NBC's Channel 9 News covered the recent shootings in Colorado Springs pretty extensively.
Naturally, we want to prevent these killings, these murders, these shootings. So the simple answer is to prevent these nuts from getting their hands on guns. Right?
Maybe not. No, really!!!!
Retro post from last year.
The places that are attacked by these lone nuts are places that disallow guns. No teachers, no security personnel, only a police officer on call can bring a weapon on to a school or college campus, the malls have signs posted "GUN FREE ZONE" They may as well post "No Defense Allowed" for a lone attacker. The nut who attacked this church and the Youth With A Mission camp assumed the same was true of Christians. Thank God for the common sense of the church leaders to provide enhanced security after the YWAM shootings. Note: Yes people still died at the church, but guess what? Without the enhanced security, the dead and injured very well could have numbered into the hundreds and certainly would have numbered over 20 except that someone present and responsible was armed and qualified to use their weapon. More guns, more gun education equals greater safety.
There is a movement to rid our society of hand guns. A major step toward this goal is known as the Brady Bill named after James Brady who was shot during the attack on President Reagon. Brady suffered severe brain damage and is used to lobby the body politic to outlaw hand guns and assault weapons. Initially the effort was to instill a waiting period for weapons purchasers to be investigated for their legal status. The movement has, hrrrrmmmph, PROGRESSED to an all out ban on hand guns and assault rifles.
Just an aside, the liberals/progressives are good at poster childing those who don't have the ability to stand on their own cognitive merits. ie. brain damaged, children, mentally challenged, and just plain ignorant.
Anyway, with the advent of terror tactics making their way onto the nightly news, uh, nightly, it is no surprise that the same terror tactics are finding their way into our own society. So naturally, any nut with a bend for Hell is likely to employ this newly popularized method of protest. Its becoming the norm to -"take as many with me as I can when I go."- among suicide cases. This way they will have made the statement the suicides of old wanted to make only to their loved ones. "You don't deserve me! Yada, yada" but they now are not only selfish beyond reason, to the point of literal self destruction, they're narcissistic and elitist to boot! (Narcism)
Another aside, news agencies provide interesting stories. If it isn't interesting, it isn't reported, or at least, not for very long. They are a (stay with me here) big business. Just like many other big businesses, they use their power to influence the market to their own advantage. Lately, though, many of these agencies have joined the faith based church of liberalism, er excuse me, progression to advent for the Politically Correct agenda of the day, "Anti-gun" "Anti-tobacco" "Anti-junk food" "Global Warming." (I still remember the global cooling scare of the 1970's, so this latest nonsense is just bothersome!!!)
Ok, time to get to my point here. Look carefully at what it takes to stop a nutcase. IT USUALLY REQUIRES A BULLET and therefore, a gun. It doesn't matter what he is using to bring terror, be it a knife, a gun, a bomb, a victim held over a ledge, a speeding car or truck, whatever. They get what they want just by being on the news. They make a name for themselves, THEY ARE HEARD!!! The bumper sticker you've read on the pickup trucks and jeeps "Outlaw guns and only outlaws will have guns" makes the point proven in that church. A security volunteer licensed and qualified to carry a concealed carry weapon, shot the killer, the murderer, the nutcase dead before he could do any further damage. He managed to injure four before then, but what if she flinched, what if she ran the other way or just hid? How many would he have killed before he turned the gun on himself?
Its an old argument, but its making more sense than ever now that suicidal terrorists are shooting up our schools, our malls, our churches, our McDonalds, etc., The police do a lot and I appreciate them to no end, but they can't be everywhere, and they can't do it all. However, if every shooter nutcase had a sense that he will not make the news tonight and will likely go down in the ground without any more whimper by society than the understandable pain of his own family, then this method of 'to quote a former friend of one of the nuts' "going out in style" will lose its appeal before the trend can gain any more speed.
Otherwise, put armed guards at the doors to every church, mall, and McDonalds in the land.
]]>Random school shootings are coming more and more often and everybody is wondering why they do it and, more importantly, how we can stop them. Its time to take drastic measures. Its time to take a hard look at real world examples of what works.
A small town in Florida was dealing with a rapid increase in violent crime. The city council decided to create a new ordinance that required every citizen to carry a weapon. They did not have to load it and the police did not enforce the ordinance, but those who had a desire to did begin carrying concealed weapons. Almost overnight, the violent crime rate fell very near to nill. Removing all guns literally creates an environment that provokes violent crime, while making them more available actually greatly reduces violence.
The advocacy of gun free zones, especially posting a sign describing these zones as such in schools, malls, fast food restaurants, they might as well have posted; Gunmen, Nobody Here Will Resist You! Everywhere personal firearms are banned, violent crime rates have skyrocketed. Why? Because the crooks know that there will likely be no force prepared to repel them, not only gun violence but also knife attacks, baseball bat attacks, etc., Why wouldn't they? After all, they are crooks. Personally, I wouldn't prefer being killed or attacked by knife or baseball bat over a gun.
With kids finding access to guns and with the absence of guidance in dealing with failure and frustration in the liberal Western culture and with the news giving these stories all the attention theses kids desire for the ultimate statement, create a recipe for repeated horror stories. This feeds the news industry so they have no incentive to correct their lack of ethics any more than the kids have any incentive to seek a different outlet to express their frustration.
The only answer left is to require every authority figure in the schools to conceal carry, from the Dean to the custodian. The only answer to runaway violent crime is to require everybody to take responsibility for the defense of themselves and their charges. In the same way we force kids to take driver training, we should force every adult to take gun safety courses and allow them to have the tools and if they have charges, require them to carry the tools. When crooks are faced with even odds of survival or death vs. uneven odds in favor of success, they naturally weigh the opportunity to gain or force their will on the innocent against the likelihood of dieing instead of (usually long after the crime) merely getting caught, convicted, and spending time in confinement. (often considered a badge of honor in their peer group) For the nutso facto element perpetrating terror on schools and other so-called gun free zones, the news report of a shootout just doesn't carry the same glory as the nation-wide coverage of another loan gunman randomly shooting students and faculty.
The insanity of the current mindset of progressive Western culture that guns, gun dealers, and gun makers are guilty of dealing death, at the same time they fight for the preservation of the gun wielders who do these great acts of evil who were caught, convicted, and sentenced to death creates the environment that provokes and promotes irresponsible conduct. Only a moral idiot can advocate gun control, preservation of guilty and evil perpetrators and condemn the makers and dealers who provide tools for self defense. With great power comes great responsibility. With the nanny state (powerlessness) comes great irresponsibility. With responsibility comes great consequences. Without responsibility, there are greater consequences. With great consequence comes caution and a serious life outlook, not necessarily applied with any wisdom. Passions run high whichever side of this issue you are on but only one side looks at the evidence for what works rather than emoting an oversimplified cure-all. If you don't want to carry, then don't, let the grownups deal with the evil. But don't equate the grownups with the terrible evil doers just because they use the same deadly tools.