When you take away guns, only outlaws will have guns.

I was talking with someone from New Jersey this week. He mentioned that he'd recently been to my state a few years ago. He said that during his visit, he'd had to go into a public school for some reason. He was struck by the (as he described it) huge decals on the door depicting a handgun with a big red circle and a slash  overlaid.

Our state has a law allowing [law-abiding] citizens to carry concealed handguns. In our state, we officially know those signs as "no guns allowed in here" signs.

The Jersey guy was NOT very impressed with our state for having to put such a sign on a public school and all but ridiculed our state as being something right out of the wild west. I told him I'm not very damned impressed that our culture has so flushed the social contract down the toilet that we even feel the need to be armed in public. And, I mentioned that in our state, we scoff at those signs and such legal restrictions and we know them unofficially as "lots of captive and unarmed victims-to-be in here" signs.

Today's headlines read; "2 dead, including student gunman, in shooting at Wash. state high school."*

This latest incident of senseless violence just goes to prove the axiom that the power of the gun is absolute...when it's used against someone without one. Need I say more?

 

*Unk. (24 Oct, 2014) FoxNews.com, 2 dead, including student gunman, in shooting at Wash. state high school, retrieved 24 October, 2014 from http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/10/24/police-respond-to-shooting-at-washington-state-high-school/