Madeleine Morgenstern @ The Blaze:
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) on Sunday said he wished the principal of Sandy Hook Elementary had been armed so she could have protected the school when a gunman burst in and started spraying bullets.
“I wish to God she had had an M4 in her office locked up so when she heard gunfire she pulls it out and she didn’t have to lunge heroically with nothing in her hands, when she takes him out, takes his head off before he can kill those precious kids,” Gohmert said on “Fox News Sunday.”
The principal, Dawn Hochsprung, has been credited with running into the hallway toward the shooter once the gunfire sounded at the Newtown, Conn. school. Twenty-six people, including Hochsprung and 20 children, were shot dead.
With a renewed nationwide debate over gun control in the wake of the tragedy, Gohmert said “every mass killing of more than three people in recent history has been in a place where guns were prohibited, except for one…they know no one will be armed.”
That comment will draw much opposition from the usual, and some unlikely, sources. But what is wrong with being prepared to defend yourself, AND defend the innocent and unarmed you are responsible for, from certain death? “But more violence will only add to an already violent culture” you say? When did it become fashionable for likely targets of violence to present themselves to their executioner without so much as a whimper? More pointedly: Why shouldn’t the people responsible for the safety of innocents of all sorts be able to defend themselves with more than their bare hands? If the principle and several key staff had been armed how many lives would have been saved if the shooter had taken two in the noggin instead?
Reality check for the left:
http://minx.cc/?post=335699
Flashback: Tough Gun Control Laws Failed To Prevent German School Slaughter of 2009
Dan Patterson
and Hard Right
yes very true, they depend on adult, this is so horrible,
we all have tears just looking at those children, turn you in a sad face,
thinking of the other children who have to live with that memory all their lives,
bring sadness to anyone,
someday they will question adults, why did you forsake me,
I thought I could depend on you,
it seems so logic to have one good person carrying a gun to kill the bad guys where I was learning to trust ADULT.