEA.org/nr/st000509.html

"The NEA and AFT have implemented programs to reduce youth violence in schools and both groups support tough gun laws to keep young people from getting guns."

• FULL QUOTE: CommonDreams.org/news2001/1016-03.htm

"The Association believes that strict proscriptive regulations are necessary for the manufacture, importation, distribution, sale and resale of handguns and ammunition magazines."

• FULL QUOTE: http://GunWeek.com/2000/teachers.html

"Pope, Thomas and 1,600 NEA members from all 50 states signed a full-page ad in the Washington Post, imploring Congress to take immediate action to protect children. The vast display of educator support for child protection from guns would not fit in the advertisement, and NEA has posted additional names on its website at www.nea.org."

• FULL QUOTE: WEAC.org/News/1999-00/may00/guns.htm

"If the Department of Education has become the mechanism by which local education dollars are squandered, it is the National Education Association that has become the most prolific source of ideas for squandering them." -- U.S. Representative Joe Scarborough[1]

[1] The Fiscal Impact of the NEA's Legislative Agenda, John Berthoud, The Alexis de Tocqueville Institution, 3/4/96, p.1.

• FULL QUOTE: http://NTU.org/main/press.php?PressID=333&org_name=NTUF

"Education, it can easily be argued, is the path towards the evolution of society. If this is indeed true, then American society may very well be in danger. Unfortunately for American children, the very future of this country, the education system of the U.S. is one of absolute abomination. At the heart of the failure of American education is the very group millions of parents and teachers trust with the future of our children--the National Education Association. Fortunately, despite NEA lobbyists, the Clinton-Gore history standards were soundly rejected by the Senate, 99-1."

• FULL QUOTE: http://TomHarzula.com/commentary/TomHarzula/20030304.htm

"In his monumental work Point Blank: Guns and Violence in America, Professor Kleck found that the defensive uses of firearms by citizens amount to 2.5 million times per year and dwarf the offensive gun uses by criminals. Between 25 and 75 lives are saved by a gun for every life lost to a gun.

"The true measure of the protective benefits of guns are the lives saved, the injuries prevented, the medical costs saved, and the property protected -- not the burglar or rapist body count. Since only 0.1%-0.2% of defensive gun usage involves the death of the criminal, any study, such as this, that counts criminal deaths as the only measure of the protective benefits of guns will expectedly underestimate the benefits of firearms by a factor of 500 to 1,000."

• FULL QUOTE: http://TheNewAmerican.com/tna/1996/vo12no20/vo12no20_guns.htm

Let Freedom Ring: Winning the War of Liberty Over Liberalism
by Sean Hannity: http://amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060514558

Public Education: An Autopsy
by Myron Lieberman: http://amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0674722345

Power Grab: How the National Education Association is Betraying Our Children
by Gregory Moo: http://amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0895263157

NEA Takes Aim at 2nd Amendment:
http://EagleForum.org/educate/2000/aug00/nea-aim.html