Arizona governor veto gun bill
School shooting
Sometimes Common Sense can't help but wonder whatever happened to common sense? Is evolution at fault? Is it the politics and values of the lunatic fringe? How did we get here?
On a positive note Arizona Republican governor Jan Brewer has the great good sense to veto the a bill that would have allowed guns on college campuses. Having attended and taught at universities the notion of an armed student or instructor frightens Common Sense. On one hand I remember a professor that had to be restrained by city police after threatening a women student in class in front of other students! On the other I remember an instructor that required campus police protection when a student threatened her over a grade. The student was eventually bared from campus, arrested, and placed in a mental institution. Common Sense believes that adding a gun into these matters would make them worse, much worse, than they otherwise were.
As to the school shooting Common Sense can't begin to understand how a responsible gun owner could ever leave a weapon, never mind a loaded weapon, where a child could access it! That strikes Common Sense as irresponsible to the point of civil and possibly criminal reckless endangerment.
As a point of reference Common Sense has no issue with guns or gun ownership. Weapons are useful for sport and, sadly, occasionally necessary for self defense. But simple common sense dictates that they are dangerous by their very nature. As such common sense should apply to their storage and to where and when they are used.
With a nod to Thomas Paine, Baron d'Holbach, and "Captain Obvious" perspectives on what should be, but remarkably often isn't, obvious common sense.
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