Saturday, April 21, 2007

Liberal battle cry: Take away the guns!!!

Here is what the master has to say on the subject of gun control....another issue liberals use their feelings and not the facts:

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

1 comments:

blamin said...

Damn, what a sharp mind she has! If she were 36-24-36 she would truly be the perfect women! (just kidding...maybe)

I was listening to an interview of a VT alumni, he graduated in the 70's. Seems at one time it was a requirement to join the ROTC and every other person in the dorms had rifles. Vietnam changed all this, got rid of the ROTC requirement, then along came the liberal influences which banned all firearms (oh sure, they gave shallow impassioned arguments for the ban, that sounded really really good!). Next thing you know...well you know.