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Posted: 4/18/2007 2:34:49 PM EST
http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55277

From the attacks of 9-11 to Monday's school shooting, after every mass murder there is an overwhelming urge to "do something" to prevent a similar attack.

But since Adam ate the apple and let evil into the world, deranged individuals have existed.

Most of the time they can't be locked up until it's too late. It's not against the law to be crazy – in some jurisdictions it actually makes you more viable as a candidate for public office.

It's certainly not against the law to be an unsociable loner. If it were, Ralph Nader would be behind bars right now, where he belongs. Mass murder is often the first serious crime unbalanced individuals are caught committing – as appears to be in the case of the Virginia Tech shooting.

The best we can do is enact policies that will reduce the death toll when these acts of carnage occur, as they will in a free and open society of 300 million people, most of whom have cable TV.

Only one policy has ever been shown to deter mass murder: concealed-carry laws. In a comprehensive study of all public, multiple-shooting incidents in America between 1977 and 1999, the inestimable economists John Lott and Bill Landes found that concealed-carry laws were the only laws that had any beneficial effect.

And the effect was not insignificant. States that allowed citizens to carry concealed handguns reduced multiple-shooting attacks by 60 percent and reduced the death and injury from these attacks by nearly 80 percent.

Apparently, even crazy people prefer targets that can't shoot back. The reason schools are consistently popular targets for mass murderers is precisely because of all the idiotic "Gun-Free School Zone" laws.

From the people who brought you "zero tolerance," I present the Gun-Free Zone! Yippee! Problem solved! Bam! Bam! Everybody down! Hey, how did that deranged loner get a gun into this Gun-Free Zone?

It isn't the angst of adolescence. Plenty of school shootings have been committed by adults with absolutely no reason to be at the school, such as Laurie Dann, who shot up the Hubbard Woods Elementary School in Winnetka, Ill., in 1988; Patrick Purdy, who opened fire on children at Cleveland Elementary School in Stockton, Calif., in 1989; and Charles Carl Roberts, who murdered five schoolgirls at an Amish school in Lancaster County, Pa., last year.

Oh, by the way, the other major "Gun-Free Zone" in America is the post office.

But instantly, on the day of the shooting at Virginia Tech, the media were already promoting gun control and pre-emptively denouncing right-wingers who point out that gun control enables murderers rather than stopping them. Liberals get to lobby for gun control, but we're disallowed from arguing back. That's how good their arguments are. They're that good.

Needless to say, Virginia Tech is a Gun-Free School Zone – at least until last Monday. The gunman must not have known. Imagine his embarrassment! Perhaps there should be signs.

Virginia Tech even prohibits students with concealed-carry permits from carrying their guns on campus. Last year, the school disciplined a student for carrying a gun on campus, despite his lawful concealed-carry permit. If only someone like that had been in Norris Hall on Monday, this massacre could have been ended a lot sooner.

But last January, the Virginia General Assembly shot down a bill that would have prevented universities like Virginia Tech from giving sanctuary to mass murderers on college campuses in Virginia by disarming students with concealed-carry permits valid in the rest of the state.

Virginia Tech spokesman Larry Hincker praised the legislature for allowing the school to disarm lawful gun owners on the faculty and student body, thereby surrendering every college campus in the state to deranged mass murderers, saying: "I'm sure the university community is appreciative of the General Assembly's actions because this will help parents, students, faculty and visitors feel safe on our campus."

Others disagreed. Writing last year about another dangerous killer who had been loose on the Virginia Tech campus, graduate student Jonathan McGlumphy wrote: "Is it not obvious that all students, faculty and staff would have been safer if (concealed handgun permit) holders were not banned from carrying their weapons on campus?"

If it wasn't obvious then, it is now.
Link Posted: 4/18/2007 2:35:59 PM EST
[#1]
For once I completely agree with the cryptkeeper's daughter!

Link Posted: 4/18/2007 2:42:41 PM EST
[#2]
Unless there is a metal detector to pass through, screw the rules.
Link Posted: 4/18/2007 2:42:42 PM EST
[#3]

Quoted:
For once I completely agree with the cryptkeeper's daughter!



Ditto. I can't help but bemoan the fact the author of this wonderful little piece is Ann Coulter. Maybe I should forward it without mentioning the name of the author?

Link Posted: 4/18/2007 2:43:09 PM EST
[#4]

Quoted:
For once I completely agree with the cryptkeeper's daughter!



And I completely agree with your complete agreement!
Link Posted: 4/18/2007 2:47:37 PM EST
[#5]
She has had a couple of good days in a row. She has turned a new leaf, I think!
Link Posted: 4/18/2007 2:50:05 PM EST
[#6]
I agree with her too.....and I'd hit it.
Link Posted: 4/18/2007 2:52:38 PM EST
[#7]

For once I completely agree with the cryptkeeper's daughter!


You commie bastages!

Ann Coulter is hot!
Link Posted: 4/18/2007 2:53:56 PM EST
[#8]
Nice.
Link Posted: 4/18/2007 2:54:58 PM EST
[#9]
If you were born on the Isle of Man in England does that make you 'manish'??
Link Posted: 4/18/2007 2:56:08 PM EST
[#10]

Quoted:
For once I completely agree with the cryptkeeper's daughter!



I agree with her...manhands and everything.
Link Posted: 4/18/2007 3:00:00 PM EST
[#11]
I love Ann!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HH
Link Posted: 4/18/2007 3:05:25 PM EST
[#12]
It certainly is odd that all the incidents of mass killings have occurred in gun free zones.
Link Posted: 4/18/2007 4:34:53 PM EST
[#13]

Quoted:

For once I completely agree with the cryptkeeper's daughter!


You commie bastages!

Ann Coulter is a man!



I agree with her here...


Nicely put with the "Gun-Free Zones."
Link Posted: 4/18/2007 5:12:08 PM EST
[#14]

Quoted:
It certainly is odd that all the incidents of mass killings have occurred in gun free zones.


Just the successful ones...
Link Posted: 4/18/2007 5:21:41 PM EST
[#15]
heh, much as I hate to admit it, she's right on this one... too bad she's stuck her foot in her mouth too many times to be taken seriously.
Link Posted: 4/18/2007 5:24:22 PM EST
[#16]
Well said.
Link Posted: 4/18/2007 5:29:27 PM EST
[#17]
retard....drumset
Link Posted: 4/18/2007 5:34:14 PM EST
[#18]
Ann rocks...as always.
Link Posted: 4/18/2007 5:35:53 PM EST
[#19]
Hurricane .... Screen door

Retard ..... drum set


Ann is awesome.

Link Posted: 4/18/2007 5:38:30 PM EST
[#20]
Funny, I just submitted my thoughts on an MSNBC poll about the 'gun free zone' BS very similar to this.  Maybe I need to call shenanigans?

Maybe it is just great minds think alike.  h,
I could hold her book with one hand for a looong time  
Link Posted: 4/18/2007 5:38:54 PM EST
[#21]
Another well written piece.

BigDozer66
Link Posted: 4/18/2007 5:39:54 PM EST
[#22]
"Needless to say, Virginia Tech is a Gun-Free School Zone – at least until last Monday. The gunman must not have known. Imagine his embarrassment! Perhaps there should be signs."

Link Posted: 4/18/2007 5:40:11 PM EST
[#23]

Quoted:

Quoted:
For once I completely agree with the cryptkeeper's daughter!



I agree with her...manhands and everything.


She did good with this article.

BTW. I would only hit it out of the way.
Link Posted: 4/18/2007 5:40:38 PM EST
[#24]
I didn't think the day would come when I would agree with something that psycho bitch said. lol
Link Posted: 4/18/2007 5:41:52 PM EST
[#25]

Quoted:
Unless there is a metal detector to pass through, screw the rules.


Damn right!
Link Posted: 4/18/2007 5:41:56 PM EST
[#26]

Quoted:
"Needless to say, Virginia Tech is a Gun-Free School Zone – at least until last Monday. The gunman must not have known. Imagine his embarrassment! Perhaps there should be signs."



Thats sig line material if I ever saw one.
Link Posted: 4/18/2007 5:44:13 PM EST
[#27]

Quoted:
For once I completely agree with the cryptkeeper's daughter!




- I needed to laugh today.
Link Posted: 4/18/2007 5:53:56 PM EST
[#28]
Good read.  Sent it out to some friends.
Link Posted: 4/18/2007 6:26:00 PM EST
[#29]
Damn, I can be surprised! Ann was right on the money with this one!!

Link Posted: 4/19/2007 4:39:35 AM EST
[#30]
I am sure the people who really know everything (The View) will be dogging AC soon.

BigDozer66
Link Posted: 4/19/2007 4:41:31 AM EST
[#31]

Quoted:
Unless there is a metal detector to pass through, screw the rules.


Isn't that what Glocks are for?
Link Posted: 4/20/2007 5:06:45 AM EST
[#32]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Unless there is a metal detector to pass through, screw the rules.


Isn't that what Glocks are for?


The X-Ray machines won't even pick them up!

BigDozer66
Link Posted: 4/20/2007 5:17:29 AM EST
[#33]
Must be a Glock 7
Link Posted: 4/20/2007 6:01:39 AM EST
[#34]
As far as AC goes, Ill have to say she said what needed saying.

as for "Hitting it", I wouldnt,  even with your d**k!

Morcoth
Link Posted: 4/20/2007 6:07:13 AM EST
[#35]
I received this yesterday and figured it was already a dupe. Very good read. BTW, I'D HIT IT!
Link Posted: 4/20/2007 7:38:17 AM EST
[#36]

Quoted:
Ann rocks...as always.



+1
Link Posted: 4/20/2007 8:49:06 AM EST
[#37]

Quoted:
For once I completely agree with the cryptkeeper's daughter!



No, no, that would be Alan Colmes :






Link Posted: 4/20/2007 8:54:01 AM EST
[#38]
Great article.

As for Ann herself, she's incredibly better looking than Pudlosi.

Although, everytime I have ever tried to imagine Ann Coulter in some sexual way, for some reason I get this image of her feet stinking. I don't know why.
Link Posted: 4/20/2007 9:23:37 AM EST
[#39]
  Good article
My opinion of Ann just moved up a notch
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