A Good Year for the Outlaw

I continue to read letters-to-the-editor and hear comments from idiotic talk show hosts (there’s a particularly idiotic one on 1420 AM in the Quad Cities, a guy who is just to the political right of Attila the Hun) who are so far gone, it’s laughably tragic.

You know what I’m talking about, it’s this argument: “If the faculty, law abiding citizens, would have been able to carry firearms to class, they could’ve stopped this.” Oh, what-freaking-EVER. My god, that is the lamest argument in HISTORY. What do these people want? Dodge City, 1870? For the love of keeey-rist, what sense does that make.

Consider:

We now know this killer was all of these things:

depressed; violent in his writings; creepy; intimidating towards professors and students; suicidal; had undergone psychological tests; a possessor of all of the “classic signs” of a serial murderer, according to experts now being interviewed on the cable news channels.

He was ALL those things, yet he had NO record (therefore, a “law abiding citizen”) and was able to walk into a gun store and purchase a freaking handgun (you don’t HUNT with a handgun, people), with no waiting period, no background check other than the “quick check” with the police to determine he had no record, and the store owner saying, “looked just like any other clean cut college kid”, and no other questions asked.

Yet, there is a sizable portion of the population, not using your entire brain power, saying that “law abiding” professors and staff members should just be allowed to walk around with a concealed weapon. Then who in the hell is to say one of these professors, suffering from anxiety or depression or going through a divorce or whatever, who is to say they wouldn’t do the same thing?

The fault in the system is not that there are NOT ENOUGH guns, it’s that there are TOO MANY guns. Period. And the ease at which they can be acquired, PARTICULARLY if you’re a “law abiding” citizen.

Sheesh.