WHEN GUNS ARE OUTLAWED...

I’m a little confused. Since this last school shooting where a seventeen-year-old wing nut steals guns and enters a school and kills ten people, we have heard a never-ending chorus from gun control advocates. We need more laws to control guns. We need better background checks to keep guns out of the hands of nut cases. We need better laws governing the sale of ammunition. The screaming goes on and on ad infinitum.

Here is my confusion. Concerning just this last school shooting, it is already illegal to steal, guns or anything. It is already illegal to bring guns into a school. It is already illegal to kill people with guns or knives or any other way. Exactly what new law could one propose which would in any way stop what just happened?

Consider these facts. In this country we have more guns than people. In this country we have literally trillions of rounds of ammunition. I recently heard on the news that just in Jacksonville, Florida alone so far this year we have had fifty-six homicides. One wonders how many homicides occurred in the rest of the country so far this year. How about Chicago or Baltimore or Los Angeles? And guess what. Every single homicide was illegal. Every single shooting was illegal. Do you think these killers give a damn that they are breaking the law? Do you really believe that if any new law was passed these killers would suddenly get religion and turn in their weapons? If you would believe that, then I have some very attractive, recently filled in, swamp land to sell you. Another little tidbit. Not a single one of these killings was done by an NRA member. None of these killers had a conceal carry permit. It should not come as a great shock to you but, lawbreakers break laws. They don’t care what the laws are.

This has become a political football. The liberals blame the NRA. What total nonsense. I think what these gun control people really want is the repeal of the second amendment to the Constitution. I think that in their little minds they believe if there was such a repeal, all the guns in America would just suddenly disappear. Well, I have some sad news for these folks. If guns were truly outlawed, only outlaws would have guns. Is that so hard to understand? The only way to stop a gun is with a gun. Good guys with guns are the only insurance that bad guys with guns don’t control the streets.

Even with all we hear in the press, school shootings are really quite rare, but one is too many. A number of solutions are being considered to combat these killings. I have offered in the past one such solution. It is very simple and by far the least expensive answer to school shootings. Arm the teachers. Select a few willing teachers, preferably military veterans, train them in both gun usage as well as crowd control, heavily advertise that any shooter who appears in the school will die where he stands and see what happens. One of the primary reasons killers choose schools is that they know there will be no one shooting back. Killers like gun free zones. If you were a killer, wouldn’t you?

Several school districts are considering placing sworn police officers in the schools also and that will work but it is expensive. Some, of course, don’t want any of those scary guns in their schools. Well, I’m sorry but, school shootings are a reality of our times and we have to get a handle on the situation.

Guns are not going to be outlawed. The second amendment is not going to be repealed. America is armed and that is good. If some nutcase wants to go into a school and start shooting, then he should spend eternity right where he stands.

Ron Scarbro