March 10 2008
Recently(March 6th), there was another school shooting  at a Jewish School in Jerusalem - where 8 students were killed.  I am sure you heard about this tragedy.  The killer (whose name I will not write or even make an attempt to know) was armed and carried 500-600 cartridges and was intent on killing a lot more. What you most likely didn't hear is that the murder was stopped by a hero who carried a gun, this was not a police officer or a member of the military who arrived on the scene quickly, this was a student who was already there and legally armed with a firearm.  The Hero's Name is Ytizhak Dadon.  This was the first such an attack in over four years in a very volatile area of the world, where one would think this would be a daily occurrence, but those in Israel learned long ago that gun free zones only render the good people there defenseless, and encourage violent attacks.   In Israel teachers carry guns, perhaps this is why this attack is the first in so long.

In nearly every mass shooting instance in the United States the carnage ends when the good-guys with guns show up and the killer is shot by police or upon realizing the police have arrived commits suicide.  When will the politicians in the United States learn that by restricting people's ability to defend themselves they are only emboldening would-be mass murders?  Hopefully Soon. 

March 6 2008
Yesterday only slightly before the deadline the  DC Attorney General Peter Nickles filed DC's final brief with the Supreme Court in the city's effort to overturn a lower court's decision that the DCs gun laws are unconstitutional.  On March 18th the city will argue that the current ban on handguns in DC is a "reasonable restriction" on firearms.  This is a not reasonable restriction.  I wonder if the DC council has a dictionary to lookup the word reasonable or if there is no money left after years and years of tax fraud. There has been a near complete ban for over 30 years.  The only legal pistols needed to be registered prior to 1976 - about 1 year before I was born  - Is this reasonable?   Further the city mandates how the rifles and shotguns (they so graciously allow) must be stored bound by a trigger lock or disassembled.   

How well can a disassembled gun work when you need it most - like a violent encounter.  I would think that because the city council have taken away all effective methods of self defense that they would be required to protect you.  However in Warren vs. DC the supreme court ruled that the police have no duty to protect Individuals.  Is this reasonable?  Perhaps the only reasonable solution is to move to Virginia where the gun laws are much more lax and the crime is much lower.

There are many other examples of how the City of DC is failing it's residents in every possible way, but that is for another day.