In Spite of the Virginia Tech Massacre? Or Because of It?
Clayton Cramer (H/T: Michelle Malkin)
The Kansas legislature overrode Governor Sibelius's veto:
TOPEKA - Gov. Kathleen Sebelius' veto of a bill preventing local governments from imposing additional restrictions on Kansans carrying concealed guns was overridden Friday by the Legislature, allowing it to become law.
It's the second veto of the Democratic governor to be overridden by the Republican-controlled Legislature. Last year, lawmakers overrode her veto of the bill creating the concealed gun law.
The override was completed when the Senate voted 30-10 -- three more than the necessary two-thirds majority. On Thursday, the House overrode the veto on a 98-26 vote. ...
In a society that doesn't lock up dangerously mentally ill people until they have killed someone, and where Congresscritters are talking about the dangers of terrorists obtaining guns, the last thing we need is more victim-disarmament zones. ...
Is That a Gun in Your Pocket?
Iowahawk
[Found in a dumpster behind the Glass Bowl in Toledo, Ohio - the first draft of Dan Simpson's gun control public policy masterpiece]
LAST week's tragedy at Virginia Tech in which a mentally disturbed person gunned down 32 of America's finest - intelligent young people with futures ahead of them - once again puts the phenomenon of an armed society into focus for Americans.
Let's do the math: (a) those two Virgina Tech guns killed an average of 16.5 people; (2) by conservative estimates, 240 million guns are wandering aimlessly around America's mean streets; therefore (iii) when these crazy guns finally snap, they will kill (16.5 x 240 million) = 4 billion people -- wiping out not only Virginia Tech, but the entire ACC and NCAA Division I-A itself. In this post-gun apocalypse there won't be enough survivors to bury the dead, let alone fill a decent bracket at the NCAA basketball tournament.
Obviously something must be done to stop this impending March Madness. ...
