Charming letter to the editor posted this morning;

[47of74]

Check out this :sarcasm: charming :sarcasm: letter to the editor that was in the local paper this morning;

First, Sarah Palin reacted as any Mamma Grizzly would, being so unfairly and so cruelly linked in the national media to the cold-blooded murder of a 9-year-old child.

Second, had there been a good guy or gal with a gun at the shooting site, lives would have been saved, injuries reduced and a mass murderer quickly dealt with.

[rfranklin]

1. The guy with the gun almost shot the wrong person...

It was actually brave people without weapons who jumped the shooter and held him down until the police arrived.

[gratuitous]

2. Don't let facts spoil a perfectly good argument

And indeed, no amount of facts will ever penetrate some skulls. At least not like a good hollow-point or black talon.

[47of74]

3. Yes, I know that

I said as much in the comments section. It's still early so the local right wing keyboard commando brigade hasn't written any responses yet, but I imagine they'll all be defending the guy and his letter and dismissing that the wrong guy almost got shot as some sort of liberal nonsense.

[Maine_Nurse]

4. Not really

The two you refer to used their shoot/no shoot judgment and did not shoot each other or anyone else. They were responsible. Also, not all of the people who restrained the shooter were unarmed.

[jtown1123]

7. Yupp!

[pipoman]

5. It isn't the duty or the purpose

of concealed carry laws to arm the public for protection of others. The purpose is to afford personal protection/self defense for the person carrying the firearm and nothing else. If during the coarse of legally carrying a firearm, a citizen is able to positively effect a criminal act...that is good.

Maybe if there had been a law enforcement presence at this meeting injuries and death could have been averted...as it is it took 15 minutes for law enforcement to get on scene and 30 minutes for EMS...and these are our paid protectors.

[kentuck]

6. Then we could have called it...

The Second Shootout at the OK Corrall...