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If you were baffled or shocked by the National Rifle Association's Wayne LaPierre calling for more guns in schools at his riveting post-Newtown press conference, odds are it's because you don't speak LaPierre's language. The assertions by the gun lobby's executive vice president shocked even some conservatives, but among real gun nuts, they were surely very familiar. In fact, almost line-by-line, what LaPierre said in Washington on Friday was posted all over Facebook by anonymous gun lovers over the course of the last week. Just look how closely they match up:

LaPierre: "Politicians pass laws for Gun-Free School Zones. They issue press releases bragging about them. They post signs advertising them. And in so doing, they tell every insane killer in America that schools are their safest place to inflict maximum mayhem with minimum risk."

The gun Internet:

(Posted by the group Right-Winged Birds of Pray.)

LaPierre: "We care about the President, so we protect him with armed Secret Service agents. Members of Congress work in offices surrounded by armed Capitol Police officers. Yet when it comes to the most beloved, innocent and vulnerable members of the American family — our children — we as a society leave them utterly defenseless, and the monsters and predators of this world know it and exploit it."