The Chardon High School shooting; is gun control the answer?

By now you've surely heard about the Chardon shootings. High school kid goes off the deep end and shoots four of his school-mates.

There's not enough detail out yet to get a good picture of the motivations of the shooter. Was he a bullied dweeb who finally snapped and lashed out at his tormentors?

Was he a young psycho itching to make a name for himself?

Was the shooting a manifestation of race war, class war, holy war?

Who knows?

But one thing I can guarantee you is that the gun control lobby will be all over it like flies on a cow-pie.

Nothing like a senseless tragedy to rally those folks. If you listen to them long enough you start believing that the world would be a peaceable paradise if only nobody was ever allowed to own a gun.

Except cops and soldiers, of course. I suppose they'll need them in the gun-free future just in case a few of the bad guys kept one back.

So get ready for the flood of anti-gun editorials that is about to sweep the nation. Happens every time. Hell, Michael Moore rode this issue all the way to an Oscar for Bowling for Columbine.

Personally, I'm of a different opinion. There was a time before guns. Was it less violent than today?

When Grok came home and found his woman in the clutches of Throk 50,000 years ago, he didn't reach for a 9 mil. He picked up a boulder and caved Throks skull.

Dead is dead.

On the other hand, there's going to be lots of counter-editorializing by the pro-gun folks that is just as stupid.

Your concealed carry afficianados are going to be arguing that Chardon would never have happened if every student in that school was packing.

Not sure about that. You texted my girlfriend? How dare you! Pow!

That isn't the answer either.