Gun Ban

I was just listening to the radio when the DJ was interviewing Ann Compton from ABC News about the shootings yesterday at Va Tech.

Here were her thoughts "Well Jim, I went to school in the area and it's a big gun ownership population. The people here didn't like the gun ban instituted by the school years ago".

First off, it's a good things the school put that ban in place, otherwise, someone might think it was OK to just walk through campus and randomly shoot students and staff.

Second, Maybe some of those yee haa hillbillies that love their guns understand that attacks get even quick when you're lock and loaded.

I hate to pile on when a tragedy like this occurs but really, has anyone studied the profiles of these guys. Has anyone noticed that these armed attacks are not occurring at rifle ranges, a police station, a biker bar.... they're committed by cowards who definitively know the victims are unarmed.

After a couple of criminals in Cincinnati were shot and killed in robbing convenience stores, convenience store robberies went down but what has skyrocketed in it's place.... bank robberies. Maybe ... it's because robbers play the cost benefit principle and they know that bank employees are unarmed as a matter of policy.

When it's all said and done, this person will be found to be mentally stressed or had some sort of a breakdown but even the early reports show that this guy walked around the campus with absolute impunity. Maybe if a student or staff member had a concealed carry fire arm they could have shut this guy down before 32 lives were lost.