Silly Little Country

Illogic warning - shootings at Va Tech

We're about to head into another round of hand-wringing, demanding future stronger gun controls, because of the shootings today at Virginia Tech. I have never had my hand in my life on a gun, and fully recognize the dangers of there being one in the ready grasp of people, because of the possibility of them being used in a moment's anger.
But widespread carrying of guns would clearly inhibit events like this, as well as the favourite similar event that gets cited in Canada, Jean-Marc Lepine's murder of 14 women engineering students many years ago. Amazingly it gets dragged out each year as 'proof' that we need restrictions on carrying of guns. Had every student at that University been carrying a gun, Lepine is unlikely to have killed more than one or two of his targets; and the same is true today.
Again, I think there are arguments for gun control, but these events are most certainly not among them. My condolences to all the friends and loved ones of the innocents who lost their lives today.

Labels: gun control illogic hypocrisy

posted by Alan Adamson @ 5:53 PM