Dekalb, Illinios; another 5 dead.  Another series of killings in a gun-free zone.  Another state with stringent prohibitions against firearms ownership.  Another case where police were nowhere around to help.  And another case where no other law-abiding citizens were prepared to meet this threat to defend themselves or anyone else.

"Kazmierczak had a State Police-issued FOID, or firearms owners identification card, which is required in Illinois to own a gun, authorities said. Such cards are rarely issued to those with recent mental health problems."

It bears mentioning that we here in New Jersey also have this absurd process of the FOID.  A process that typically takes six months, criminal and mental health background checks, fingerprinting, photograph and approval by the state.  A process that (supposedly) creates a barrier to prevent those with criminal intent or tendencies from obtaining guns; a process that places our citizenry in danger by denying us the ability to carry a sidearm or other tool adequate to mount a defense in the face of an attack.

The problem is that bad guys have no such onerous prohibitions.  They simply use the most effective tool they can... a gun, a knife, a bat.  And if they don't have a gun, they'll make one with simple shop tools, lest the public think that mankind has lost the recipe for gunpowder.  They don't bother with paperwork, or the pleasantries of polite society.

Evidence that gun is achieving results counter to its intended goal mounts with every killing, mugging, rape, or other vicimization of a fellow citizen.  Yet the brain trust at Handcun Control Inc. and CeaseFire NJ still insist that despite almost 50 years of gun control and steadily rising violent crime, that yet more of the same failed policies are called for.

This flies in the face of the countervailing evidence that gun control is a failure.  According to a report by CFIF, the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy states:

"banning guns cannot alleviate the socio-cultural and economic factors that are the real determinants of violence and crime rates." ... "there is no reason for laws prohibiting gun possession by ordinary, law-abiding, responsible adults because such people virtually never commit murder.  If one accepts that such adults are far more likely to be victims of violent crime than to commit it, disarming them becomes not just unproductive but counter-productive."

That sounds to me like a patent acknowledgment that gun control, as a paradigm, has failed.  But that never deters idealogues on a mission.  They're so deeply invested in rhetoric (and fundraising) that to admit otherwise would unwravel their already twisted souls.

Albert Einstein once said “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”.  Perhaps Mr. Miller, Ms. Brady and Ray Nagins ought to see a therapist, to get over themselves.