The 'Crossroads Of The West' gun and ammo "show" was held a few days after the massacre in Tucson, and there were people lined up to get in well before the official opening. Needless to say, none of them saw anything wrong with having the event at all, much less even postponing it due to the massacre of six people by a probably demented person. Here were two of the quotes Ned found especially noteworthy: first, the old bromide 'guns don't kill people, people kill people.' To the moron who favored the reporter with this bit of wisdom Ned would reply by asking him whether he would rather be faced by a snarling, demented sociopath armed with a broom handle, or one armed with a semiautomatic Glock pistol?
The second quote was similarly edifying: "It's not about guns, it's about mental illness." Besides the obvious outrage that all right-thinking persons ought to direct at someone practicing medicine, in this case psychiatry, without a license, Ned wondered how a mentally ill person with the vilest intent on the planet could inflict such casualties on a large group of innocent persons without a gun and more specifically an assault weapon? The answer came to him in a flash: by means of a 'suicide bomb.' So perhaps we should be asking how can we change the restrictive laws in this country to make incendiary devices available to all? Surely if the Constitution gives every sociopath the right to buy as many guns as he or she wants, then it would be discriminatory not to extend the same right to buy and detonate chest packs of plastic explosives. Then we would begin to hear, 'plastic explosives don't kill people, people kill people.' Or, 'it isn't about plastic explosives, it's about mental illness.'
Ned wishes his sane and less-sane friends alike a pleasant Sunday.
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