Fighting back

Posted on April 19, 2007 | Comments Off on Fighting back

I’m not one of the 250,000 or so Texans licensed to carry a concealed handgun, but I definitely support the law that allows it and the law moving through the Legislature to protect their privacy by closing the license records to the curious. But I’m not sure the answer to the monster Cho and other psychos is more carrying. You’d first have to get schools, government offices and most businesses here and elsewhere to take down the signs at their entrances banning firearms on their premises, which of course only stops the law-abiding. A simpler approach would be to recognize that passivity in the face of the Chos has to end. High school and college students must be at least minimally trained to resist, as the Burleson school district south of Fort Worth is doing. One person with a gun could have stopped Cho, but three bold young men–or women, for that matter–with minimal training could have disarmed him.

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0 responses to “Fighting back”

  1. SnoopyTheGoon's avatar SnoopyTheGoon | April 21, 2007 at 2:42 pm |

    Right. It is a difficult issue at best. Besides, lots of amateurs with handguns will kill more friends than foes.

  2. SnoopyTheGoon's avatar SnoopyTheGoon | April 21, 2007 at 2:42 pm |

    Right. It is a difficult issue at best. Besides, lots of amateurs with handguns will kill more friends than foes.

  3. Unknown's avatar Dick Stanley | April 27, 2007 at 11:26 pm |

    Meant to respond earlier, sorry. Texas alone has a quarter of a million people carrying concealed handguns, and I do not recall any story in recent years about any of them shooting anyone.

  4. Unknown's avatar Dick Stanley | April 27, 2007 at 11:26 pm |

    Meant to respond earlier, sorry. Texas alone has a quarter of a million people carrying concealed handguns, and I do not recall any story in recent years about any of them shooting anyone.