That's what we need, all right — more guns!
The president of Liberty "University" has advised his student body to "get your permit." Worrying aloud about ISIL sympathizers attacking his campus, Falwell went on, "we could end those Muslims before they walked in." (Ugh. How Christian of him.)
Problem is, most gun deaths are not from the mass shootings Falwell's obsessed about happening at his silly school. According to this fascinating (and depressing) analysis by The Washington Post, of the thousands and thousands of gun deaths every year, only a tiny fraction are from rampages like Aurora or Sandy Hook or San Bernardino. So we fail to see how everybody packing heat everywhere is going to contribute to Americans' overall safety.
We cats have said it before and we'll say it again: We would rip the Second Amendment out of the Constitution if we could. In the meantime, we'll have to console ourselves that folks like the staff at the New York Daily News are refusing to be silent — or back down from Wayne LaPierre's outrage. It all makes us HISS.
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