32 Dead

It is horrible and lamentable that this thing occurred. My thoughts go to the survivors, the murdered and their families.

We shall now see just who responds and how this response shall be crafted, by politicians, in terms of another push to limit guns.

• The tower of Charles Whitman.
• The Luby's cafeteria shooting.
• McDonald's in San Ysidro.
• Columbine.

These are examples mass murders.

I say, not only:

• Does an individual have a right to self defense;
• One has a duty to self defense and self preservation.

One 9mm round, well-placed by an armed American citizen, could have stopped all of these actions before they became mass murder situations. The cops aren't going to be there, at the right place at the right time for situations like this. They simply cannot. There aren't enough to go around for much more than after-action "responses." Cops can't protect the bulk of you. I know. I'm a cop. We respond. We seldom prevent. It's a fact of life.

Let the whining and breast-beating and victimhood otherwise commence.

BZ