re: #35 iceweasel

The wingnuts say the ‘solution’ to VA Tech is to allow guns on campus. John Derbyshire wrote a particularly vomitous screed about how the slaughter at VA Tech shows all those kids are ‘wimps’— presumably because they didn’t ‘take out’ the shooter with their bare hands before he gunned them down. (Only cowards get killed, heroes in Wingnuttia deflect all onslaughts with their bare chest, kinda like the Spartans in 300).

Confederate Wankee likewise advocated more guns in public places as a ‘soultion’. IIRC he claimed that a mall shooter a couple of years ago would have been ‘taken out’— if only more people in that crowded mall had guns on them, pulled them out and started shooting.

Fuck John Derbyshire. If one suddenly finds themselves in the midst of an armed ambush in a place we don’t expect there isn’t much people can do even if they’re armed themselves. Life isn’t a Rambo movie or any number of westerns were the good guy is the fastest gun in the west. Look at the police massacre that took place in Seattle last year. The officers were well armed and trained.