The Latest Gun Tragedy Brings Same Tired Liberal Response

Well we have had another gun massacre and the Left's response was as predictable as the tides. First, of course without any information, the Left tried to blame the shooting in Aurora, Colorado on the most recent statements by Rush Limbaugh. Then in a brilliant piece of investigative journalism, ABC's Brian Ross did a Google search on the apparent shooter's name, James Holmes, found one of the forty plus names that came up was a Tea Party member and logically assumed that this was the same James Holmes. ABC has subsequently had to apologize. Wasn't Jared Loughner - the shooter in the Gabby Giffords shooting - also originally misidentified by the media as a Right-wing Tea Party guy? Wow! Oops! Turned out in that case the guy was actually a manifesto-writing, Left-winger, kook. A mistake anyone could make, right? The next step of course will be the demands for more gun control laws. The liberal theory is that adding more laws to the thousands of existing laws is bound to do the trick because more gun laws means fewer guns in the general population which means fewer horrific crimes like this. But why do these massacres always seem to occur where there aren't supposed to be any guns anyway - a school, a college campus, a summer camp for teenagers in Norway (a country with some of the most restrictive gun control laws in the world), a place of business, and now a midnight showing at a movie theatre? Hmmm? I wonder why something like this has never happened at a 24 hour pistol range? What if an armed off-duty policeman or several trained, licensed and armed citizens had been present at the theatre? Could the carnage have been stopped? I guess we will never know.