“You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.” –Bob Dylan, Subterranean Homesick Blues. So the Bonnie and Clyde of the great Bundy ranch standoff thought they could start a national uprising by murdering two cops in a Las Vegas pizza joint. After executing Officers Alyn Beck and Igor Soldo in the…
bad guys with guns, to use the language of wayne lapierre. all of them with guns. all of them dead. las vegas police officers were ambushed while they were eating their lunch, and a civilian was at walmart to return a modem and who pulled out the handgun for which he had a concealed weapons permit in a laudatory attempt to stop the one gunman he could see, joseph robert wilcox was cut down by that gunman s accomplice before he could fire a shot. now, this map shows the average number of firearms per 100 people around the world. and there s one country that jumps out there, the darkest country, the one with 70 to 100 fire arms for every 100 people. that s the one awash in guns. the idea that it just take as good guy with a gun to stop the bad guys, that more guns in the right hands means less deaths, that s destroyed by this map because no other developed country has as many guns as we do, and no other developed country has as many gun deaths. and that is not a coincidence.
one student had been killed as well as the shooter. anxious parents rushed to the school to reunite with their sons and daughters. just want to hold her. just want to hold her tight. and get her home. just another day in a country which has now seen 74 shootings at school since the attack at sandy hook elementary school in newtown, connecticut, in december 2012. that number according to the gun safety organization everytown.org. 74. as this sort of horrific gun violence has become almost routine in america, pro-gun forces have regularly argued the only way to stop it is with more guns. this was fox news this afternoon, barely hours after the shooting stopped in oregon. as a parent, wouldn t you perhaps feel more secure if you knew there was somebody there, armed security, to manage and handle a situation like this? arming one or more people at these schools makes sense. that is the standard response now, ever since that deranged press conference in response to the n