Well, unfortunately, this sort of story is getting old: Madman with gun shoots unarmed innocents and looks to continue rampage where he can find even more unarmed innocents.
However, I want you to note something that probably isn’t obvious at first glance. This story and the Virginia Tech shootings are not just about deranged men going on shooting sprees.
The First Answer: It’s hardly newsworthy to the MSM because “only” four people were murdered and the body-count is not in double-figures, so it won’t sell as many commercials.
The Bigger Answer: But, what’s truly sad here is that the opposite should be true; it should be doubly newsworthy. Much more should be said about this incident, because the only reason that this tragic event didn’t get out of control was because unlike at Virginia Tech, the man was confronted almost immediately upon his arriving at the shopping mall by — armed security guards (and/or off-duty policemen — reports vary). Bad guy with gun runs into good guys with guns and bad guy can’t kill more unarmed civilians because bad guy is shot dead.
See what happens when a bad guy isn’t given the chance to shoot himself in the end because he’s out of ammo?
Gun control isn’t the answer. Making sure that people have a means of defending themselves is. I hope security personnel at our colleges and universities are taking notes. Select people in almost all stations of life should be allowed to earn licenses to carry concealed weapons into gun-free zones. Believe me, if security guards can carry weapons, there’s no reason why more people shouldn’t be allowed. In most states in the U.S., it’s a simple matter of having a clean record and a few days training and a regular-joe off the street is an armed security guard. So, what in the world is the fear of having some tenured professors or a few ROTC students with exemplary records being armed so that they can do exactly what was done in Kansas City yesterday?: Stop the badguys.
I’m willing to bet the death counts will go down significantly and the MSM will have to find new ways of selling commercials.
Details available at FOXNews.com:
KANSAS CITY, Mo. � A man driving a dead woman’s car shot a police officer, then opened fire in a parking lot and a mall Sunday, authorities said. By the end of the day, four people, including the gunman, were dead.
The chaos ended when police shot the gunman to death outside a Target store inside Ward Parkway Center in south Kansas City, police spokesman Tony Sanders said.
The gunfire sent shoppers and employees scurrying for cover. Target employee Cassie Bradshaw, 19, of Kansas City was in a break room with two other people when they first heard shots. Then, her co-workers saw a man in his 50s with a rifle “shooting everywhere,” she said.
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