Cause and Effect

Would the Arizona shooter have gotten off as many rounds as he did if Pima County were more supportive of concealed carry weapons? Put another way, would this tragedy have been as severe if it happened in Maricopa County where Sheriff Arpaio is a defender of concealed carry?


AZCentral.com reports Sheriff Dupnik's attitude as just the opposite.
"At a Sunday news conference, Dupnik singled out [AZ State Rep.] Harper's proposed college faculty gun bill as an example of the state's lax firearm laws."
"We're the Tombstone of the United States of America," the sheriff said, referring to the Arizona town famous for once dispensing old West justice. "I have never been a proponent of letting everybody in the state carry weapons wherever they are. That's almost where we are."


I don't know if I'd want to carry if Sheriff Dupnik was going to show up at my post-incident hearing. You'd like to think you were not going to get shafted for doing the hard thing, but..


So now there will be calls for more gun control, the Brady gang will be out in force. But the Tragedy in Tucson didn't happen because someone had a gun. It happened because ONLY ONE had a gun.