Israeli spokesman: Wayne LaPierre lied about our country and gun control on Meet the Press.

Courtesy of New York Daily News:  

Appearing on “Meet the Press” on Sunday, NRA honcho LaPierre said: “Israel had a whole lot of school shootings, until they did one thing. They said we’re going to stop it and they put armed security in every school and they have not had a problem since then.” 

But Yigal Palmor, spokesman for the Israeli Foreign Ministry, said the situation in Israel was “fundamentally different” from that in the United States. 

“We didn’t have a series of school shootings, and they had nothing to do with the issue at hand in the United States. We had to deal with terrorism,” said Palmor. 

“What removed the danger was not the armed guards but an overall anti-terror policy and anti-terror operations which brought street terrorism down to nearly zero over a number of years,” he said. “It would be better not to drag Israel into what is an internal American discussion,” he added. 

“There is no comparison between maniacs with psychological problems opening fire at random to kill innocent people and trained terrorists trying to murder Israeli children,” said Reuven Berko, a retired Israeli Army colonel and senior police officer. 

In recent years, restrictions on gun ownership in Israel have been tightened, not relaxed. 

“Israeli citizens are not allowed to carry guns unless they are serving in the army or working in security-related jobs that require them to use a weapon,” said Berko. 

You know it is like the Right Wing and NRA don't understand that we live in a global community where information can be shared very quickly and lies are only minutes or days away from being revealed. 

Well just in case during your Christmas festivities today you have a gun nut in the family, now you have actual facts to combat those completely fabricated talking points.