Guns Introduced to Higher Education

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Another dickless asshole has shot up a room full of helpless soft targets in a school, again. This time someone didn't get a valentine, and went on a rampage. I will not print that piece of shit's name out of respect to his victims. As I hope that someday ALL news media outlets will adapt.

For the people who are picking up their signs ready to rail against guns, it's emotion not facts that makes you feel that the gun, not the gunman is to blame. As a counter to your asinine plays on emotion, here are some facts that you need to get into your brain.

Gun Supply and Homicide Rate:

NO CORRELATION BETWEEN GUN SUPPLY AND HOMICIDE RATE IN THE UNITED STATES

And if you read it carefully, the numbers actually decline when there are more guns. Nutty.

How about concealed carry? Here's the newest letter Nevermind:

I see in the news going to school is hazardous to your health now in IL. I read a headline that said, "we didn't know what to do." Well, it is a tragedy, but what they should do is rethink gun legislation in IL. I'm talking about concealed carry. I'm talking about concealed carry on campuses. Had it been allowed (and if I were a student), I would have been happy to dispatch this coward with well placed shots in center mass of his chest and head. He would have likely still killed innocents, but at least they would have had a fighting chance with a legally armed citizen on their side. When is the US going to learn that guns in the hands of the right people do save lives. I would have happily blasted that scumbag in Nebraska, those two shits in Colorado, and all the other countless shitheads that need more love and hugs in their lives. Knowing Illinois and public opinion, they'll spin this to punish the law-abiding, not the nut jobs that shouldn't have firearms in the first place.

Why can't these people just kill themselves by themselves and not take anyone else with them? What's the point? At least maybe God would forgive your own suicide, but I don't think you'll be forgiven for killing innocents, then yourself. Yikes. Just yikes. Good luck gents. If you go to any public places, be watching for things that don't fit. Look for the people in the crowd that don't fit, like a guy with a big overcoat on a hot day. Watch your backs. Know your exits. Check your corners, and always know how to arm yourselves to fight and win. If you're in the home, have that 12 gauge with 00 buck ready. Get a .357 and teach your wives how to shoot. Get a Surefire flashlight and change the batteries regularly. Have a minimum of 50 rounds for each weapon. And most important, do not be a victim. Assume you'll have to fight for your life. If you do, you'll be ready.

Interesting, but you say "what good is introducing another gun to the problem, you'll just end up with more bodies, right?"

Here are more of those pesky "facts" to back up Nevermind's "insane" position.

Major crime fell dramatically in states which have legalized the carrying of concealed handguns, according to a comprehensive new study at the University of Chicago.

For the first time, researchers analyzed crime statistics for all 3,054 counties in the United Sates between 1977 and 1992, according to one of the authors of the unpublished study, Professor John Lott. After adjusting for a general fall in crime rates, the study found that:

* In the 31 states that now have "concealed right to carry" laws, murders were down, on average, by 8.5 percent.

* Rapes were down 5 percent and serious assaults by 7 percent.

* In cities with populations of more than 250,000, murder rates dropped after the passage of such laws by an average of 13.5 percent.

According to the study, the fall in crime did not result from an increased use of guns, but from potential criminals avoiding confrontations. In fact, criminals apparently shifted to lower-risk offenses, since property crimes increased in those states. Other findings included:

* The most dramatic falls in murder rates were in areas where the number of women carrying firearms was high.

* The study found that for every woman who carries a concealed hand, the murder rate fell by three to four times more than it would have if one more man had carried a concealed gun.

* If states with concealed handgun bans had allowed them in 1992, about 1,570 murders, 4,177 rapes and more than 60,000 aggravated assaults would have been avoided.

In addition, the researchers found no evidence of an increase in accidental killings or suicides in states with concealed carry laws.

Sources: Ian Katz, "'Gun Law' Cuts Crime Rate, US Study Finds," Guardian, August 3, 1996, and Dennis Cauchon, "Study: Weapons Laws Deter Crime: Fewer Rapes, Murders Found Where Concealed Guns Legal," USA Today, August 2, 1996.

Yeah, but!

But you've never heard of a mass murder in a school with a knife? Right?

The Osaka School Massacre took place on June 8, 2001, at Ikeda Elementary School, an elite primary school affiliated with Osaka Kyoiku University in Osaka Prefecture, Japan.

At 10:15 that morning, 37-year-old former janitor Mamoru Takuma entered the school armed with a kitchen knife and began stabbing numerous school children and teachers. He killed eight children, mostly between the ages of seven and eight, and seriously wounded thirteen other children and two teachers. Takuma was later convicted and sentenced to death by hanging.

I'm going to have to repeat myself here. If you're going to blow your head off, fine. Be my guest. Just be a man about it and blow YOUR head off - don't run around shooting other people, or stabbing kids, or detonating yourself in a crowded café, or ramming your car into them at an intersection (Blasphemes "No Justice"). Just kill yourself. Okay? Can we all come to an agreement on that?

Perhaps we should punish the relatives of assholes who kill others? Maybe that'll put a stop to it? Before we talk about taking away the guns, maybe we should turn off all those cameras that give this sort of tragedy wall-to-wall coverage on the news, further glamorizing it? I mean, isn't Britney doing anything right now? Can we check? Quickly before some teenager who was shot down by the head cheerleader decides to get revenge by shooting up the school.