- UPDATE 2/19/08 - Dennis Prager has 5 brilliant points to make about the murders that took place on the NIU campus. Click here for insightful observations.
- Re: the Northern Illinois University massacre (also here and here), we can no longer tolerate "gun free zones," i.e. areas reserved for killers to shoot their victims at random and at leisure. My sentiments are with this writer:
At one time I was very against arming teachers or allowing qualified students to carry on campus. I’m not any more. These maniacs go to those schools KNOWING that their’s will be the only gun there - until police arrive. And that can take minutes.
If you know anything about guns, or ever fire on a range, take any semi-automatic pistol with, say, two extra loaded magazines, and see how long it will take you to fire every
single round in those magazines. It doesn’t take but a few seconds. Then imagine firing into a crowded room filled with unarmed people.
Like shooting fish in a barrel.
This one, like some others before him, even stopped to reload. One gun. That’s all it would have taken. But that campus, like all the others, is a “gun free zone”
To everyone except the killer
(HT: Drudge)