Another one..

Sigh...shooting at an elementary school in Connecticut.  My thoughts go out to the families.
And now the recriminations and the calls for 1. gun control[you people just don't get it]
2. banning of all guns [neither do you]
3. closing down public schools[mental defectives],
4. Using extreme security measures that in some cases already exist in the schools...to "protect" our young.  Uhmmm lets see, we have guards, metal detectors at the doors and dogs that do random sweeps for drugs, in the schools of major cities already.  It isn't working, won't work, is proven ineffective and you idiot's solution is to add MORE restrictions to this? *headdesk*   To turn our SCHOOLS into de facto PRISONS for our young? *headdesk, headdesk, headdesk*

I get tired of pointing this out but these things happen invariably in "Gun Free Zones" where those who WOULD be armed, are DISARMED...making them unable to defend themselves and their fellow human beings. Turning them into cattle packed into pens awaiting slaughter.  Herd Animals.
Human beings are not meant to be HERD animals. Herd animals get killed because they can't defend themselves. If you want to use an animal analogue to what we are..we are..pack animals, like wolves. Or lone hunters like the Big Cats and the Falcons and Hawks.  We're armed. We are THE Apex predator on this planet. We can out think, out kill and out run, with our inventions called automobiles, planes and trains...any other animal on this planet. 

Yet...some seem to have this driving need, out of some..misplaced sense of assumed group guilt, or some misguided need to make us "better" and make us in effect LESS than what we are.  It drives me nuts.

Remember TANSTAAFL and
I now return you to your regularly scheduled inanity and insanity.