Thursday, February 14, 2008

 

NIU SHOOTING IS YET ANOTHER ‘GUN FREE ZONE’ FAILURE

The tragic shooting at Northern Illinois University this afternoon is yet another failure of the "gun free zone" mentality that has created a false sense of security on college campuses, shopping malls and other public venues across this country. "Gun free zones" do nothing but create live "shooting galleries" for sociopaths like today's killer.

Isn't it sad that among the 150 students in that classroom today there wasn't at least one student who was licensed to carry a weapon who could have stopped the killer before he finished his 5-dead, 13-wounded rampage.

So, while Katie and Charlie and Brian whine on about "the monumental number of handguns in this country", remember this: A gun is nothing more than an inanimate object. It becomes is a murder weapon in the wrong hands--a tool for protection and salvation in the right ones.

posted by huggy 8:58 PM