WHAT LIBERALS DON'T KNOW ABOUT GUNS, CHAPTER 217

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WHAT LIBERALS DON'T KNOW ABOUT GUNS, CHAPTER 217 
by Ann Coulter
February 2, 2011

Fresh off of blaming Jared Loughner's killing spree in the Tucson mall on
Sarah Palin, liberals are now blaming it on high-capacity magazines. They
might as well imprison everyone named "Jared" to prevent a crime like this
from ever happening again. 

During the presidential campaign, Obama said: "I don't know of any
self-respecting hunter that needs 19 rounds of anything. You don't shoot 19
rounds at a deer, and if you do, you shouldn't be hunting." It would have
been more accurate for him to end that sentence after the word "hunter." 

It's so adorable when people who wouldn't know a high-capacity magazine from
Vanity Fair start telling gun owners what they should want and need. 

In fact, high-capacity mags put a predator like Loughner at a disadvantage
because they are so long, unwieldy and difficult to conceal. This may be why
the Tucson shooting appears to be the first spree killing involving a
high-capacity magazine. It would have been easier for Loughner to bring two
guns. 

On the other hand, for a homeowner who is a poor marksman, a large-capacity
clip could be a lifesaver. 

But after every multiple murder, liberals come up with some crackpot idea to
"do something" that invariably involves infringing on some aspect of our
Second Amendment rights. 

The ACLU won't let us put nuts in mental hospitals and Pima County Sheriff
Clarence Dupnik wouldn't lock up Loughner even after he had broken the law
several times. 

In an open society that includes Sheriff Dumbnik and the ACLU, deranged
individuals may explode into murder and mayhem now and then. The best we can
do is enact policies that will reduce the death toll when these acts of
carnage occur. 

There's only one policy of any kind that has ever been shown to deter mass
murder: concealed-carry laws. In a comprehensive study of all public,
multiple-shooting incidents in America between 1977 and 1999, the highly
regarded economists John Lott and Bill Landes found that concealed-carry
laws were the only laws that had any beneficial effect. 

And the effect was not small. States that allowed citizens to carry
concealed handguns reduced multiple-shooting attacks by 60 percent and
reduced the death and injury from these attacks by nearly 80 percent. 

When there are no armed citizens to stop mass murderers, the killers are
able to shoot unabated, even pausing to reload their weapons, until they get
bored and stop. Some stop only when their trigger fingers develop carpal
tunnel syndrome. 

Consider just the school shootings -- popular sites for mass murder because
so many schools are "gun-free zones." Or, as mass murderers call them,
"free-fire zones." 

At Columbine High School, two students killed 13 people before ending the
carnage themselves by committing suicide. They didn't need high-capacity
magazines because they were able to stop and reload. 

At the Amish school shooting in 2006 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, the
deranged killer murdered five little girls and then committed suicide. 

In 1998, two students in Craighead County, Arkansas, killed five people,
including four little girls, before the killers decided to stop and attempt
an escape. 

And in 2007, a deranged student killed 32 people at Virginia Tech -- 30 of
them in a very short period of time in one building. He didn't need
high-capacity magazines because he had two guns and reloaded. 

There was no one to stop him. 

School shootings that have been halted were almost always stopped by the
happenstance of an armed citizen on school property. 

In 2002, an immigrant in Virginia started shooting his classmates at the
Appalachian Law School in Grundy. Two of his classmates retrieved guns from
their cars, forcing the killer to drop his weapon and allowing a third
classmate to tackle him. 

Three dead. 

In Santee, Calif., in 2001, when a student began shooting his classmates,
the school activated its "safe school plan" -- as the principal later told
CNN -- by sending a "trained campus supervisor" to stop the killer. 

Possibly not realizing that he was in a gun-free zone, the killer responded
by shooting the trained campus supervisor three times. Fortunately, an armed
off-duty San Diego policeman happened to be bringing his daughter to school
that day. With a gun, he stopped the killer and held him at bay until more
police could arrive. 

Two dead. 

In 1997, a student at Pearl High School in Pearl, Miss., had already shot
several people at his high school and was headed for the junior high school
when assistant principal Joel Myrick retrieved a .45 pistol from his car and
pointed it at the gunman's head, ending the slaughter. 

Two dead. 

In 1998, a student attending a junior high school dance at a restaurant in
Edinboro, Pa., started shooting, whereupon the restaurant owner pulled out
his shotgun, chased the gunman from the restaurant and captured him for the
police. 

One dead. 

See the pattern? 

In response to Columbine, schools adopted "anti-bullying" policies; in
response to Virginia Tech, eBay ceased selling magazines online; in response
to the Tucson shooting, liberals want to ban the particular magazine
Loughner used. 

And then the next killer will come along with a different arsenal and a
different motive, and the only way to stop him will be with an armed citizen
with a gun.

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