Posted on 12/16/2012 7:32:04 AM PST by marktwain
SCREAMING mums at schools, dads cradling children... it’s all too familiar to those of us who live in the United States.
Hours after the latest outrage the internet was awash with the unapologetic views of those who live and die by the gun.
Take this: “No crime would be permitted on my property because I am f****** armed. I can’t wait to kill someone legally.”
Or this from Alan Gottlieb, head of the pro-gun 2nd Amendment Foundation: “There was nobody in that school allowed a firearm. I find that deplorable. I’m sure Lanza felt he could go in because no one had a gun.”
It’s insane. Insane to think teachers should be armed and insanity itself to try to explain the killer’s motives.
(Excerpt) Read more at mirror.co.uk ...
The world is ruled by force. Better to have balancing forces, than to create disarmed victim zones.
If you weren’t born and raised here you will without a doubt have no concept of our inherent rights which are supposed to be protected from the government. Sadly too many people are under the impression these days that the government grants these rights. Not so. Typical brit.
Share the lead.
The English method of dealing with bad people with guns:
Chuck them and run to a little boat on the beach to take you away.
No mass school schootings in Israel since 1974. Their staff pack guns..big guns.
Okay. Let’s say that we get more “gun control” laws and some guy decides he wants to kill a bunch of kindergartners and shows up with a samurai sword. Who in the school is going to be brave enough to approach the guy and take the sword away from him?
I thought we told you folks in England a LONG time ago to stop telling us how to live. What part of “Mind your own business!” do you NOT understand?
400+ dead in Chicago alone for 2012...mostly black on black violence...No tears shed or outrage.
Would Adam Lanza have even thought about killing people at Sandy Hook Elementary School if he knew the principal and teachers were armed?
All schools have to consider what they will do now. How do they protect themselves. A sign on the door that says “no guns allowed” obviously isn’t going to deter an Adam Lanza.
Bank Guards are armed
Armored truck guards are armed also.
is money worth more than Children? I dont think so
The traitorous Connecticut governor and state legislators who passed laws establishing school as “gun-free zones” are co-conspirators with the Sandy Hook murderer.
May these unrepentant 2nd Amendment traitors, especially the leftstream media anti-gun advocates and other political leaders who rip away the right of school administrators and teachers to defend themselves and their students, burn in hell twice as long as the piece of excrement that committed such murders.
I might add....No candle light services...no “professional” mourners...no syrupy songs....no Hollywood stars breaking down on camera...little sickening 24/7 media coverage for 24 weeks of every movement of the victims families... no call to ban RAP music...
The libs should demand that specially trained attack unicorns be posted by every school entrance.
[you never see anybody start a killing spree at a gun show.~lots~ of diverse people go to them and the odds are that ~some~ of them are possibly not very sane..but they never open fire..now why is that?]
Chuck them and run to a little boat on the beach to take you away.
I didn't know until recently that the Channel Islands didn't adopt the gun control measures that have plagued most of the U.K.
Perhaps people there are more mindful of these issues because those islands were actually occupied by the Nazis.
My mother was born in Jersey and was there during the occupation. I think she would not give away a weapon too easily now. Her family all made it through the war unscathed, just! Unlike a couple of families she knew from school which in hindsight she thinks must have had Jewish blood. The Channel Islands have a long history of invasion and I think would know the value of a good weapon.
Mel
This is factually incorrect.
Almost every country in Europe and most other industrialized (and non-totalitarian) countries around the world have much lower gun ownership and (partially consequently) lower murder rates than the USA, despite in many cases having a considerably higher general violent crime rate. Thus, demonstrably having "made a difference." Does not prevent "gun violence," but does significantly reduce it.
It is true that in UK only criminals have guns, but even most of them do not have guns, thus violent attacks are less likely to end in death.
I strongly support the 2nd Amendment, but I think it is dishonest to try to claim that there aren't highly unpleasant side effects to the 200M guns floating around America.
On I believe the same day as the Newtown shooting, a nut in China similarly attacked schoolchildren, except he didn't have a gun. So he used a knife.
23 people were injured, but there were no deaths. So far, anyway.
The problem here is that guns indeed do not kill people, but they make it so much easier and more efficient. Does anyone seriously contend Lanza would have been able to kill so many children armed with a knife? Or that the nut in China would not have been more deadly armed with a gun?
One of the costs of an armed populace, unfortunately, is that occasionally one of those armed citizens will go off the rails and do something like this.
This cost is vastly outweighed by the benefits of an armed people, but I think it is dishonest to claim the costs don't exist.
You are quite correct of course.
However, the media should not be blamed for giving the public what it wants.
When somebody does something like this, people not unreasonably want to know why, so the killer is made a celebrity while everyone who ever knew him is interviewed for possible insight.
If media outlet A chooses not to cover the story, they will lose viewers (and money) to media outlet B. So no outlet is going to do that.
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