Making Light: Dealing with guns
Really good points, especially the ones made by Old Jarhead. Guns are tools and having one doesn’t necessarily mean one is protected and/or safe.
It started making the rounds by Tuesday morning (I’m being generous and assuming that some people had the decency to not say anything re: guns until Tuesday), that perhaps allowing students and instructors/professors to carry weapons on campus and other comments re: gun control (tightening laws, etc.)
Um no. This is not the Wild West. We are supposed to be civilized, not hooligans brandishing weapons. The gunman at Virginia Tech bought his weaponry legally. He followed the law in buying his guns (for all anybody knew, he could have wanted to learn how to shoot.)
Of course the enlightened legislators in Nashville want to allow handguns onto public property except schools. I think that’s stupid too.
What’s even more idiotic that 33 people are dead because somebody couldn’t get the help he needed.
