Ann Coulter chimes in......
On target, as usual.....
http://www.anncoulter.com/cgi-local/welcome.cgi
LET'S MAKE AMERICA A 'SAD-FREE ZONE'!
April 18, 2007
From the attacks of 9/11 to Monday's school shooting, after every mass murder there is an overwhelming urge to "do something" to prevent a similar attack.
But since Adam ate the apple and let evil into the world, deranged individuals have existed.
Most of the time they can't be locked up until it's too late. It's not against the law to be crazy - in some jurisdictions it actually makes you more viable as a candidate for public office.
It's certainly not against the law to be an unsociable loner. If it were, Ralph Nader would be behind bars right now, where he belongs. Mass murder is often the first serious crime unbalanced individuals are caught committing - as appears to be in the case of the Virginia Tech shooter.
The best we can do is enact policies that will reduce the death toll when these acts of carnage occur, as they will in a free and open society of 300 million people, most of whom have cable TV.
Only one policy has ever been shown to deter mass murder: concealed-carry laws. In a comprehensive study of all public, multiple-shooting incidents in America between 1977 and 1999, the inestimable economists John Lott and Bill Landes found that concealed-carry laws were the only laws that had any beneficial effect.
And the effect was not insignificant. States that allowed citizens to carry concealed handguns reduced multiple-shooting attacks by 60 percent and reduced the death and injury from these attacks by nearly 80 percent.
Apparently, even crazy people prefer targets that can't shoot back. The reason schools are consistently popular targets for mass murderers is precisely because of all the idiotic "Gun-Free School Zone" laws.
From the people who brought you "zero tolerance," I present the Gun-Free Zone! Yippee! Problem solved! Bam! Bam! Everybody down! Hey, how did that deranged loner get a gun into this Gun-Free Zone?
It isn't the angst of adolescence. Plenty of school shootings have been committed by adults with absolutely no reason to be at the school, such as Laurie Dann, who shot up the Hubbard Woods Elementary School in Winnetka, Ill., in 1988; Patrick Purdy, who opened fire on children at Cleveland Elementary School in Stockton, Calif., in 1989; and Charles Carl Roberts, who murdered five schoolgirls at an Amish school in Lancaster County, Pa., last year.
Oh by the way, the other major "Gun-Free Zone" in America is the post office.
But instantly, on the day of the shooting at Virginia Tech, the media were already promoting gun control and pre-emptively denouncing right-wingers who point out that gun control enables murderers rather than stopping them.
Liberals get to lobby for gun control, but we're disallowed from arguing back. That's how good their arguments are. They're that good.
Needless to say, Virginia Tech is a Gun-Free School Zone - at least until last Monday. The gunman must not have known. Imagine his embarrassment! Perhaps there should be signs.
Virginia Tech even prohibits students with concealed-carry permits from carrying their guns on campus. Last year, the school disciplined a student for carrying a gun on campus, despite his lawful concealed-carry permit. If only someone like that had been in Norris Hall on Monday, this massacre could have been ended a lot sooner.
But last January, the Virginia General Assembly shot down a bill that would have prevented universities like Virginia Tech from giving sanctuary to mass murderers on college campuses in Virginia by disarming students with concealed-carry permits valid in the rest of the state.
Virginia Tech spokesman Larry Hincker praised the legislature for allowing the school to disarm lawful gun owners on the faculty and student body, thereby surrendering every college campus in the state to deranged mass murderers, saying: "I'm sure the university community is appreciative of the General Assembly's actions because this will help parents, students, faculty and visitors feel safe on our campus."
Others disagreed. Writing last year about another dangerous killer who had been loose on the Virginia Tech campus, graduate student Jonathan McGlumphy wrote: "Is it not obvious that all students, faculty and staff would have been safer if (concealed handgun permit) holders were not banned from carrying their weapons on campus?"
If it wasn't obvious then, it is now.
COPYRIGHT 2007 ANN COULTER
DISTRIBUTED BY UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATE
4520 Main Street, Kansas City, MO 64111
http://www.anncoulter.com/cgi-local/welcome.cgi
LET'S MAKE AMERICA A 'SAD-FREE ZONE'!
April 18, 2007
From the attacks of 9/11 to Monday's school shooting, after every mass murder there is an overwhelming urge to "do something" to prevent a similar attack.
But since Adam ate the apple and let evil into the world, deranged individuals have existed.
Most of the time they can't be locked up until it's too late. It's not against the law to be crazy - in some jurisdictions it actually makes you more viable as a candidate for public office.
It's certainly not against the law to be an unsociable loner. If it were, Ralph Nader would be behind bars right now, where he belongs. Mass murder is often the first serious crime unbalanced individuals are caught committing - as appears to be in the case of the Virginia Tech shooter.
The best we can do is enact policies that will reduce the death toll when these acts of carnage occur, as they will in a free and open society of 300 million people, most of whom have cable TV.
Only one policy has ever been shown to deter mass murder: concealed-carry laws. In a comprehensive study of all public, multiple-shooting incidents in America between 1977 and 1999, the inestimable economists John Lott and Bill Landes found that concealed-carry laws were the only laws that had any beneficial effect.
And the effect was not insignificant. States that allowed citizens to carry concealed handguns reduced multiple-shooting attacks by 60 percent and reduced the death and injury from these attacks by nearly 80 percent.
Apparently, even crazy people prefer targets that can't shoot back. The reason schools are consistently popular targets for mass murderers is precisely because of all the idiotic "Gun-Free School Zone" laws.
From the people who brought you "zero tolerance," I present the Gun-Free Zone! Yippee! Problem solved! Bam! Bam! Everybody down! Hey, how did that deranged loner get a gun into this Gun-Free Zone?
It isn't the angst of adolescence. Plenty of school shootings have been committed by adults with absolutely no reason to be at the school, such as Laurie Dann, who shot up the Hubbard Woods Elementary School in Winnetka, Ill., in 1988; Patrick Purdy, who opened fire on children at Cleveland Elementary School in Stockton, Calif., in 1989; and Charles Carl Roberts, who murdered five schoolgirls at an Amish school in Lancaster County, Pa., last year.
Oh by the way, the other major "Gun-Free Zone" in America is the post office.
But instantly, on the day of the shooting at Virginia Tech, the media were already promoting gun control and pre-emptively denouncing right-wingers who point out that gun control enables murderers rather than stopping them.
Liberals get to lobby for gun control, but we're disallowed from arguing back. That's how good their arguments are. They're that good.
Needless to say, Virginia Tech is a Gun-Free School Zone - at least until last Monday. The gunman must not have known. Imagine his embarrassment! Perhaps there should be signs.
Virginia Tech even prohibits students with concealed-carry permits from carrying their guns on campus. Last year, the school disciplined a student for carrying a gun on campus, despite his lawful concealed-carry permit. If only someone like that had been in Norris Hall on Monday, this massacre could have been ended a lot sooner.
But last January, the Virginia General Assembly shot down a bill that would have prevented universities like Virginia Tech from giving sanctuary to mass murderers on college campuses in Virginia by disarming students with concealed-carry permits valid in the rest of the state.
Virginia Tech spokesman Larry Hincker praised the legislature for allowing the school to disarm lawful gun owners on the faculty and student body, thereby surrendering every college campus in the state to deranged mass murderers, saying: "I'm sure the university community is appreciative of the General Assembly's actions because this will help parents, students, faculty and visitors feel safe on our campus."
Others disagreed. Writing last year about another dangerous killer who had been loose on the Virginia Tech campus, graduate student Jonathan McGlumphy wrote: "Is it not obvious that all students, faculty and staff would have been safer if (concealed handgun permit) holders were not banned from carrying their weapons on campus?"
If it wasn't obvious then, it is now.
COPYRIGHT 2007 ANN COULTER
DISTRIBUTED BY UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATE
4520 Main Street, Kansas City, MO 64111
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Ann is always right... 0 -
Right on target. I don't get why we can't give concealed carry a chance everywhere, across the country. It nearly is already anyway.
Why can't we give it a chance? We've already given doing nothing and 'creating gun free zones' a chance and that has proven to be failure.0 -
I have never been concerned about carrying concealed anywhere I go - New York City, D.C., San Francisco & LA, Detroit and Chicago, and many more. I keep a low profile, and don't take any action that would give LEOs a reason to search me.
I'm a law abiding man, but when obeying the law could cost the lives of my loved ones and me, it is no contest.
The only times I've been searched were before I started packing, when I was younger and stupid(er).
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The only question I have is WHERE IS THE ANGER?
After 9/11, we had airline pilots saying, and I'm paraphrasing here, that we will outnumber any scumbag that tries to hijack this plane. If we dog pile him all at once, he'll get a few, but not all.
One man - ONE MAN took down dozens, and no one tried to do anything. I read one article where a survivor, a college aged male, said that he saw his 75 year old professor try to barricade the door while he jumped out a window.
WHAT KIND OF MAN LETS A 75 YEAR OLD MAN BARRICADE A DOOR BY HIMSELF WHILE HE FLEES?! That boy should live the rest of his life in shame for having done nothing to prevent a 75 year old man's death.
If four men had tag teamed this gun-toting psycho, it would have been over. Yes, he would have gotten a few, but that 32? No.
Die fighting, people. That's all I have to say.0 -
Same here Doug, When I go to Illinois to visit my relatives, I always pack. My cousins think I'm crazy to breaking their law, but I'll be alive and crazy should I need it. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by Ba Sardo
WHAT KIND OF MAN LETS A 75 YEAR OLD MAN BARRICADE A DOOR BY HIMSELF WHILE HE FLEES?! That boy should live the rest of his life in shame for having done nothing to prevent a 75 year old man's death.
No one expects men to "act like men" anymore. There is no social stigma attached to fleeing.
The boy will not live in shame because, quite honestly, he probably doesn't realize he did anything wrong.0 -
Yep pi$$ down both legs and holler for Mama, but defend yourself with your hands? No way! Give the perp what he wants! Ain't that what people are taught now days? 0 -
Carefull bagging on men.Society has neutered them/us to the best of the fem's ability.I predict society will regret it.That 75 year old man thought the people (males included) were worth it.Honor his sacrifice by bringing your boys up to be men.The worlds most attractive 9 year old(My daughter) will appreciate it. 0 -
Doug, I agree with you. I carry whenever I feel like it is appropriate for me. My choice. 0 -
I'm sorry, but the sight of a 75 year old man trying to barricade a door alone should have sparked some sort of homicidal rage against the shooter. There is something wrong with people nowadays and the fact that it happened in Virgina (a state I do not consider neutered by any stretch of the imagination) just makes me sad, scared, and angry all at once. 0 -
Why didn't Ann Coulter rescue the students herself? She could have lassoed the gunman with her snake neck and scared him to death with her foul mouth. [xx(] 0 -
Horney Toad...you are a pissant.
You got nothing to say about her article that would do anything but reveal how stupid you are...and how anti-gun.0 -
quote:Originally posted by Horney toad
Why didn't Ann Coulter rescue the students herself? She could have lassoed the gunman with her snake neck and scared him to death with her foul mouth. [xx(]
Why didn't you? Too busy attacking women?[?]0 -
Anyone who is looking to Ann Coulter for wisdom is misguided. She's a rich white woman. What can she possibly know? 0 -
quote:Originally posted by Highball
Horney Toad...you are a pissant.
You got nothing to say about her article that would do anything but reveal how stupid you are...and how anti-gun.
Maybe I am a pissant. But I'm not anti-gun. I have about a dozen. I am just anti-wench. [V]0 -
quote:Originally posted by Horney toad
quote:Originally posted by Highball
Horney Toad...you are a pissant.
You got nothing to say about her article that would do anything but reveal how stupid you are...and how anti-gun.
Maybe I am a pissant. But I'm not anti-gun. I have about a dozen. I am just anti-wench. [V]
So you are gay then?0 -
quote:Originally posted by woodshermit
Anyone who is looking to Ann Coulter for wisdom is misguided. She's a rich white woman. What can she possibly know?
I don't think anyone said they were looking to her for wisdom...0 -
The point here is her ARTICLE...nor HER.
Please put your male supremacy aside for a moment and actually read and TRY to understand what she said.
Even the DEVIL will tell the truth now and again...the task of intelligent people is to point out WHERE...and WHEN the truth is being told.0 -
Idiot logic? Anyone not liking this foul wench is Gay? I prefer women that are ATTRACTIVE. That wench is nasty. [V] 0 -
quote:Originally posted by woodshermit
Anyone who is looking to Ann Coulter for wisdom is misguided. She's a rich white woman. What can she possibly know?
"Ann Coulter graduated with honors from Cornell University and received her J.D. from University of Michigan Law School, where she was an editor of The Michigan Law Review. She was an attorney in the Department of Justice Honors Program for outstanding law school graduates. She became a litigator with the Center For Individual Rights in Washington, DC, a public interest law firm dedicated to the defense of individual rights with particular emphasis on freedom of speech, civil rights, and the free exercise of religion."
I'd say she can possibly know a lot......0 -
Sounds like the bich has a good education. Too bad she couldn't put it to some good use. I guess she can make more money preaching hate every waking hour. [V] 0 -
Maybe the fact that she IS a rich white women should tell you that she does know a few things. She didn't get that way by being stupid, and has built a career on her ability to comment. You don't have to like her to be able to give her a bit of credit for having some ability, and vastly more than most of us here. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by dlrjj
Maybe the fact that she IS a rich white women should tell you that she does know a few things. She didn't get that way by being stupid, and has built a career on her ability to comment. You don't have to like her to be able to give her a bit of credit for having some ability, and vastly more than most of us here.
I am almost positive Coulter's family was rich, also Coulter has definite honesty issues.
Now you can say with all honesty that she was more ability than you but leave the rest of us out of it.0 -
Ann is so ugly if she had a rope around her neck, she's make the rope look bad! (Drum Roll) [:D] 0 -
Thank you Ann... Thank you... 0 -
quote:Originally posted by Horney toad
Idiot logic? Anyone not liking this foul wench is Gay? I prefer women that are ATTRACTIVE. That wench is nasty. [V]
You said you were anti-wench. It would follow that you like men.0 -
quote:Originally posted by Ba Sardo
The only question I have is WHERE IS THE ANGER?
After 9/11, we had airline pilots saying, and I'm paraphrasing here, that we will outnumber any scumbag that tries to hijack this plane. If we dog pile him all at once, he'll get a few, but not all.
One man - ONE MAN took down dozens, and no one tried to do anything. I read one article where a survivor, a college aged male, said that he saw his 75 year old professor try to barricade the door while he jumped out a window.
WHAT KIND OF MAN LETS A 75 YEAR OLD MAN BARRICADE A DOOR BY HIMSELF WHILE HE FLEES?! That boy should live the rest of his life in shame for having done nothing to prevent a 75 year old man's death.
If four men had tag teamed this gun-toting psycho, it would have been over. Yes, he would have gotten a few, but that 32? No.
Die fighting, people. That's all I have to say.
Maybe 32 people did fight back and 32 people died doing so. We may never know.0 -
Ann Coulter is about as attractive as a stump. 0 -
I'd bet that if Ann Coulter was in the classroom armed, and the perp came in there shooting, she'd put a bullet in his eye. I know I would have. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by woodshermit
Ann Coulter is about as attractive as a stump.
I don't know. What if it was a stump made from one of these trees.
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