From San Antonio, TX, I am proud to say I exercise my right under the second ammendment to bear arms. I am trained and ready to go should some wacko feel the need do something stupid. Ron White said it best, "some states are trying to abolish the death penalty, mine is putting in an express line."

"Before I refuse to take your questions...I have a statement.." Ronald Reagan

WACO, Texas (CNN) -- Zero tolerance, huh? Gun-free zones, huh? Try this on for size: Columbine gun-free zone, New York City pizza shop gun-free zone, Luby's Cafeteria gun-free zone, Amish school in Pennsylvania gun-free zone and now Virginia Tech gun-free zone.

Anybody see what the evil Brady Campaign and other anti-gun cults have created? I personally have zero tolerance for evil and denial. And America had best wake up real fast that the brain-dead celebration of unarmed helplessness will get you killed every time, and I've about had enough of it.

Nearly a decade ago, a Springfield, Oregon, high schooler, a hunter familiar with firearms, was able to bring an unfolding rampage to an abrupt end when he identified a gunman attempting to reload his .22-caliber rifle, made the tactical decision to make a move and tackled the shooter.

A few years back, an assistant principal at Pearl High School in Mississippi, which was a gun-free zone, retrieved his legally owned Colt .45 from his car and stopped a Columbine wannabe from continuing his massacre at another school after he had killed two and wounded more at Pearl.

At an eighth-grade school dance in Pennsylvania, a boy fatally shot a teacher and wounded two students before the owner of the dance hall brought the killing to a halt with his own gun.

More recently, just a few miles up the road from Virginia Tech, two law school students ran to fetch their legally owned firearm to stop a madman from slaughtering anybody and everybody he pleased. These brave, average, armed citizens neutralized him pronto.

My hero, Dr. Suzanne Gratia Hupp, was not allowed by Texas law to carry her handgun into Luby's Cafeteria that fateful day in 1991, when due to bureaucrat-forced unarmed helplessness she could do nothing to stop satanic George Hennard from killing 23 people and wounding more than 20 others before he shot himself. Hupp was unarmed for no other reason than denial-ridden "feel good" politics.

She has since led the charge for concealed weapon upgrade in Texas, where we can now stop evil. Yet, there are still the mindless puppets of the Brady Campaign and other anti-gun organizations insisting on continuing the gun-free zone insanity by which innocents are forced into unarmed helplessness. Shame on them. Shame on America. Shame on the anti-gunners all.

No one was foolish enough to debate Ryder truck regulations or ammonia nitrate restrictions or a "cult of agriculture fertilizer" following the unabashed evil of Timothy McVeigh's heinous crime against America on that fateful day in Oklahoma City. No one faulted kitchen utensils or other hardware of choice after Jeffrey Dahmer was caught drugging, mutilating, raping, murdering and cannibalizing his victims. Nobody wanted "steak knife control" as they autopsied the dead nurses in Chicago, Illinois, as Richard Speck went on trial for mass murder.

Evil is as evil does, and laws disarming guaranteed victims make evil people very, very happy. Shame on us.

Already spineless gun control advocates are squawking like chickens with their tiny-brained heads chopped off, making political hay over this most recent, devastating Virginia Tech massacre, when in fact it is their own forced gun-free zone policy that enabled the unchallenged methodical murder of 32 people.

Thirty-two people dead on a U.S. college campus pursuing their American Dream, mowed-down over an extended period of time by a lone, non-American gunman in possession of a firearm on campus in defiance of a zero-tolerance gun ban. Feel better yet? Didn't think so.

Who doesn't get this? Who has the audacity to demand unarmed helplessness? Who likes dead good guys?

I'll tell you who. People who tramp on the Second Amendment, that's who. People who refuse to accept the self-evident truth that free people have the God-given right to keep and bear arms, to defend themselves and their loved ones. People who are so desperate in their drive to control others, so mindless in their denial that they pretend access to gas causes arson, Ryder trucks and fertilizer cause terrorism, water causes drowning, forks and spoons cause obesity, dialing 911 will somehow save your life, and that their greedy clamoring to "feel good" is more important than admitting that armed citizens are much better equipped to stop evil than unarmed, helpless ones.

Pray for the families of victims everywhere, America. Study the methodology of evil. It has a profile, a system, a preferred environment where victims cannot fight back. Embrace the facts, demand upgrade and be certain that your children's school has a better plan than Virginia Tech or Columbine. Eliminate the insanity of gun-free zones, which will never, ever be gun-free zones. They will only be good guy gun-free zones, and that is a recipe for disaster written in blood on the altar of denial. I, for one, refuse to genuflect there.

This was written by Ted Nugent

The Maryland legislature and the NRA teamed up several years ago to creat a program where public school kids would take a field trip to a shooting range twice while in school (I think the trips were in 3rd and 6th grade, but I'm not sure).  The purpose of these field trips was to expose kids to firearms safety issues like how to tell if a firearm is loaded or not, what to do if you should find a firearm, how to safely handle a firearm, etc. 

The purpose of these field trips was to de-mystify firearms for kids.  Most kids only see a firearm used in the movies or TV, and when they do come across one they tend to mimic what they've seen, which usually ends up in an accidental shooting.  By educating kids, and allowing them to handle firearms in a safe and controlled setting, the kids get a much better understanding of firearms safety and what they should, and shouldn't do, if they come across one.

The program was piloted in two mainly rural Maryland counties, and was a great success.  The Maryland legislature approved the measure to expand the program to all Maryland counties, but then Governor Parris Glendenning vetoed the measure and ended the program.  His stated reason was that he was concerned about the liability issues of having school children at shooting ranges, but shortly after the veto he was caught on tape at a political event telling someone that there was no way in Hell he would ever be seen supporting anything to do with the NRA.

So, Governor "The Children Come First" Glendenning, the guy who heaped law after law on families requiring kids to wear helmets, pads, and other safety equipment before they could perform just about any outside activity, and justified these laws because "what's more important than the safety of the kids?", nixed a great child protection program because of petty political agendas.

Parker ---This would take a few hours but I suggest reseaching "accidental "death stats to put things in perspective. For instance, 115 people will die today in auto accidents, 45 due to alcohol. For whatever reason, DC has the highest drunk driving death rate in the US. Also eight motorcycle riders will assume room temperature today. As for the murder rate, if you factor out the gang bangers, the murder rate drops. Remember, the murder rate is not the same as gun related deaths. Violent crime has been going down since about 1991 while it is rising the nanny states around the world. But then I don't think you can't compare cultures and crime, 'cause how they report what skews the results. As for leaving a loaded gun where kids can get at it, there is no excuse. When you have the facts, please report back.

I live in the People's Republic of Maryland which has a very high crime rate. Mostly concentrated in Prince George's County and the City of Baltimore. Maryland has very strict gun permit restrictions. The nasty little secret that no one on the left and MSM wants to reveal is that states like Virginia with reasonable right to carry laws have had little or no problem (that I could ever dig up) with someone permitted to carry a firearm. In the state of Virginia I have never even heard of any misuse by someone authorized and permitted to carry much less commit murder or mayhem. I am sure the MSM would be all over it if it had occurred

"A mind is a terrible thing." - A comic I forgot the name of.

You actually scared me for a minute there, Bruzilla. I thought I was watching a guns = bad scenario unfolding in an area I am also very familiar with. My parents lived for years in Mandarin in Jacksonville and I have other family in Orange Park. A good friend runs a gun/pawn shop on 103rd St.

You are absolutely correct that when only looking at the surface numbers in this case, more guns does indeed seem to equal more crime. Most of the anti's rants are the same (those that have any basis in fact, that is). On the surface, they can be often be seen to have a point. Of course this requires one to see the numbers without the benefit of a drop of common sense.

It's almost a given that low income urban areas dominate violent crime statistics. I won't even open the argument on why this is. Let's just say it is, and let it go at that. You identified one point - poor people can't afford a gun. Some other points are:

Criminals tend to haunt familiar territory, in other words, close to where they live. Middle class and up don't tend to roam the streets mugging people. Therefore it follows that many (most) violent criminals, committing their crimes in poor neighborhoods, are poor themselves, and probably live near where they "work".

Criminals, for the reasons listed above, have a pretty good idea that those they are wont to prey upon will be unarmed. It has been scientifically determined that a criminal's greatest fear is the potential that their intended victim may be armed. Therefore, it follows that they will operate where the chances of an armed victim are as low as possible.

And common sense (which is, unfortunately, becoming more uncommon) is that a legally armed, law abiding person can, and will,  if given the opportunity, take out a psycho bent on murdering people.

The Closed Mind Erects Strong Barriers