Tuesday, April 17, 2007

It's time to require responsible people to carry a handgun

In response to the tragedy at Virginia Tech, the New York Times decides to make a little political hay with this gem, “Virginia imposes few restrictions on the purchase of handguns and no requirement for any kind of licensing or training.” First, as a guy who once tried to buy a handgun in Virginia and couldn’t, I know that there are restrictions for law abiding people legally trying to purchase a handgun in Virginia. If Virginia is typical, there are probably a hundred or more local, state and federal laws restricting the purchase of a handgun.

That fact tells the average guy with a brain, gun control doesn’t work. That fact tells clueless liberals, if a hundred laws failed to prevent some whacko from committing mass murder with a handgun; we need a hundred more laws or better yet a ban on handguns. Screw the second amendment. It’s for the children.

We know that more laws are pointless because, once all the facts of this shooting are known, we will find that the evil, deranged, piece of Satan’s excrement that committed this atrocity probably broke dozens of laws. 32 murders, 28 attempted murders are only the most obvious laws that were broken.

The Virginia Tech campus is a “gun free zone” - another testimony to the idiocy and futility of gun control. The only thing that Tech’s gun free zone accomplished was to insure that the ChiCom bastard that committed these murders would be the only person with a gun. Knowing that he could commit this crime unfettered in any way from his victims, the creep actually chained the doors and locked his victims in. What if there were 5-10 responsible citizens in that building with right to carry permits? What if the perp knew that there’d be armed resistance within seconds of him firing the first shot?

Whiners are full of oh my gosh, Columbine, the Amish School House, the Utah mall and now this. Now ask yourself, when did all of these tragedies come to an end? The answer is, when responsible men showed up with guns. In the case of the Utah mall, an off-duty police officer engaged the perp early on and saved an unknown number of lives.

The second point of the Times’ meaningless little quote from above is this, “[Virginia has] no requirement for any kind of licensing or training.” This is hypocrisy of the highest order – even for a liberal institution. When was the last time the Times ran an editorial supporting licensing and training of handgun owners – say those seeking a right to carry permit? Never. The only time the Times comes out in favor of licensing and training is as an afterthought to total gun bans. Well if we can’t ban them all together, let’s at least license them and require a 27 month, 8 hours a day, 7 days a week, training period conducted in the bottom of the Amboy crater outside the Marine desert base at 29 Palms, CA. That’s reasonable gun control.

Just three more things on this tragedy.

1. Every time one of these things happens, I’m tempted to rush out and buy a handgun and 1,000 rounds of ammo before RAT politicians give into emotion and start shredding the constitution.

2. Grief counselors will fan out across the country. In an effort to drum up business, they’ll tell us, it’s OK to be upset. The local news outlets will be full of stories about self-absorbed twits that will use the tragedy to focus attention on themselves.

3. Most of the MSM attention will be focused on the need for more “reasonable gun control” (watch for those three words) rather than holding to account the freak that committed the crime.

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