As far as the gun issue goes this is nothing new. I always like to pose gun control advocates with a few simple questions and scenarios. Most people on this board I would assume believe that an armed society is a safer society.

Can you imagine if airline security were left up to the airlines instead of the feds? This way I could chose to fly on the airline that imposes the strictest security standards. Airlines would compete for passengers based on their level of security. Do you think 19 hijackers would have been able to over-run 4 planes with box cutters if the pilots had been armed? How about if there were designated armed air marshalls employed by the airlines on each flight? Those fools would have been shot dead. That little implementation could have saved us thousands of lives and two costly wars.

How about school shootings? What if teachers were trained and armed? How many deadly school shootings would have turned out the same way? Colleges same thing. How many campus rapes could have been avoided with a concealed carry law in place?

Too many times we look to the government to protect us from things we fear when we should be thinking of solutions that can be accomplished on our own.