We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/other_opeds_on.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:41:04 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Opinion-Journal ...In any case, there is no connection between recent mass murder events and gun restrictions. As Quebec economist Pierre Lemieux noted yesterday, "Mass killings were rare when guns were easily available, while they have been increasing as guns have become more controlled." The 1996 murders in the Scottish town of Dunblane--17 killed--occurred despite far more restrictive gun laws than America's. Glenn Reynolds, writing in the New York Daily News. ...Wiles reported that when he told a professor how he felt, the professor responded that she would have felt safer if he had had a gun, too. What's more, she... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/other_opeds_on.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/other_opeds_on.html Wed, 18 Apr 2007 10:26:07 -0600 There is also this: How can there be balance with the Brady Bunch marching lock step with the anti gun crowd? These people have been nattering for years that if we just ban guns or regulate them to death everyone will be safer. Time and again, that has NOT been proven to be the case. So now we ratchet up the pressure to totally show we are non violent, and have to trust that no one else with an issue won't do this again? After all, we don't have guns so we are harmless. That in and of itself implies a trust...one that was abused horribly. And we are supposed to trust blind and foolish people to say that gun violence begets gun violence? If I recall, the only weapons that day were being used by the shooter. They were not acting on their own. When was it going to end? When he got taken out or ran out of ammunition. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/other_opeds_on.html#comment-59156 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/other_opeds_on.html#comment-59156 Thu, 19 Apr 2007 00:25:48 -0600 Ken Hammond who confronted the shooter, and eventually (with a uniformed policeman) cornered and killed him.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/other_opeds_on.html#comment-59141 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/other_opeds_on.html#comment-59141 Wed, 18 Apr 2007 17:50:51 -0600