Four people have been murdered and at least another fourteen have been injured at the “gun free zone” of Northern Illinois University. How many more people have to die before legislators and school administrators realize that “gun free zones” are really just shooting ranges for mass murderers? To the state legislators of Illinois, and to the administrators of Northern Illinois University: Shame on you! Shame on you for disarming the law-abiding students in that lecture hall. Shame on you for ensuring that none of them had the means to quickly and relatively bloodlessly resolve the situation: a concealed firearm. The incident today could have ended like the shootings at the Colorado Springs New Life Church, or the Appalachian School of Law, or Pearl High School in Mississippi. Instead, through your idiotic anti-self-defense policies, you chose the path of Virginia Tech and Columbine. Only the relative incompetence of the murderer spared you from double-digit death figures. So shame on you. And shame on every person who would deprive individuals of their basic right to self-defense.
