A sad Chicago connection to the shootings in Arizona

[phesina]

Thanks for the link, Gretchen. I just looked at the article. It gives very thoughtful coniderations to pro-gun-rights arguments as well as anti-, concluding very wisely (in my opinion):

If there is anything that both sides should be able to agree on, it's that unstable individuals should not have access to any kind of weapon, much less the so-called fourth-generation semiautomatic Glock 19 that Loughner bought.
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/nation/arti...#ixzz1Afz81wOd


I do have to say, though, I especially liked this paragraph:

Gun-rights supporters see a different moral to the shooting. "It shows more than ever why people need to have the tools of defense," says Charles Heller, founder of the Arizona Citizens Defense League. As for additional gun-control laws, Heller says, "It doesn't need to be any more illegal than it already is to shoot a Congresswoman in the head."
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/nation/arti...#ixzz1AfzaHztP

Yeah, right.. If that little 9-year-old girl had only been packing heat.. if Rep. Giffords had.. if the other victims had.. there would have been no deaths, no injuries (except for the bad guy, of course)!