After yesterday’s mass shooting [FN1] I posted on FB: “Another mass shooting. C’mon gun guy! Brag about how much liberty was saved!” Every few months radio ads for Indy gun shows yuck it up [FN2], so bad taste already is part of the 2A experience. Here are a few points. 1/6

A person asked: “Was it a gun free zone?” Excellent point! ... er, not really. One source notes: “Researcher John Lott is one of the originators of the claim that ‘gun-free zones are a magnet for deadly attacks.’” [FN3] Lott’s conclusions are not valid for several reasons. 2/6

“Lott misrepresents the writings” of shooters at Aurora CO and Isla Vista CA. [FN4] On Aurora: “Nowhere in [shooter’s] remarkably detailed notes does he mention civilians carrying firearms.” [FN5] Lott uses “unscientific search using MapQuest and movies.com.” Id. Isla Vista: 3/6

“Lott’s claim that the Isla Vista shooter ruled out other targets because he was concerned about encountering armed civilians is contradicted by the shooter’s own writings.” Id. Let’s return to 2A nuts & yesterday’s (latest) 2A carnage. If they believe in deterrent effects of guns, 4/6

they should celebrate each bloody damn corpse at each bloody mass shooting. If not, they are gutless bastards who get their jollies holding long, hard things that explode. Burger, C.J., called the new view of the 2A “A fraud on the American public.” Burger was no left-winger. 5/6

Footnotes: FN1. 12/6/23, UNLV. FN2. Voice of a fictional Barney Fife talks w/Harvey, the pookah in “Harvey.” FN3. GVPedia, 11/27/23, citing to Lott, “More Guns, Less Crime,” (1999) and Lott, :”Gun Control Myths,” 2020. FN4. Id., GVPedia. FN5. Id. FN6. Id. 6/6