With respect to school shootings, gun laws are a hot topic again.

guns aren’t in the president’s vocabulary. More accurately, gun bans aren’t and the WaPo seems to not like that.

The Christian Science Monitor:

In an interview after the conference, Mr. Milonopoulos voiced his dissatisfaction: “I’m grateful to the Bush administration for bringing these issues to light through a national conference, and inviting a wide variety of groups, but there needs to be a new approach beyond the dialogue that we heard [on Tuesday]. The first thing I would do is renew the federal assault weapons ban.” After the Columbine shootings in Littleton, Colo., school-safety experts called for metal detectors to keep weapons out of schools, surveillance cameras, improved school design to reduce potential hiding places – and new laws to curb access to guns.

Really? Well, we had the ban in 1999 and Columbine still happened.

And USA Today has anti-gunner Kristen Rand, who says the US is behind on gun control:

USA TODAY’s editorial “80 years of school killings leave long trail of grief” argued that events such as the execution-style shootings of 10 Amish schoolgirls are probably “unstoppable.” The fact is that such mass shootings are preventable, but the United States lacks the will to do what needs to be done: Ban handguns and semiautomatic assault weapons, and regulate the gun industry to control the firepower available to civilians (Editorial, Thursday).

So much for the whole we want only reasonable restrictions and not bans shtick.

Posted in uncategorized on October 12th, 2006 by SayUncle | RSS 2.0 |