Gun-Free Zones Or Killing Fields

With all the media coverage of the types of guns used and how the criminal obtained the gun, at some point the news media might begin to mention the one common feature of these attacks: They keep occurring in gun-free zones.

Gun-free zones are a magnet for these attacks.

John Lott tries to introduce rationality into the debate.

One thing you're forgetting, Doc: If we do things your way, how will we ensure that Gun-Free Zones remain Drilling Fields...?

[Via Chris Horton]

SD Right to Carry on Campus Updates

South Dakota Gun Owners has two Feb. 26 updates concerning the campus bill we've been discussing here, a synopsis, and their new strategy to shift focus to elections.

As my initial source for this story writes:

I was logging on to send another round of emails, but the SDGO is reporting that we're officially dead in the water as of today. I guess it's back to "don't ask, don't tell" for carry on campus. Too bad, I was going to start carrying a decent caliber. In the past I figured I had one "get out of jail free" in that I could claim ignorance (the LAW still say it's legal, it's just in violation of the regulations, as well as the higher law). That's going to be a harder sell now, since I've been fighting this. We've got a list of which politicians will stand w/ us and which won't...

I guess they need to make sure only "The Only Ones" are armed on campus so that all acts of armed terrorism against students and faculty will be official and approved.

We're the Only Ones Terrorizing the Campus Enough

In the exercise, an undercover police officer took a classroom hostage to test the university’s emergency communications system.

It happened in Room 236 of Moore Hall during a small American Foreign Policey [sic] class. For 12 minutes, students lined up against the wall, and one began praying. Many of them, including the professor, were unaware the ordeal was a drill.

Gee, sending out emails and text messages--just like at Virginia Tech. And don't you just love the idiot administrator Anthony Brown, explaining "Those are the kind of gambles you need to play in order to find out if the system will really work"?

And lest you wonder what the "system" is, don't take my word for it, take theirs:
















So everyone is disarmed except "The Only Ones," the only morons who would pull such a bone-headed stunt--authorized, naturally, by bone-headed administrators.

We told them we were going to have a drill, they protest. Just not what kind.

Yeah, I remember those--the fire alarm would go off, the teacher would explain it's a drill and we'd need to get up and walk out in an orderly manner to our designated spot in the parking lot for a head count.

Oh, but "had anyone compromised their safety, they would have called it off right away," we're assured.

So what happens when someone is put in a situation where they think they're going to die any second? Adrenalin shoots through the system, the heart starts pumping like a trip-hammer, breath speeds up, the entire system stresses--have these idiots never heard of heart attacks? What if the new mother had still been pregnant and the shock induced a miscarriage?

And what the hell was the point of the drill? That you can scare the hell out of unarmed people? Get them to do anything you say at gun point? How does that improve campus safety?

But I guess we did prove one thing: Campus cops, even though it took 12 minutes for them to get there, plenty of time for the entire room to have been wiped out, will not hesitate to burst into a classroom in force--when they know the gunman is one of their own and the weapon he's deploying is a fake.

How about we do a real drill, give the administrators a taste of their own medicine, see if they agree it helps "to test the security measures and make faculty and students feel safe." Because it wouldn't be "our intention to frighten or scare anyone."

Honest to God, when I first received this link, I thought it was a hoax. Nobody could be that stupid, not even people who work at it like college administrators and campus "Only Ones". But I do now see why they're so intent on keeping guns out of student and faculty hands. Because had that stupid sonofabitch burst in on an armed American who knows how to handle himself, there's a good chance the day would have ended in even more violence than the "Only Ones" initiated.

And it would have served the silly bastard right.

The only thing left to do now is to identify everyone who took place in this plot to commit assault, unlawful detention, terrorist activity, and whatever other charges can be filed, and get every one of the conspirators involved charged and prosecuted by the local DA and the feds--as you or I would deservedly be if we ever committed anything so bizarrely twisted, negligent, threatening and hazardous.

[Via HZ]

"When You're Slapped, You'll Take It and Like It"

It's not the job of the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms to "make it harder for people to get guns."

...Perhaps Cullen should take a refresher civics class. And while he's at it, he might also sign up for a course in civility.

Stephan Goldstein demonstrates what a bitchy little lightweight Boston Globe columnist Kevin Cullen truly is.

Remember what Sam Spade said to Joel Cairo in The Maltese Falcon?

[Via Ryan Horsley]

This Day in History: February 27

Stunned, outgunned and leaderless, the loyalists surrendered, retreating in confusion. Wagons, weapons and British sterling worth more than $1 million by today's value were seized by the patriots in the days following the battle.

Don't bring a broadsword to a musket fight...?