Because of the action of one person the “good” crazies will want to enact legislation for more strict gun control that will affect 300 million people and many in adverse ways. There are millions of gun owners in this country and 99.9% are responsible in their actions. Those who are not are criminals and mentally off center. Pass all the legislation you wish and the criminals will still have guns and the nuts cases will find a way to get a gun.

The best example is of Australia that passed a law banning firearms and a year ago removed more than 640,000 guns from citizens. Did this solve the “gun problem”? Look at the statistics.

Country-wide homicides up 6.2%, assaults up 9.2%, armed robberies up a whopping 44%. The state of Victoria has an increase in homicides of 300%. Armed robberies have been slowly decreasing during the previous 25 years. Now criminals know the honest citizens no longer have a defense against them. Politicians pandering to the “good” crazies created a bigger problem than they solved.

There are currently enough laws limiting gun ownership by honest people and it won’t make a twit in crime statistics with more anti-gun laws - or the murder rate. An example is Washington, DC that has a very restrictive gun law yet one of the highest murder rates in the nation. New York is another yet you can buy a gun on the street within minutes if you want to.

The “bad” crazies are easy to identify. It is the “good” crazies that hide behind altruistic words and actually believe that legislation will solve a psychological problem. Their thinking is as far off center as the nut who kills school children for his imagined reason.

What is the difference in a gun crazy person who shoots people and the leader of a country that threatens his neighbors with bigger guns and nukes? For the same reason you cannot legislate a gun nut you cannot legislate a crazy dictator with U.N. resolutions. Neither is effective. Police are allowed to kill the individual gun nut on campus, but the world is not allowed to take out a country leader. Each one kills people, but just on a different scale.

Good people will continue to be good people without legislation and bad people will continue to be bad no matter what the legislation.

The best advice for the kids at Virginia Tech or any college campus is learn to live in the real world and not be upset by the occasional crazy. More laws will not solve the problem.

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Copyright 2007 Albert W. Thomas All rights reserved. Author of "IF IT DOESN'T GO UP, DON'T BUY IT!"