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Barton: Armed School Children Prevent School Shootings

Last night, David Barton appeared on Glenn Beck's television program to discuss the "real issues" regarding gun control and the Second Amendment.  After an opening segment(link is external) in which Beck claimed that Obamacare will force people to give up their guns and lead to Nazi-like euthanasia programs, the two got down to business with Barton explaining that the NRA was founded in order to protect(link is external) freed slaves from lynchings and that there never used to be(link is external) school shootings in the 1800s because all of the kids carried guns to school(link is external):