“One absurd argument some gun extremists already are making is that, instead of tightening gun laws, we should go in the other direction and start packing heat. That way, you see, we can mow down the bad guy before he gets us.”

Killers such as these carry out their evil in venues in which there is a high degree of certainty that they are the only ones carrying a firearm. I can’t begin to know what was going through the mind of the killer in Newtown but one thing I’m 99.99999% sure of is that he entered that school because he knew that no one inside was armed.

The value of allowing trained, responsible citizens to carry weapons (or not, at their option) is not to turn public places into the OK Corral but to prevent violence. You don’t have to have all of the teachers, or half of them, or even one, carrying a gun. You just have to make those who would do harm believe that one of them might. That can be accomplished even if no one actually has a weapon.

Besides – the Sequestration doesn’t actually cut spending. It just decreases the increase in spending. This whole “crisis” is so unserious – it’s like freaking out about the paint job as your house burns to the ground, and finally getting both sides to whip out paint brushes together.

I love the new digs! Best righty blog in Nevada right now.