In a tragic incident, three innocents at the University of Alabama were murdered and several injured at the hands of a professor who was denied tenure at a faculty meeting. No down the gun nuts are going to jump on this as an opportunity to outlaw guns on campus -- after all, if there were more stringent gun restrictions on campus, three people would not have been murdered, right?
Wrong.
Read through the events carefully. One loan shooter murdered three and injured three more; of the dozen faculty members present, exactly one was armed -- the murderer.
Question -- is it possible that she would have been less likely to commit these acts if she knew that the other faculty in the room were armed and would shoot back?
Question -- is it possible that another armed faculty member could have stopped the shooter and prevented one or more (or all) of the murders and injuries from taking place?
Question -- given that the gun was not registered and that the shooter had no carry permit, the murderer already broke the law. Are the gun nuts really foolish enough to think that adding another restriction on firearms would have prevented this murderer from illegally carrying a gun?
Or would making another anti-gun law simply ensure that no one will be armed to defend the innocent next time either?
