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Happy now? Gun nuts happy now? Conceal and Carry Crazies, happy now?
Ask the families of two slain police officers if we need more guns on our streets….
Happy now? This is the price we pay because rural red-necks like to shoot squirrels every October….Happy now.
Over one million Americans killed on our streets by gunfire since 1968. That equals over 250 Iraqi wars.. Happy now.

Thanks for your concern Congressman,….Governor.

We need a better Congressman for sure!!!

Will Akin come up with any logical and sensible plans to prevent future tragedies like this from occuring again in his district.

Mrs garrison, do you have any proof that the killer yesterday had a valid CCW permit? You are aware that City Hall was a no gun zone, so the criminal was the only one with a gun. Partisan hacks like you make me sick. 5 people lay dead and you want to take issue with guns. You are no better than those who are making a racial issue out of this.

Mr. Bellum:

Fact: Both of the slain officers had guns. One of these guns was used by the killer to take the lives of subsequent victims.

Fact: The NRA opposes ALL efforts to control gun ownership.

Mr. Walsh, as most anti-gun extremists, has completely misrepresented the NRA’s position. Whether he doesn’t understand it himself, or is just lying, I don’t know.

In fact, the NRA supports taking guns out of the hands of criminals, and supports strict penalties for those who own or use firearms unlawfully. In Mr. Walsh’s world, we fight crime by taking guns away from law abiding citizens, by assessing civil and criminal penalties against those who defend themselves from violent criminals using deadly force, and by giving violent criminals a gentle slap on the wrist.

Mr. Walsh points out that the deranged killer in Kirkwood took the firearm from the officer he killed, and used it to kill others. Similarly, an officer in New Orleans was recently disarmed by a criminal she was attempting to arrest, and killed with her own gun. Does Mr. Walsh suggest, then, that we should even disarm police officers?

Tragedies often bring knee jerk reactions. My condolences to the families. While some will blame the tool used most know that it was the individual that was responsible. The same tool this murderer used in his crime was used to stop him. Gun free zones are killing zones. A civilian with a legally carried firearm may have been able to stop the carnage sooner. Mr. Thornton wouldn’t have targeted the armed civilian as he did the uniformed Officers because he wouldn’t have known who was armed.

See…I told you so.

The fact is that if any of the members of the Kirkwood City Council had taken advantage of their ability to carry a concealed weapon at that meeting then there might have been fewer deaths.

Since Mr. Thornton shot the second officer as soon as he entered the room there’s really no way anyone else could have stopped him. However he could have been stopped before he began his rampage behind the table if someone had been able to throw lead rather than chairs.

Under current Missouri Law only the members of a ‘governing body’ can legally carry a concealed weapon at their meetings.

And Garrison, if guns are the cause of these shootings then why aren’t there more at:
Gun shops
Police stations
Gun shows
Military bases
and all of the other places known to have lots of guns around?

Instead it seems as if the only place we hear of these mass attacks are places that are known to be ‘gun free’.