Posted on 04/18/2007 4:15:13 PM PDT by goldstategop
From the attacks of 9-11 to Monday's school shooting, after every mass murder there is an overwhelming urge to "do something" to prevent a similar attack.
But since Adam ate the apple and let evil into the world, deranged individuals have existed.
Most of the time they can't be locked up until it's too late. It's not against the law to be crazy – in some jurisdictions it actually makes you more viable as a candidate for public office.
It's certainly not against the law to be an unsociable loner. If it were, Ralph Nader would be behind bars right now, where he belongs. Mass murder is often the first serious crime unbalanced individuals are caught committing – as appears to be in the case of the Virginia Tech shooting.
The best we can do is enact policies that will reduce the death toll when these acts of carnage occur, as they will in a free and open society of 300 million people, most of whom have cable TV.
Only one policy has ever been shown to deter mass murder: concealed-carry laws. In a comprehensive study of all public, multiple-shooting incidents in America between 1977 and 1999, the inestimable economists John Lott and Bill Landes found that concealed-carry laws were the only laws that had any beneficial effect.
And the effect was not insignificant. States that allowed citizens to carry concealed handguns reduced multiple-shooting attacks by 60 percent and reduced the death and injury from these attacks by nearly 80 percent.
Apparently, even crazy people prefer targets that can't shoot back. The reason schools are consistently popular targets for mass murderers is precisely because of all the idiotic "Gun-Free School Zone" laws.
From the people who brought you "zero tolerance," I present the Gun-Free Zone! Yippee! Problem solved! Bam! Bam! Everybody down! Hey, how did that deranged loner get a gun into this Gun-Free Zone?
It isn't the angst of adolescence. Plenty of school shootings have been committed by adults with absolutely no reason to be at the school, such as Laurie Dann, who shot up the Hubbard Woods Elementary School in Winnetka, Ill., in 1988; Patrick Purdy, who opened fire on children at Cleveland Elementary School in Stockton, Calif., in 1989; and Charles Carl Roberts, who murdered five schoolgirls at an Amish school in Lancaster County, Pa., last year.
Oh, by the way, the other major "Gun-Free Zone" in America is the post office.
But instantly, on the day of the shooting at Virginia Tech, the media were already promoting gun control and pre-emptively denouncing right-wingers who point out that gun control enables murderers rather than stopping them. Liberals get to lobby for gun control, but we're disallowed from arguing back. That's how good their arguments are. They're that good.
Needless to say, Virginia Tech is a Gun-Free School Zone – at least until last Monday. The gunman must not have known. Imagine his embarrassment! Perhaps there should be signs.
Virginia Tech even prohibits students with concealed-carry permits from carrying their guns on campus. Last year, the school disciplined a student for carrying a gun on campus, despite his lawful concealed-carry permit. If only someone like that had been in Norris Hall on Monday, this massacre could have been ended a lot sooner.
But last January, the Virginia General Assembly shot down a bill that would have prevented universities like Virginia Tech from giving sanctuary to mass murderers on college campuses in Virginia by disarming students with concealed-carry permits valid in the rest of the state.
Virginia Tech spokesman Larry Hincker praised the legislature for allowing the school to disarm lawful gun owners on the faculty and student body, thereby surrendering every college campus in the state to deranged mass murderers, saying: "I'm sure the university community is appreciative of the General Assembly's actions because this will help parents, students, faculty and visitors feel safe on our campus."
Others disagreed. Writing last year about another dangerous killer who had been loose on the Virginia Tech campus, graduate student Jonathan McGlumphy wrote: "Is it not obvious that all students, faculty and staff would have been safer if (concealed handgun permit) holders were not banned from carrying their weapons on campus?"
If it wasn't obvious then, it is now.
It is complicated, of course, but here is a very quick explaination:
Liberals want to be the ones who will protect you, even though the actual mechanism is through the power of big government.
If you should exhibit the audacity to try to protect yourself, then there is no need for them or their government to do it.
Another reason is because if you are able to protect yourself, and they are not, it seems "unfair" to them. How dare you have some advantage over them!
Or maybe you were just kidding about not being able to figure it out.
Meaning violent felonies, such as murder, for instance.
(q) Any murder convictions?
(perp)Did you say convictions?
(q)Convictions.
(perp)Nope, no convictions for murder.
Can someone help me out? I can’t figure out why I am having such a time posting a photo.
outstanding!
Unfortunately, he'd only be considered evil by the MSM if he were a WASP.
bttt
Exactly.
It is difficult for us to understand their world view because we simply don't think as they do.
The same is true in reverse as well. They hate us because they can't understand how we think.
Thanks knewsie :)
Thanks for that link - that is one of Ann’s all-time best essays.
Keep me on even though I don’t get to post.
I love Ann.
What you have to love is this Psycho had a prof who threatened to resign if he wasn’t rmeoved from her class. The Tutor he was then assigned refered him to Psychological Services. Another class of seventy students only had seven who would attend fo rfear we was going to shoot the class up. He had police complaints from two female students for stalking them. Police picked him up on a detention order and commited him to a mental institution for evaluation.
But he doesn’t get expelled.
The licensed student with a Concealed Carry Weapons permit from the State of Virgina, who carried a gun on campus for self defense (And who was the only guy who could have stopped this) is Expelled.
Liberal Logic?
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PC is going to bury us.
No one is being removed. I've just asked Knews_hound to take over the list for a while. I'm overwhelmed with FRed Thompson pings and the Ann pings get lost in the mix. Knewsie usually finds the Ann Coulter threads before I do and pings me. I don't want anyone to miss Ann's cutting edge opinions and humor.
I'll write to you soon once I get caught up. :) HUGGS
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What do you want a solution to? Violent crime has dropped dramatically in the last twenty years. This crime was very much an aberration. School shootings are not all that common and certainly not solely a U.S. phenomena.
Taking mental illness more seriously might help. There was a time when someone like this would have been involuntarily hospitalized. The ACLU ended that. That goes against the principle that "your rights end where my rights begin." A nutcake's right to be free in society now trumps the rights of others to be safe from violence.
You seem to lean towards more gun control but the campus was gun free. The guy didn't legally buy his guns as some are saying. Legally he was prohibited from buying a gun but that info wasn't available to the gun seller through the national database due to HIPPA privacy laws. Not that he couldn't have obtained guns illegally, on the street. Black markets make prohibited items more available not less.
Do you have any solutions? Do you have any clear idea what it is you want to solve?
Good articles on teaching students to confront school shooters.
Go to:
Students Trained to Fight School Shooters
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1818981/posts
Thursday, October 26, 2006
K-STATE EXPERT APPLAUDS EFFORT TO TEACH CHILDREN TO COMBAT SCHOOL SHOOTERS, OTHER VIOLENT INTRUDERS IN THE CLASSROOM
http://www.mediarelations.k-state.edu/newsreleases/oct06/smith102606.html
The Washington Post has this article, explaining how the victim (sheeple) can choose where exactly he or she wants to cower and cringe before being executed by the shooter:
‘That Was the Desk I Chose to Die Under
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/18/AR2007041802824_pf.html
I prefer NOT to be a victim!
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