Every act of gun related crime spurs the anti-gun crowed to a greater and greater frenzy. This week along should have worked the Brady Bunch into a fervor.

Yesterday a man with two guns went on a rampage at a City Council meeting in Kirkwood Missouri, just outside of St. Louis. He killed 5 men before the police took him down.

From the NY Times:

A man who police say went on a shooting rampage at City Hall in a St. Louis suburb Thursday night had recently lost a lawsuit against the city stemming from disorderly conduct convictions that resulted from his frequent clashes with city officials.

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Charles Lee Thornton used two weapons in killing five people and wounding two others at the City Council meeting in Kirkwood, Mo., police said. The first of the five people killed, Police Sgt. William Biggs, was shot outside the building with a large-caliber revolver and then stripped of his weapon, said Tracy Panus, spokeswoman for the St. Louis County Police Department.

The suspect then carried both guns into the council chamber, where he opened fire at the start of a council session while repeating the phrase, “Shoot the mayor,” according to a witness.

The rampage ended when police officers stormed the chamber, shooting and killing Mr. Thornton, Ms. Panus said. They heard the gunfire from the police department, which is right behind City Hall.

Today a young women killed two fellow students at Louisiana Technical Collage in Baton Ruge before killing herself.

From the Associate Press:

A young woman killed two female students in a college classroom at a vocational college Friday, then killed herself, police said.

The students apparently were shot in their seats in the second-floor classroom at Louisiana Technical College, Sgt. Don Kelly said.

Here lies the irony of a “gun free zone” as both of these areas where off limits to people carrying firearms – even if they where otherwise licensed to do so. I am sure that both of these people must have just been unaware they where breaking the law by bring a gun, had they known I am sure this would have all be avoided.

So the Brady Bunch and the rest of the anti-gun crowed will call for tighter control on guns as a result; all the while failing to realize that laws are only followed by the law abiding citizens – like those who don’t bring guns into gun-free zones. The same people who lawfully own firearms, are careful and diligent in training their children in gun safety, and who are rendered defenseless by anti-gun laws that the criminals have no intention of following anyway.

Had there been a lawful owner of a license to carry a canceled firearm who could have lawfully carried his handgun into the Kirkwood City Council meeting would this violent murderer have killed 5 people? What if the woman in Louisiana had decided to keep killing students until her gun was empty?

The bottom line is that removing guns from the hands of law abiding citizens only makes them targets.

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