[LoneStarLegend78]

Wow! One POTUS candidate that gets it. Run Fred, please run. And he’s exactly right, gun free zones=free kill zones.

[snowsislander]

Yes, the author is on solid ground here.

I went to look at the link, but I didn't see it?

[angkor]

Yesterday there was some news coverage of the 2002 incident at a Virginia law school in which a shooter was stopped by three or four students, at least two of whom had retrieved handguns from their vehicles in the parking lot.

The perp surrendured to them once he realized they were armed, but unfortunately he’d already killed two or three people.

[SauronOfMordor]

And before anybody starts with “Giving guns to 18 year old beer-swilling frat boys?!?!”, keep in mind that most places you need to be 21 to get a CCW. This means we’re excluding most undergrads (beer swilling or not), and mainly talking about allowing FACULTY and grad students to carry.

[Vaquero]

BINGO!!!!!

let see fRutty attempt that one.

Fred just has it right in sooo many ways.....

[RatsDawg]

“That means that Virginians regularly sit in movie theaters and eat in restaurants among armed citizens. They walk, joke and rub shoulders everyday with people who responsibly carry firearms — and are far safer than they would be in San Francisco, Oakland, Detroit, Chicago, NEW YORK CITY, or Washington, D.C., where such permits are difficult or impossible to obtain.” - Fred Thompson

TAKE THAT RUDY!

[Brouhaha]

I’ve been waiting for a solid explanation as to why I should care about Fred Thompson’s presidential candidacy. It appears that I have just received one.

[TLI]

Communities that recognize and grant Second Amendment rights to responsible adults have a significantly lower incidence of violent crime than those that do not.

Yep, they are much lower. But I wish Fred would user the correct terminology. No one, no community, no government "grants" Second Amendment Rights. They issue a permit to carry a hidden firearm in public.

[Eastbound]

Bump for uncommon sense.

[metesky]

Good column. BTTT.

[kevkrom]

FRed ping!

(And I think you can add me to the ping list now...)

[NonValueAdded]

Fred continues to impress

[SE Mom]

“The logic behind this attitude baffles me, but I suspect it has to do with a basic difference in worldviews. Some people think that power should exist only at the top, and everybody else should rely on “the authorities” for protection.” - Fred Thompson-

HONK!

[LonePalm]

Communities that recognize and grant Second Amendment rights to responsible adults have a significantly lower incidence of violent crime than those that do not.

Love ya Fred but you missed the boat on this line. Communities can recognize or deny 2^nd Amendment rights but they can't grant them.

Lest anyone think I am being too picky here, the Constitution does not grant rights. It merely enumerates and affirms rights that we hold irrespective of the Constitution.

We need to keep making this point over and over until people stop thinking that the government grants us ANYTHING. Government is, at its best, a necessary evil and at its worst, an intolerable one.

That said,

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[NRA1995]

People would never be willing to pay the taxes it would take for a government to fully protect a disarmed society from predators.

[JimRed]

Communities that recognize and grant do not interfere with Second Amendment rights to responsible adults have a significantly lower incidence of violent crime than those that do not.

Communities do not "grant" the right; they only interfere with it.

[Dick Bachert]

“A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity.”
Sigmund Freud

Now we know why most Dimocrats favor gun control.

[Still Thinking]

The only part I don’t like about all these proposals is that they’re linked to CCW, which require you to be on file with the govt. Though, I guess, if 60% of the public does it, it WOULD put the government on notice.

[manic4organic]

I just heard Mike Gallagher and Chris Wallace debating this issue on Mike’s show. Wallace said something like “so we should just have everyone in class packing?” Gallagher disappointed me by responding with “well, if the weapons in a safe place...” No, no, no, Mike.

[jellybean]

Still, there are a lot of people who are just offended by the notion that people can carry guns around. They view everybody, or at least many of us, as potential murderers prevented only by the lack of a convenient weapon. Virginia Tech administrators overrode Virginia state law and threatened to expel or fire anybody who brings a weapon onto campus.

An armed society is a polite society.

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