Gun laws should be revisited

Perhaps if our gun laws were different, the Virginia Tech massacre might not have happened as it did. While there were some who speculated that Virginia laws made buying guns too easy. I disagree. The system has failed; not because gun laws were too relaxed but because gun laws are too screwed up. What if, rather than banning guns, guns would be allowed to properly licensed persons. What if, instead of making campus "gun-free" zones, you allowed teachers and properly trained students to carry concealed weapons?
It would ahe been entirely possible that the brave Israeli professor wouldl lhae been able to stolp the funman before the other 30 students were shot. If you consider how out of touch this sad, sick person was, he did not need an easy way to get guns. He spent a lot of time planning this, and it's doubtful any silly gun laws would have stopped him.
However, I do see a real need for guns. If the brave Israeli professor would have been allowed to have carried a concealed weapon, he might still be alive. Perhaps he would have been able to kill the shooter before the other 31 students were slaughtered.

Bill and Hill meet Obama at the polls

What has many bumfuzzled is that Ms. Hillary, the one-time clear front runner whom many assumed would, in fact, become the first woman president of the United States, is no longer clearly a front-runner. It’s a wide-open race for the 2008 presidential campaigns. So said one political analyst last week in referring to Sen. Hillary Clinton’s recent plunge at the polls.

It’s not scientific, but I have a theory about Hillary. First of all, the campaign doesn’t mean much to the voting public. (Yawn.)

Secondly, what is causing at least some of Hill's headaches and heartaches? (Besides Bill, that is?) It is my theory that Ms. Clinton’s troubles have something to do with Ms. Pelosi.

How could that be, you ask? Nancy Pelosi is the speaker of the house. But, she also has appointed herself the unofficial international representative of women everywhere, an impromptu ambassador de jour.

She has gone too quickly from being America’s Homecoming Queen to trying to bring peace to the world. Her overtures seem out of place, coming as they did, so soon after she left the kitchen.

Perhaps her goodwill world tour would have looked better if she had given some time to first getting her own House in order before spending time in the House of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

At any rate, what does all this globetrotting have to do with Bill and Hill? Well, I think it has something to do with the fact that the American public might be getting these two women confused. It’s nothing intentional, of course, but here we have two sharply dressed, independent women who are extremely proud of their motherhood.

One is America’s Homecoming Queen and the other America’s Mom.

Or course, Ms. Pelosi is not running for president. She is merely telling the president how he should be doing his job. When the president did not listen after she told him the voters demanded he change his Iraq policy, boy did she show him! She just got on a plane and went over there to talk to those people. Now that’s a go-getter.

Perhaps it is that go-to attitude that scares people. If Nan will do this as she was just elected speaker of the house, what would Hill do if she were actually elected president?

This “listen, Buster, I’m talking to you” attitude in Ms. Pelosi might have voters worried about the other mother in the campaign.

This could leave the door open for Obama. It’s wait and see until November 2008. -