SHOOTING IN OHIO | 2004-12-09
Four people were shot by a nutcase on a rampage, including one famous rock musician. He would have killed more, but a cop there shot him before he killed more people.
That is because that cop was the only honest person there who had a gun on him. Gun rampages don't happen where people are armed.
The one group that really violent people hate most is the police. But have you ever heard of a gunman going into a police convention and shooting people?
There are no special security arrangements at cop meeings. But everybody in the room has a gun on him. And there are no mass shootings.
About twenty years ago, I was talking to a cab driver in New York City. I asked him if he had ever been robbed, and he replied, "Man, I'm a CABBIE." Cab drivers in New York City were killed about one a week at that time by armed robbers.
Suddenly, the rate of taxi robbery dropped like rock. What happened was that policemen had been given permission -- not assigned -- to drive cabs to supplement their incomes.
Even off duty, a policeman must be armed at all times.
Robbers started getting shot.
Cab drivers were overjoyed. Liberals were outraged at the number of robbers pulling guns who got gunned down without due process. So the mayor stopped policemen from driving cabs and things went back to normal -- for New York City.