Thursday, December 06, 2007

When Seconds Count, Police Are Only Minutes Away

There was another mass shooting Wednesday. Nine people dead. The police took SIX MINUTES to get to that mall. And once they got there, what did they do? They did police stuff. Instead of going in with guns blazing, they set up a cordon. They escorted people out of the mall. They spent FIVE HOURS futzing around. And now the gun grabbers will be out in force. The loathsome Brady Campaign will use this as another fund-raising event. The liberal politicians will be demanding that the government take away our human rights to self-defense. That world renowned psychologist, Bill Clinton, once said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results (he didn't even credit Ben Franklin for the quote). Every time there is gun violence, the liberals do the same thing -- pass more gun control -- despite the fact that there is no evidence gun laws have ever prevented a single murder. Nebraska is one of those rare states that has complete state preemption of firearms laws. But, several localities have passed and are enforcing laws that are illegal under the preemption statute. Typical of liberals. If you don't like the law, ignore it. I was in an up-scale mall today. When a mall is called a galleria, you know it's upscale. I had my Springfield XD-9 semi-automatic handgun under my black, leather Corvette jacket. Had something like that happened while I was there, while defenseless people were running away from the shots, I would have been running toward them. No drive-time to get to the mall, no setting up cordons, no escorting people out of the mall. I would have shot the offender, or he would have shot himself if I had challenged him (I'm not considering the third option). One way or another, I would have stopped him. And the liberals would still do the same thing -- and expect different results.

6 comments:

DAKOTARANGER said...

One of the things that bug me about this deal is he wanted attention. I get that this is newsworthy, but I wonder if there is a diservous done to the American people by making this a national news story possibly breeding copycats.

There is no reason that this monster should have killed eight people. Any sympathy I may have had for his suffering that was hurting died when he shot the first person.

HokiePundit said...

I can't say for sure that I'd act the same way as you describe in a similar situation, but I hope that I would if appropriate.

I'm apparently also not the only person who had that quote come to mind when reading that story...

Anonymous said...

Gun Grabber: Why do you carry concealed?

Me: Because I am best suited to defend my family and myself.

Gun Grabber: But the police are highly trained professionals.

Me: Agreed, but I'm always with myself and they aren't.

Anonymous said...

Wanna come patrol our "galleria?" :)

Anonymous said...

I believe Canada has some agreement that, in these types of case, the "name, image and likeness" of the shooter is not broadcast by the media. Go interview his family and his second grade teacher; be as mournful as you want about his past. But, his name is dead to history when the story gets reported. Maybe this is an idea that bears some discussion here in the USA.

Lone Ranger said...

Canada is what America will be if we lose the culture war to liberals. the recent shootings in Colorado proved my point -- AGAIN. The MINUTE this crazy was confronted by someone with a gun, he was stopped dead in his tracks -- literally. He committed suicide on the spot. And the hero was a WOMAN. Guns save far more lives than they take.