Note to Wayne La Pierre: There was a good guy with a gun trying to stop the Las Vegas Cop Killers. He Died Too.

Above: Philadelphia Wall Commemorating Gun Deaths.

From George Skelton's LA Times piece:

A good guy with a gun tried to stop a bad guy with a gun. You know, like the NRA preaches. It was a bad move.

The good guy got mowed down by the bad guy's batty wife.

She had been a good woman — one of those "innocent, law abiding" citizens the gun lobby is always exalting — until, like so many, she went bad and started shooting people.

An armed society really isn't a safer society.

The more guns sold, the better for gun dealers and for NRA membership sales. The worse, however, for the truly innocent who get caught in the crossfire of gun violence.
Times articles have detailed what happened in Las Vegas. A young married couple — Jerad and Amanda Miller — went berserk hallucinating about government tyranny, a common enemy of armed radicals. Jerad especially resented his marijuana bust. They decided to launch the revolution.

The pair — loaded with pistols, a shotgun and hundreds of rounds of ammunition — went to a pizzeria and fatally shot two armed policemen calmly eating their lunch. Then they walked to a nearby Wal-Mart, where Jerad fired a shot in the air and warned shoppers to run because cops were coming. "The revolution is about to start," he shouted.

One shopper — Joseph Robert Wilcox, 31 — stood his ground, pulled out a concealed weapon and confronted Jerad. But he hadn't noticed Amanda. She shot him dead.

So we know you were spouting some made up a story about that "good guy with a gun" Mr La Pierre, but it burns one family very deeply right now that their loved one believed your NRA enabling BS and was willing to do what he could to stop a terrorist attack by some of your fans.

  And this should teach everyone in the US that NRA explanatory speech is simply BS aimed at keeping the money flowing into the pockets of gun makers and sellers and yourself, Mr. La Pierre.

You aren't worth the lives of our loved ones, nor even one of their living breaths.

He is a Google cache of the LA Times piece I reference.  Google often dumps their caches rapidly, but you could try searching Google News or Google regular for  "More guns don't make for a safer society". 

Picture at top used via Creative Commons License Attribution (CC by 2.0) thanks to flickr user Tony Fischer Photography.

Is Gun Violence Becoming All Too Common? Who Shoots Up a Mother's Day Parade?

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Though many of us decry the swamp of guns in our cities leading to tragedies like the mass shooting at an impromptu Mother's Day parade (one of many spontaneous musicians and followers parades that can spring up so delightfully in New Orleans) some causes run very deep.

It is well known that animals like small rodents facing increasing restrictions of space, food, and  other  needs will become randomly violent as their suffering becomes greater.  And the rodents don't even have the extra impetus a chance of making extra money by selling contraband (which then others want to steal, and because one can't call the cops to get their illegal stuff back, the ever present gun comes out).  Thank NRA executive vice president Wayne La Pierre for making sure there's always a gun around when someone wants to shoot someone.

But there are other problems too, like letting billionaires pay almost no taxes, and a pathetic minimum wage and stuff the rest of us into a filthy hot and cramped box until humanity becomes distorted like a suffering, unmanageable violent scrum.

I can't wait for the first Republican to say that what we really need is a go invasive war to clean out our ghettos.  (Of course the last one did nothing but increase suffering, but the GOP doesn't let the truth get in the way of killing people by the thousands).