What the hell ... Let's arm everybody!
The ‘More Guns’ Argument
By ANDREW ROSENTHAL, NYT
Of the many specious arguments against gun control, perhaps the most ridiculous is that what we really need is the opposite: more guns, in the hands of more people, in more places. If people were packing heat in the movies, at workplaces, in shopping malls and in schools, they could just pop up and shoot the assailant.
Larry Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners of America, which is like the National Rifle Association only nuttier, said the other day: "Gun control supporters have the blood of little children on their hands. Federal and state laws combined to insure that no teacher, no administrator, no adult had a gun at the Newtown school where the children were murdered."
Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the National Rifle Association, echoed that sentiment this morning. "The only thing that will stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun," he said.
I see it differently: About the only thing more terrifying than a lone gunman firing into a classroom or a crowded movie theater is a half a dozen more gunmen leaping around firing their pistols at the killer, which is to say really at each other and every bystander. It's a police officer's nightmare.
(More here.)
By ANDREW ROSENTHAL, NYT
Of the many specious arguments against gun control, perhaps the most ridiculous is that what we really need is the opposite: more guns, in the hands of more people, in more places. If people were packing heat in the movies, at workplaces, in shopping malls and in schools, they could just pop up and shoot the assailant.
Larry Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners of America, which is like the National Rifle Association only nuttier, said the other day: "Gun control supporters have the blood of little children on their hands. Federal and state laws combined to insure that no teacher, no administrator, no adult had a gun at the Newtown school where the children were murdered."
Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the National Rifle Association, echoed that sentiment this morning. "The only thing that will stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun," he said.
I see it differently: About the only thing more terrifying than a lone gunman firing into a classroom or a crowded movie theater is a half a dozen more gunmen leaping around firing their pistols at the killer, which is to say really at each other and every bystander. It's a police officer's nightmare.
(More here.)
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