By the time he realized his gun was no longer with him the theater was closed. Quackenbush, whose concealed carry permit has now been revoked, was packing heat at the movies so that he could shoot any gunman who, I guess, might also find the The Hobbit too long and kind of boring and start shooting up the place.

As for the rest, your entire post boils down to "Ooooh. Boom Booms be scary!"

I can only imagine that if are ever in a motor vehicle being driven through a "concealed carry" state, you probably have someone else drive while you quiver in the trunk, worried about all the bullets that might be flying around.

I'm sorry, but a handgun is not the functional equivalent of the common household flashlight. You don't misplace or lose it anywhere, let alone accidentally leave it in a restaurant booth. You don't walk around with one in public, concealed or otherwise, and think that it means you're now somehow in charge. You don't lend it to others, even to your otherwise trustworthy spouse or close relative. And you most certainly don't leave it in the glove compartment of your car, in the top drawer of your desk at work, or in a shoebox under your bed at home.

I believe that at a minimum, any licensed gun owner who experiences a known custody issue with his or her weapon should have that gun license immediately suspended. Once that firearm is located, it should be immediately confiscated by the authorities, along with any other weapons known to be in the possession of said owner. Further, both license and weapons should be returned to that owner only under written court order.

If it's found that said firearm was subsequently used in the commission of a felony, then criminal charges reflecting loss of custody should similarly follow against the dumba$$ who knowingly or unknowingly lost or misplaced his or her weapon in the first place, and levied at the discretion of the authorities and / or the court.

Possession of a firearm should have a known legal consequence that accompanies any perceived benefit to the owner, who need to take their responsibilities seriously.

And now it's all the fault of video games, which I guess explains the guy in the bell tower at U-Texas, Austin, back in '66.

And right on time cue the next "protester" to garner sympathy for ol' Wayne as he segues to blaming the news media, which somehow by not knowing as much about guns as they should before reporting on them are really the ones that made those bullets lethal.

"The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun"

relies on armed volunteers

  Even allowing that schools don't operate around the clock, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year, that would require a huge increase in manpower.

  The county sheriff employs 101 deputies total. (not all of those are in law enforcement and of course some number are also supervisory rather than in the field.)

  Just VERY VERY conservatively guesstimating that adding 35 deputies could provide manpower to station  a deputy at each school while in session, it would require a 35% increase in numbers without reducing other law enforcement coverage.

  This situation would be far more of a financial problem in some of the small counties. For example, the lowest popiulation  county in this state operates 9 schools and has  4 deputies. In other words, it would have   to  more than double the force just  to cover the schools and even with that there would be no deputies available for any other purpose while school is in session.

  As very low population counties tend to correspond with rural which tends to correspond with not wealthy, the problem is apparent.

I kind of got hooked on the show by accident - it was one of the audition nights, and as it turned out, was the one where Carly did hers.  I remember thinking then that, if her voice and performance wasn't some kind of fluke, she was going to go deep into the competition.  All in all, I think I like this show way more than American Idol, mainly because of the age range and the inclusion of groups.

It is estimated between 170-190 people die per year from choking on popcorn, making it one of the top 5 most dangerous snack.

Boehner's looking ridiculously weak, and what I'm afraid we're doomed to see next is Obama "helping" Boehner by erasing the apparently always-moving line-in-the-sand.  Again.

The Republicans have put themselves in a holy mess with this Plan B debacle. They now have less than zero leverage. They are a national laughingstock. A majority of the country now thinks they are "too extreme." They just got walloped in the election. And with the tax cuts set to expire the laws are rigged against them as well.

There is only one person who can rescue the Republican Party now -- Barack Obama.......link

"...those who misinterpreted the whole Mayan Calendar thing were wrong..."

Some sick, entropic, death wish-death-instinct? I think so.

:-)