I was going to go to the library yesterday, and couldn't, because the library had been evacuated and an area of several blocks around it cordoned off by the police, because there was some nutter with a gun threatening people ( Read more... )

Saying "guns don't kill people, PEOPLE kill people" is like saying "killbots don't kill people, PEOPLE kill people." The only function of a gun is to kill; keep rifles for hunters if you must, but BAN HANDGUNS. This is as obvious as banning killbots ( Read more... )

Gun control is a noble goal, and I fully support it, but allow me to point out something: the two most recent gunmen stole their weapons from people who had legally bought theirs, and passed background checks. No amount of gun control is ever going to keep sufficiently motivated nutjobs from getting weapons ( Read more... )