The Daily Beast's Megan McArdle has a GREAT idea on how to prevent, or at least limit, mass shootings via assault rifle. Here it is:
"My guess is that we're going to get a law anyway, and my hope is that it will consist of small measures that might have some tiny actual effect, like restrictions on magazine capacity. I'd also like us to encourage people to gang rush shooters, rather than following their instincts to hide; if we drilled it into young people that the correct thing to do is for everyone to instantly run at the guy with the gun, these sorts of mass shootings would be less deadly, because even a guy with a very powerful weapon can be brought down by 8-12 unarmed bodies piling on him at once. Would it work? Would people do it? I have no idea; all I can say is that both these things would be more effective than banning rifles with pistol grips."
Brilliant! You first Megan.
--twolf
I suggest we take Megan's idea seriously... and by seriously I mean gather up Megan and her cohorts in the 'we can't do anything about guns because 'second amendment rights' and throw them in front of the next shooter to be the 'bullet stoppers' she's advocating for.
Posted by: sukabi | December 17, 2012 at 10:05 PM
MeMeMeMeMeMeMeMegan really is one of the more, if not the most, buffoonish of our current crop of public intellectual buffoons, but, still and all, Tina Brown has to be even stupider, because she is the one who hired The Nation's Most Irritating and Intellectually Impaired Narcissist.
I'm betting that the time will come when Brown will be looking for opportunities to throw McArdle in front of a blazing AK-47.
Posted by: montag | December 18, 2012 at 02:47 AM
the correct thing to do is for everyone to instantly run at the guy with the gun,
After you M'dear.
Posted by: Capt. Bat Guano | December 18, 2012 at 11:23 AM