Gun laws didn't stop Utah shooter

Here is one reason why I'm glad I got my Concealed Carry permit (CCW) - I only wish fewer places were off-limits to carrying.

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This guy is a perfect example of why more gun laws are NOT the solution to such episodes. He had a shotgun...not an evil semi-automatic assault weapon (otherwise known as diabolic death hose)...and even rabid anti-gunners admit that shotguns have a place among the hordes of small game hunters throughout the country. He also was illegally carrying a .38 caliber pistol (age for ownership is 21.) He walked into a mall with these items concealed (broke another law there...tsk! tsk!) and opened fire. He killed six people and wounded four.
A call to 911 didn't stop the gunner...it was an off-duty police officer, out on a date, who happened to be carrying his weapon. He engaged the guy in a gun battle and pinned him down until help arrived.
The police are NEVER going to be able to arrive quickly enough to stop such an act...the best defense is provided by armed law-abiding citizens who have passed the background checks and training requirements to receive their CCW.
More laws only hinder those who are predisposed to obey them.

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LGF ponders whether this is another case of Sudden Jihad Syndrome (hat tip LGF), something the police and mainstream media habitually fall all over themselves to disguise.
Young, male Muslim...violent rampage with car, gun, bomb, other tool of destruction...it's becoming a very common story here and worldwide. I'm not anti-Muslim...I am, however, anti Jihadi Muslim. I object most strongly to people who are trying to kill me and my family. Islam needs to get its house in order with regard to the hate spewed by some of its imams and the destruction caused by its young radicals or risk guilt by association and the inevitable consequences.
In the meantime, I've got my CCW and this (and others) to provide some measure of defense.

Is our soft civilization doomed?

There was an interesting article by Selwyn Duke in the American Thinker about the hurdles western civilizations, particularly the United States, face when dealing with the spread of the Islamic culture. From the article:

“People may laugh. That's crazy, say they, we have the greatest military in the world, the most advanced technology, and a nuclear umbrella. Yes, that's true. But first, I don't claim we'll fall tomorrow, next month, or next year. Even more significantly, though, external enemies would not initiate our undoing. The fact is that no body, no matter how strong, imposing and well-armored, can survive an untreated disease metastasizing rapidly within. The smallest bacteria can kill giants as easily as dwarves.

And that is what ails us. Every time an action designed to preserve western civilization is taken or even proposed, a great internecine battle ensues. We capture combatants on the battlefield and then spend millions in legal fees debating whether to adjudicate their cases in civil or military courts. We rightly scrutinize Imams making a scene at an airport and then spend millions more arguing about so-called "racial profiling." And it's incessant. Every act nowadays, from singling out illegals for deportation and the suspicious for scrutiny to getting swatted by "Tigger" to a six-year-old boy giving a girl a peck on the cheek, is met with hand-wringing and a disproportionate reaction. And far too often litigation results, costing us valuable resources.“

While I agree wholeheartedly with his assessment of the situation, and have said the same thing in previous posts, I have faith that the bulk of the American people will wake to the danger before it is too late. We’re a fickle people…as prone to swing from a largely coddling worldview to one of bloodthirsty vengeance.

Read the whole thing…it’s well worth it.