twats

Okay, I'm astounded at the gun supporters...how fucking stupid can one group of people be? There's the woman who was in the Luby's in Texas who maintains to this day (and yes, they had the stupid woman on TV here, of course, in the wake of yesterday's horrific massacre at Virginia Tech) that had she had her hand gun with her, her parents would still be alive. BULL-FUCKING-SHIT!!!! NO, you would have made a move, no matter how covert and secretive you thought you were being, and Hennard would have seen you--it was what he was trained to do, bitch--and you'd be dead, too. So now she's on saying that the gun laws are TOO strict*!! What THE fuck? Yes, she wants it legal to be able to carry guns into schools and hospitals now, too. Oh, yes, now that's a sterling idea!! Let's arm everyone where we want them to be the safest... This goes along with some twit who suggested that if professors were able to pack iron, this tragedy wouldn't have happened...

The pure, sheer, overwhelming stupidity of this kind of thinking just ASTOUNDS me. If teachers, profs, airline pilots, etc are armed...? Let's visit that scenario for a moment. Put guns in the hands of the profs yesterday, and, while we're at it, to appease the gunnuts, in the hands of say...a dozen students, too. What do we have, people? We have an open gun battle, with even more people getting killed.

Yes, while we're at it, why don't we just make the Cowboy Law of the West, everyone can pack iron and not be prosecuted for using your guns (they've passed that law in Texas now, too) since of course you had to be defending yourself.

People this kind of thinking is going BACKWARDS, by at least 100-150 years. Contrary to what you might think, an armed society is not a polite society...well, in a sense it is...after all, dead people can't be rude, now can they?

The other side of this lunacy is the fact that invariably, these idiots are the same people who preach Pro-Life .... I'm rendered speechless by the enormity of that hypocrasy.

The argument that guns don't kill people, people kill people doesn't hold water. Guns DO kill people. Cho wouldn't have been able to carry off what he did without a gun. With a knife, he probably could have killed whoever had pissed him off and himself...with a gun, it's limited to how much ammo he has and how fast the cops can get to him...which apparently isn't very fast. The Second Amendment, which allowed for a citizen militia NOT for every Tom, Dick, Harry, their brothers, and dogs to have guns, has outlived its purpose, by about 150 years.

Progressive legislation, intended to end the manufacture and sale of handguns, and destroy them when found, and allow for a life sentence with no parole for crimes committed with guns, is what is needed. NOT a house-to-house search and seizure, but sane, solid laws that progressively reduce the numbers of guns in the US. If Australia, that wide-open frontier, can do it, so can we. It won't guarantee that the kind of thing that happened yesterday won't happen again, but it will sure go a long way toward reducing the probability.

We need to outgrow our cowboy image with the rest of the world and stop being a laughing stock.


*corrected, I had too lax before :p