Mike Hendrick's of the Kansas City Star wrote an op-ed on 4/18/07 suggesting that the solution to mass shootings is more gun control. This is the most perverse logic.
Can you imagine a world where someone is free to shoot and kill 32 people with probably hundreds of witnesses, all of whom would have had an easy shot to put a stop to the killing after his first or second shot. But not one of them had the tool needed to end the killing and the killing went on till the maniac was satiated.
Virginia is a must issue concealed carry state but the university campus is under special laws. The state legislature, in its idiocy, made the campus (and every campus in Virginia) a gun free zone. Thus, the crazies that will always be among us can shoot up a school without opposition till the police arrive. Even if they show up in 5 or 10 minutes, many will die because no one on the scene can stop the insanity.
Isn't it obvious that it was gun control that killed all but the first few fictims? Isn't it obvious that more of the same poison is not the solution?
The results are in. Where people can defend themselves, mass shootings do not happen! It is an unspeakable crime to force people into a defenseless position.
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Mike,
I hate guns, but I will forever support the 2nd amendment at the federal level and corresponding freedom at the state level.
I am not sure I am in favor of encouraging students to carry guns, but I would never take the right to do so from them.
SLW
And Mike.....
While I will always support the right to bear arms....
I would never sign up for the legalization of drugs.
You have to draw a line in the sand somewhere if you are going to call yourself a civilization. I don't mind having that debate...but I am not ready to legalize narcotics or anything else.
The fact that we could not control liquor during prohibition is not a reason to cave on drugs.
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SLW
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