Why More Mass Shootings?

It’s almost like Columbine (mass shooting at Columbine High School) signaled the beginning of “the season of mass killings.” Since then there have been many mass shootings, all over the world, several right here in Colorado. The only one in Colorado that was stopped before a bunch of people were killed was in Colorado Springs, where there was ONE WOMAN who was (legally) armed and willing to use her gun and shot the shooter before he was able to murder more than two people. That tells me something: ONE PERSON with his/her own gun could STOP these killings. But don’t even try to tell the anti-gun freaks that. They’re “tone deaf” to reason. We’ve DISARMED ourselves as a means of self-defense. How STUPID!. Anti-gun freaks think laws against gun ownership and carrying will stop such shootings. I got news for them.

They won’t; wherever the anti-gun laws are the strongest, that’s where it’s the most easy to obtain ILLEGAL GUNS. Notice you never (usually) hear about a mass shooting done at a gun show or a police station. Why is that? Simple; would-be shooters know there are many guns there carried by people who know how to use them and aren’t afraid to use them. Most people aren’t stupid. They won’t “go on a shooting spree” just because they can own and carry the means of self-defense, a gun. But they WILL “spring into action” and shoot a would-be mass killer before he is able to kill more than one or two. That was PROVEN in Colorado Springs by a very small woman nobody would expect to be a heroine. The “anti-gun freaks” have a very low opinion of the intelligence and self-control of the average person they think they’ll go out and shoot people every chance they get. But that won’t happen.

Robert Heinlein said once, “an armed society is a polite society.” He tossed that one off as an aside in one of his books but it is a PROFOUND statement. Ignorant people ban guns. They might as well put up a sign that says, “Come on in and shoot us. No guns here!” When are the “Anti-gun fools” going to learn? Probably never, because their minds are closed to ANY suggestion that more guns in the hands of people who know how to use them and aren’t afraid to do so will STOP such mass shootings in their tracks. The would-be mass shooters will DIE before they can kill more than one or two with their either ILLEGAL or legally-obtained guns. I notice that many of these mass shooters got their guns legally, which reinforced my opinion that laws against gun ownership and carrying DO NOT WORK to keep guns out of the hands of such people. If they want to go out and kill, NO amount of anti-gun laws will stop them. They’ll get their guns SOME way, even if they have to STEAL them, as some of them have done. There is no such thing as the ABSENCE of guns in our society. They exist. You can’t get rid of them, physically.

Make all the laws you want, guns will still exist, and the “bad guys” will always be able to get their hands on one (or more). It’s like trying to put toothpaste back in the tube. The only solution is to allow honest, intelligent people to buy and carry the means to their own self-defense (and that of others), a gun. John Lott wrote a book with the title, “More Guns, Less Crime.” It was ridiculed by the anti-gun freaks, but it has proven to be very true. Wherever honest people can carry guns, violent crime has gone down, significantly (In Indianapolis a man held up a gun store and is now on a slab, full of lead). It’s time intelligent people overrode the efforts of the ignorant anti-gun freaks and let people take care of their own self-defense. The cops can’t do it, all they can do is write down the names of the dead and injured when they get there, usually AFTER the violence has been done. They did it in Florida, and many other states. And violent crime predictably went down. (Amazon)