One Child Every Other Day In Three Years

School Hires Armed Guard - Forgets His Gun In Bathroom

Ken O’Brien

“The only thing that will stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun”, or so the head of the NRA tells us.

Following this sage advice a Lapeer County Michigan school hired an armed security guard. As the local television news reported three days ago:

So what could go wrong?

The Gun Fetishists Are Going MAD

A Gun Policy of Mutually Assured Destruction?

Ken O’Brien

The Rambo wannabees pontificate to stall progress

Every one of thirty-one U.S. Senators characterized as “pro-gun” refused an invitation to appear on Sunday’s Meet The Press.

Seeking to get their view on the tragedy in Newtown, CT, the program tendered the invitations. Meet the Press producer Betsey Fischer Martin tweeted:

Sunday Photo-‘Toons 1.20

Ken O’Brien

We closed last week looking forward to the week ahead.

Unlike most of you, my untempered anticipation resulted not from looking forward to an upcoming weekend of debauchery marking the traditional end of summer.

It certainly wasn’t marked by the fact that over that weekend I would be a virtual prisoner in my own home, unwilling to risk the prospect of going out and having to try to get home behind a caravan of vehicles heading to the Woodstock Fair given the detours on routes 131 and 169. 

Who Approved This?

Ken O’Brien

Paul Zotos Photo

I am a licensed gun owner.

I am also proud to be an American and proud of our pioneer heritage.

However, I have to question the wisdom of our public decision-makers who have adopted a logo for our new Middle/High School that features one of these proud frontiersmen emphasizing the importance of guns thirteen years after the events at Columbine.

Why not show them scalping a Native American?