By the time you read this post, you'll know more about the latest shooting spree than I do as I write on Thursday evening, so I'm not going to get into the details. Besides, they're irrelevant to my point- I heard about it 3 hours ago, and I'm still horror struck.
I'm an ardent individualist and classical liberal, so I've always been something of a 2nd Amendment Absolutist.
But... I'd really like to know if there is any way we can screen out the people who are just one too many cups of espresso away from going on a rampage, or the people who grow and nurture hate the way others raise children, from the rest of the populace? There's a lot of hot headed, ignorant, and even evil people out there... and the idea that any one of them is entitled to have the means of exerting deadly force with the greatest of ease is most troubling.
I think its time for a Bloom County style "Dandelion Break" but since they're all under snow drifts, I'll have to settle for my puppies and my callipygous wife.
Full disclosure- these guns are not in the US, they were just the most impressive picture I could find at the Wikimedia Commons- my favorite source of royalty free photos and art.
From the description at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Gun_pyre_in_Uhuru_Gardens%2C_Nairobi.jpgPyre of smuggled weapons in Uhuru Gardens, Nairobi, Kenya. Original caption states, "A cache of more than 5,000 smuggled guns ready to be set ablaze at Uhuru gardens (peace grounds) during the peace support effort between the warring countries surrunding kenya and the communities leaving on the porous boarders of Kenya. This was in an effort to bring peace and end killings in the Northern part of Kenya."
