NRA's LaPierre lashes out at gun control efforts during CPAC speech

Wild applause greets LaPierre's CPAC address, in which he defended his call to put armed guards in America's schools

Wayne LaPierre, the head of the biggest gun lobby group in the US, defended his call to put armed guards in every school on Friday and declared that the answer to violent crime was to put guns in the hands of more people.

Speaking to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) just outside Washington DC, LaPierre mocked those who call him "crazy" and delivered a powerful call for the widespread use of guns for Americans to defend themselves.

"The one thing a violent rapist deserves to face is a good woman with a gun," he said, to wild applause.

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