The Green Gun

Gun safety, politics, & perspective from a Libertarian leaning environmentalist. The purpose of this blog is to shed more light on the subject of safe & legal gun use in the USA with the aim of dispelling much of the fear that surrounds guns & gun ownership by those who are not familiar with firearms.

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

even gun control cannot stop spree killings

Wanna take a guess as to where the worst mass shooting spree killing in world history took place? America? Wrong. Try South Korea:


Woo had an argument with his live-in girlfriend on the afternoon of April 26, 1982.[2] Enraged, he left the house and went to the police armory, where he began consuming large amounts of whiskey. After becoming drunk, he collected an arsenal[2] including a rifle and some grenades. He left the armory around dinner time armed and drunk. Walking from house to house, he abused his position as a police officer to make people feel safe and gain entry into their homes. Then he shot the victims, or killed the entire family with a grenade. He continued this pattern for a full eight hours.[2]

Once Woo had shot a certain number of people in a village, he would run to another nearby village to continue the massacre. In the early hours of April 27, after rampaging through five villages in Uiryeong county, Woo took his final two grenades and strapped them to his body. He took three people hostage and set the grenades' fuses, killing both himself and his final victims.


For a complete list of the world's worst spree killings, just take a gander at this rather morbid website:

http://www.spreekillers.org/

2nd Place behind Woo was Andrew Kehoe, who kiled 44 people with a rifle, dynamite, pyrotol, and a blunt instrument in 1927.

Sunday, October 21, 2007

Gun Free zones?

It's basically an established fact that gun free zones have done nothing to stop school shootings.

So, how should we solve the problem? Israel has a suggestion:

Since the 1970s, on school campuses in Israel, policy requires teachers and parent aides to arm themselves with semi-automatic weapons. The result? School shootings have plummeted to zero.

Wednesday, October 03, 2007

Best Money spent all year

It's membership dues time: http://vcdl.org/

Membership was $25.
I did that, plus $25 more for the gun shop legal defense fund (to fight the attacks by Bloomberg), $25 more just for the heck of it, and $25 to the VCDL-PAC.

I had to make out a second check for the VCDL-PAC.

On the first check for $75, I wrote, "For Michael Bloomberg :)"
On the second check for $25, I wrote, "For Hillary Clinton :)"

Join bitches. They do good work in this state.