Gunning for the Answer

I've been thinking about that old chestnut, the gun debate. To arm or not to arm. To me it seems like the old chicken and egg question.

Take the abominable shootings at Virginia Tech, for example. The gunman - a non-U.S. citizen to boot - was able to walk into a store and purchase a gun and acquire others, all of which he used to massacre 30 people at VT. Now part of me is thinking, if a large proportion of those students at VT also carried guns, maybe after the first couple of deaths someone would've had the gumption and balls to retaliate by blowing the gunman's head off, therefore, saving another 20 or more people from the terror and eternal peace that followed.

Then the other part of me remembers student union bars on a Friday night and knows that guns in the hands of people who get intoxicated enough to wear traffic cones on their heads, play beer-pong and end up pissing in their laundry hampers while still wearing Hawaiian shorts and a sombrero in December can never be a good thing.

Remember, guns don't kill people, but intoxicated students certainly might.