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« Clayton Cramer & SF Chronicle on inner cities and crime | Main | There are worse things than being robbed at gunpoint »

Good Op-Ed

Posted by David Hardy · 14 December 2007 12:35 PM

In the Portland (ME) Press Herald:

"Has anyone ever wondered why people with guns who have kissed sanity good-bye never take out their uncontrollable rage on the nearest police station?

Nor do they drive off to the nearest Army base, shooting range or hunting club to vent their murderous frustration.

It should only take a moment's thought to understand why: Those places have people who have relatively easy access to weapons themselves.

It's one thing to be homicidal and suicidal, but it's quite another to consider that one's murderous intent could be brought to an untimely halt through the immediate application of superior firepower.

However, there are places that draw these people like magnets, and they, too, are easy to locate: They are the places where the possession of firearms is forbidden, and that fact is widely advertised.

Some of these places even go so far as to publicly display their vulnerability to mass murder through the posting of signs that say "No Guns Permitted" or "Gun-Free Zone.""

3 Comments | Leave a comment

Robin | December 14, 2007 1:36 PM | Reply

It is a good editorial, but his first statement is not exactly true. Nutjobs do sometimes go to police stations to take out their rage. They just don't become mass killers in the process. See http://www.officer.com/web/online/Top-News-Stories/Detective--Suspect-Killed-in-Virginia-Police-Station-Attack/1$30306

Chris | December 14, 2007 5:13 PM | Reply

This raises another interesting question; if someone is going to commit suicide anyway, why do they prolong the experience by shooting up the firearms free - free fire zones? Some thought must have gone into the selection of location, right?

Tarn Helm | December 14, 2007 7:10 PM | Reply

Excellent piece!

I visit several pro-Second Amendment websites per day, and I send this stuff off to everyone I know just to keep them up to speed on public opinion on this subject throughout the country.

It is important for us all to stay tuned in to as many states as possible--and to pass the good word whenever it gets spoken (or written!).

Thanks, Dave.

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