> > I'm sure security around politicians will be stepped up all the way down the line... but I would think that's about it. The conservatives will never go for new gun legislation....
> Well of course not. There is no reality in which any imaginable law will have or would have had any effect. The laws that could have stopped this are already in place, if proper steps had been taken beforehand.
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> Yeah. He was nuts, and dangerous, and people knew it, and no one bothered to do anything about it.
London's New York's gun control laws didn't save John Lennon from his crazy attacker. It gets said too much, but people keep forgetting... if you outlaw guns... then only outlaws will have guns.
The man who tackled the Arizona shooter had a pistol holstered on his person... and said to the news he was preparing to stop the shooter with his lawful weapon, but he saw the shooter had stopped to reload, so he was able to take down the shooter without using legal lethal means. THAT is the example of responsible civilian concealed weapon possession. Everyone is ignoring this tidbit of info. Had that shooter not stopped to reload, but instead kept shooting, isn't it comforting to know a law-abiding citizen was there armed and prepared to stop the madness?
We'll see, if in Obama's presidential address today, if he steps up and does the right thing (which is to offer his condolences to the victims of the acts from a deranged lunitic), or if he takes the irresponsible road and uses the acts of a lone crazy gunman to propel irrelevant political agendas. I've seen him go both ways... so we'll see...
Edited by Gatinho (01/12/11 06:33 PM)
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