Gun Control

I see the folks who love their guns are circulating the story of a women in Georgia who shot an intruder with a crowbar - citing the event as a reason why there shouldn't be gun control - and stretching their imagination to say it justifies having assault weapons in the home.  One gun law supporter was quoted as saying   "It's a good thing she wasn't facing more attackers. Otherwise she would have been in trouble and she would have run out of ammunition," said Erich Pratt, director of communications for the Gun Owners of America. 

In the 65 years of my life I can't recall a single instance of a homeowner facing a horde attackers attacking their home.  I'm sure that would make the headlines and I would hear about it.  On the other hand I don't have enough fingers to count the massacres of innocent people that have occurred the last few years by nut cases wandering the streets armed to the teeth. 

Media sources say the NRA is developing TV ads to exploit the story.

They are so out of touch with reality - so deeply enamored with their right to have guns -  so wrapped up in the argument as to be out of touch with reality - it is mind-boggling.  

I'm sure there are people who want to ban all guns, but I think most people don't have a problem with people who choose to have a gun in their house for self protection.  It's foolish - statistically the gun in your house is more likely to kill you or one of your family or friends than an unknown attacker.  But if a gun in the house makes folks feel safer, not a problem - maybe we can require trigger locks and some safety training and licensing to weed out the mentally unstable.  But that seems to me to be a completely different issue than allowing anyone to buy a gun at private sales and gun shows.  Or to buy assualt weapons that have no purpose other than killing or maiming lots of people really quickly.  

80 years ago or so the NRA started as an organization of gun owners who recognized that guns were dangerous and wanted to lobby for regulation.  Today's NRA is nothing more than a public relations company for the gun industry, oblivious for the greater good of this country.

Here is an interesting question.  What countries in this world would you expect people to be lobbying to put armed guards in schools?  It is inconceivable in virtually every other developed western democracy, and most of the non-democracies in the world.  The only ones that occur to me besides the US are Iraq, Afganistan, Pakistan and the sub-saharan countries being taken over by Al-Queda.