Aurora

The tragedy of Aurora, CO, was not that the bad guy had a gun, because the bad guy will always manage to have a gun. The tragedy was that he was the only one who had a gun.  Gun control fantasists like Michael Bloomberg would have a society where the bad guy would always be the only one with a gun.  Bloomberg has his own armed guards, of course, which nicely marks the point at which rational thought finally rears its head -- or, said another way, the point at which fantasy is overruled by hypocrisy.

It's an absurdity to believe that someone who is willing to break the laws prohibiting murder would let gun control laws stop him from having a gun.  No serious person believes that the U.S. will ever adopt gun control laws as strict as those in Norway, which has among the world's most restrictive legal regimes when it comes to gun ownership.  Yet, last July, a man shot 77 people to death in a mass killing in Norway because no good man with a gun was there to stop him.

Gun control is a fraudulent issue erected on the fantasy that bad guys can be prevented from having a gun.  There is a valid issue, though, concerning gun-free zones, legislated or otherwise, where bad guys are undeterred in the use of their guns, where they feel free to use them.  The logic of the gun-free zone idea is beyond my comprehension, unless it's rooted in a death wish.  The Aurora shooter, however, was not suicidal -- he dropped his weapons when good men with guns arrived on the scene.  Ditto the shooter in Norway.  It seems to me that both killers, in that respect, showed far more rationality than the concept of a gun-free zone represents.

Byron