Interesting opinion from a writer who doesn't blame guns
Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 12:06 pm
I don't find this guy to be a particularly good newspaper columnist, nor particularly funny (though he keeps trying to be clever and humorous). But I'm usually impressed that he does at least attempt to understand the gun rights points of view. Anyway, interesting opinion piece in Austin paper.
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Here is where I want to say somebody ought to do something to prevent soul-searing tragedies such as this one. Clearly, somebody should. But what? Unless we find out the background check was botched, Loughner legally purchased the gun. In Arizona, he did not need state permission to carry it.
And what if he did? You think a nut job bent on mayhem would hesitate because he didn't have a permit to carry the gun to the scene of the intended mayhem? Get real.
