"Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, was the sole representative of gun rights' activists on the various Sunday talk shows. In an interview on 'Fox News Sunday,' Gohmert defended the sale of assault weapons and said that the principal at Sandy Hook Elementary School, who authorities say died trying to overtake the shooter, should herself have been armed.
"'I wish to God she had had an M-4 in her office, locked up so when she heard gunfire, she pulls it out and she didn't have to lunge heroically with nothing in her hands. But she takes him (the shooter) out, takes his head off before he can kill those precious kids, Gohmert said.'"
- "Senators call for ban on assault weapons, want commission to examine gun laws, mental health", Anne Flaherty , Associated Press Updated: December 16, 2012 - 2:52 PM
Do we really want to live in a country where every citizen is armed? Do we have to add weapons training to the curricula of our schools of education? When I went to high school in the 1950s, we didn't even have cops in the schools. What has changed in our country? Maybe it was too many westerns in which the hero was always the fastest draw and the most accurate shot. For a couple of more realistic views, see "Myth of the Hero Gunslinger" and "How the Gunfighter Killed Bourgeois America".
As for the proposed year-and-a-half waiting period "to discuss this volatile matter" the U.S. has been averaging two mass murders per year for the last thirty years. "And in most cases, the killers had obtained their weapons legally."
- "11 facts about U.S. gun massacres", Ezra Klein, Washington Post Updated: December 15, 2012 - 7:10 PM, retrieved from Star Tribune
