How do you feel about gun control? That's the key question.
Also, since you can't actually stop people from doing something as terrible as shooting up the Newtown school, you need to control guns so you can feel like you're doing something to help. Just telling yourself that evil happens isn't good enough.
And don't start with your suggestions about arming school staff. We all know where that would lead, don't we.
I love the pic someone posted the other day of Israeli school children with their female teacher and she had a rifle slung on her back.
Good points. And if we have learned anything in the Climate Change/Global Warming debate, feelings are all that matter. So heading into the next Ice Age, we are getting rid of our ability to cheaply generate heat. Why ? Because some idiots want to feel good before they freeze to death. Now we are looking into getting rid of guns, just before the Iranians let loose all their sleeper cells. Why ? Because some idiots want to feel good before they are shot down in a mall by an Islamic terrorist.
Great link.
How do you feel about gun control? That's the key question.
I was listening to NPR on the drive home from work yesterday and they had some liberal college professor talking about gun control. This professor freely admitted that the previous assault weapon ban had no measurable impact on crime whatsoever but that we needed one anyways because assault weapons "scare our national psyche" and "we'd feel better" if they were banned.