Having said which

[dreamer_easy]

Also from the Denver Post:

"Talk to your kids," Aurora Mayor Steve Hogan said at a press conference Friday following the movie theater shootings in which a dozen people were killed and many more were injured. "Let them know this is an isolated incident. It's tragic, it's horrible, but it's isolated."

Isolated, my foot.

Texas Rep Gohmert's remarks - "with all those people in the theatre, was there nobody that was carrying?" - paint a frightening picture: an armed battle through a crowd of panicking civilians. I can understand the argument that ordinary citizens need to be armed in case their government turns against them. In my view, keeping the tools of mass murder readily available and largely unregulated saves the trouble of keeping citizens in fear of their government. When your neighbour might have an assault rifle that nobody knows about, you'll be quite scared enough of each other.

tbh, though, I suspect the motive for keeping police and military weaponry easily available to civilians is not politics, but profit. Unless and until that changes, perhaps the only hope will be for Colorado's public places to use metal detectors and searches to exclude civilians carrying assault rifles, semi-automatic pistols, shotguns, and tactical grenades.

(You should know that it's no use arguing with me about guns. I'm biased. In May 1982, an ex-employee went on a spree with a machine gun at my father's workplace in Maryland. Had dad not been elsewhere on business that day, he could easily have been one of those wounded or killed.)

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And in the very example he gives, he admits the concealed carry guy that shot at the gunman was killed.

****ing moron...