Arming All Good Americans

WHAD'YA WANNA BET before the end of 2015 there is at least one more shooting spree mass murder in America? Any takers? Maybe a friendly little wager for a, say, cool million? Not that I have the money, but so confident am I of the outcome, I'd borrow the money just to make this wager, with anyone. Most Americans might not want to take me up on it. Many Americans might be willing to make the same wager. Most non-Americans who pay attention to America undoubtedly would. There's still a lot of time left in the year, time to get your bets in, and also time for the dreaded but inevitable blood bath to transpire. So it seems like a pretty good bet to happen. Obviously, you can't wager that a mass murder will happen today, or within a week - but the very thought that it almost seems inevitbale that another will take place within the year is, shall we say, a tad unnerving. And you know its true. You just don't know exactly when.... And yes, at this point I would be willing to try anything to stop it, any and all solutions, mild or extreme, liberal and conservative, including arming all good law abiding Americans all the time, to make sure that the next killer is stopped. That's the conservative republican solution, isn't it? To arm all "good" law abiding Americans? Let's try it! I'm willing! It aint my solution, but my solution is not necessarily any better than anyone else's. (Actually, I'm one of those wacky liberal proponents of civilian disarmament. Go figure). Maybe we should pass a law REQUIRING all good law abiding Americans to pack heat in public. Again, what do I know? My grandfather (1888-1956) is reputed to have said: "put a gun in a man's hand, and the first thing he wants to do is use it." Meaning, any man, good or bad. It sounds like something grandfather might've said, based on what my father told me. All Iknow is, when Wyatt Earp was Sheriff in Dodge City, Kansas, THE Dodge City, Kansas, you didn't bring a gun into town. If you did, you turned it over to Sheriff Earp, and he would return it on your way out. Wyatt was damned serious about this, for some reason. Wyatt Earp was a man who knew a thing or two about guns and people, and you wonder what he knew that we don't. My personal opinion, considering what I know about my country after living in it sixty years and paying attention, is that to arm the American people much more than they already are would be to set off a nation wide ongoing shoot out at the O.K. corral, even above and beyond the rather active one we already have going on, but, hell, what do I know...