pistol... don't leave home without it!!!
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.
ALL college Presidents MUST be crazy.. and the goulish minions that work for them..
Moonbat, eye rolling, tongue hanging out crazy..
Few American college officials even know that Socialism is Slavery by Givernment..
But thats about money, talk about GUUUNS and they really go nutz..
She needs to be put on The View to counter Rosie's nauseous invective. Just for kicks.
I think Ann’s columns are always good, and this one is no exception. Sometimes I find her columns a little “raw.” I think it is because they are based on raw logic (in addition to being very well informed). Her writing lacks the soft edges of many authors, male and female both. For a while, I was reading her articles a week or two late so that the emotions of today’s news would wear off. But then, I’m one or two weeks late on her keen insights, logical juxtapositions, and citing of relevant case history.
Speaking of the emotions of today’s news, my wife watched Shepard Smith and they were both choking up with tears welling in the eyes.
“Terrorists, starting with airline hijackers, turn violence into theater - all for the purpose of news coverage.”
And terrorists used BOX CUTTERS to take over airplanes, thanks to laws which emasculated passengers’ wills to survive.
He who has the will and the opportunity can do much harm. Much lethal harm.
To sit back passively and both watch and let anything like this happen—may we never do this again. May we never teach our children to throw up their hands in fear or line up meekly before those who would kill, whatever that means of killing might be.
pistol... don't leave home without it!!!
Love your ideas Ann!
“don’t worry the government and law enforcement will protect us”
After we’re dead. After we’re cowed. After we are soylent green. After we hand over our luggage, clothes, hair and jewelry on our way to the showers.
Yup. Last night on Glenn Beck the guest host had on Ted Nugent and some drone from Sarah Brady Campaign. The Nuge was first and he was right on the money of course. Then the SB drone opened up with several outright lies. Bald-faced lies that "studies show that everywhere there are more guns, towns, cities, countries there is more viiolence."
Unfortunately that was then end of the segment. Nugent didn't get a chance to respond and I know he would have flat out called the guy a liar and he would have cited John Lott or some other researcher/study by name. Unlike the anti-gun liar.
POST OF THE DAY!
I watched part of an interview with the president of NBC and he said there were portions of the videos that would never be shown.
2005 - "I think it's fair to say that we believe guns don't belong in the classroom. In an academic environment, we believe you should be free from fear." - Larry Hincker2006 - "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." - Larry Hincker celebrating the defeat of the bill allowing guns on campus
Heretic!
Ann hit all the notes (including grammar and usage) PERFECTLY in this one.
LOL... I was expecting a answer like that.
And liberals too!
Redundant. 8^)
Also send a copy to Chicago Mayor Daley.
“And you know my position about gun violence and too many guns in our society. And I don’t care what people think, to the left or to the right, there are too many guns in our society. Too many children have lost their lives in this great country.”
I can’t wait to move from the U.S.S.I. (United Socialist State of Illinois)
We live in a “everybody has a gun” area. Crime rate - zero. Why? Because we all have guns. There’s some driving fast, some drunks acting like drunks and from time to time some domestic violence, which are quickly taken care of. Where? I’m not going to tell because we are afraid of folks who want to live in such an environment, but want to bring along their liberal crap.
There would be bloodshed ya’know.
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