They Never Learn

After a former employee came into the municipal building in Virginia Beach, VA, they want now to pass a special law banning guns in municipal buildings. They lament the fact that the city council can prevent city employees from bring guns into the buildings, and they want a law made to prevent the public from bringing them in, too. This assumes that a gunman wishing to kill a few people there will actually OBEY such a law This reflects the ignorance of lawmakers who think making a LAW against something will actually stop people from doing it. But a person who wants to commit a very serious crime such as murder or mass murder is not going to be concerned with obeying their silly anti-gun laws. They wish to pass this law in the face of the unalterable fact that if an employee, or even a citizen had been armed when that disgruntled former employee had come in and started shooting, they could have ENDED his shooting spree before he could have killed so many people. (The Virginian-Pilot)