European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 23, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday april 23 2007 stars and stripes Page 17 opinion catch a Gonzales Wolfowitz next chum in water i see dead people so Nora Eph Ron told me last week and no she want having a supernatural experience she was talking about people like Don Imus Alberto Gonza ii or i Huffington Karl Rove and John Mccain of course now you dont need a sixth sense to Tell you that Imus is at least As far As Bis radio show goes pushing up the daisies but then you didst need a sixth sense on april either it was pretty obvious that the grim reaper in the form of a phone Call from Les Moonves was soon to cometh for the Iman but there Are other dead men walking these Days As Haley Joel Osment said they dont see each other they Only see what they want to see they dont know there dead Topping the latest dead Pool Are Paul Wolfowitz and Alberto Gonzales with the former there is the supreme irony in the thing that might finally bring Down one of the primary architects of the biggest foreign policy disaster in our nations history getting a country to go to War based on lies and being partially responsible for the needless deaths of tens of thousands of people barely slowed Wolfie Down but using his position at the world Bank to help his Girlfriend land a cushy Job at the state department might get him fired sort of like Al Capone going to prison for tax evasion Gonzales meanwhile has been on political life support for weeks but apparently theres still a pulse there now that Hes testified on Capitol Hill about the us attorneys scandal Well find out whether hell soon be joining Linus in the career morgue in personally not holding my breath for the continuation of his political breath Man the president Calls Fredo soon might be swimming with the fishes of course it aint Over until if s Over some times those whose professional lives appear to have Flau ined mount miraculous recover ies take Money Honey Maria Bartiromo she was assumed to be at deaths door for weeks after questions arose about the propriety of her professional relationship with a no former Citibank bigwig but she Man aged to weather the Media firestorm who knows Imus might have done the same if he had navigated the no requisite stations of the or Cross More skilfully what if he had expressed his contrition at the altar of Oprah instead of on Rev als radio show what if he had met with the rut Gers players sooner instead of waiting All week his biggest mistake according to Nora was that he  just shut up he should have turned up at the studio monday morning apologized suspended himself walked out of the studio and checked into rehab but he  do it he  Stop talking what if before he was fired he was ensconced at promises in Malibu with a statement pledging to Deal with my de but he want and now Hes six feet under so which dead people Are you seeing these Days unfree school zone Only helps murderers Ann Coulter rom the attacks of sept 11 to last mondays school shooting after every mass murder there is an Over woehning urge to do some thing to prevent a similar attack but since Adam ate the Apple and let evil into the world de ranged individuals have existed most of the time they cant be locked up until if s too late if s not against the Law to be crazy in some jurisdictions it actually makes you More via ble As a candidate for Public office if s certainly not against the Law to be an unsociable loner if it were Ralph Nader would be behind bars right now mass murder is often the first serious crime unbalanced individuals Are caught committing As appears to be in the Case of the Virginia tech shooter the Best we can do is enact policies that will reduce the death toll when these acts of carnage occur As they will in a free and open society of 300 million people most of whom have Cable to Only one policy has Ever been shown to deter mass murder concealed carry Laws in a comprehensive study of All Public multiple shooting incidents in Ameri Ca Between 1977 and 1999 the Inesti Mable economists John Lott and Bill Landes found that concealed carry Laws were the Only Laws that had any beneficial effect and the effect was not insignificant states that Al Lowed citizens to carry concealed handguns reduced multiple shooting attacks by 60 percent and reduced the death and injury from these attacks by nearly 80 percent apparently even crazy people prefer tar gets that cant shoot Back the reason schools Are consistently popular targets for mass murderers is precisely because of All the idiotic unfree school zone Laws from the people who brought you Zero tolerance i present the unfree zone yippee problem solved Bam Bam every body hey How did that deranged loner get a gun into this unfree zone it int the angst of adolescence plenty of school shootings have been committed by adults with absolutely no reason to be at the school such As Laurie Dann who shot up Hubbard Woods elementary school in Winnetka Al in 1988 Patrick Purdy who opened fire on children at Cleveland elementary school in Stockton Calif in 1989 and Charles Carl Roberts who murdered five schoolgirls at an Amish school in Lan Caster county a last year of by the Way the other major unfree zone in America is the Post of fice but instantly on the Day of the shooting at Virginia tech the Media were already promoting gun control and preemptively denouncing right wingers who Point out that gun control enables murderers rather than stopping them liberals get to lobby for gun control but were disallowed from arguing Back that How Good their arguments Are there that Good needless to say Virginia tech is a unfree school zone at least until last monday the gunman must not have known imagine his embarrassment per haps there should be signs Virginia tech even prohibits students with concealed carry permits from carry ing their guns on Campus last year the school disciplined a student for carrying a prickly City by Scott Stantis 01 to pm Warr could vow r gun on Campus despite his lawful con Ceale carry permit if Only someone like that had been in Norris Hall on monday this massacre could have been ended a lot sooner but in january the Virginia general As Sembly shot Down a Bill that would have prevented universities such As Virginia tech from giving Sanctuary to mass murderers on College campuses in Virginia by disarming students with concealed carry permits valid in the rest of the state at the time Virginia tech spokesman Larry Hincker praised the legislature for allowing the school to disarm lawful gun owners among the faculty and student body thereby surrendering every College Campus in the state to deranged mass murderers saying in sure the University Community is appreciative of the general Assembly actions because this will help parents students faculty and visitors feel Safe on our Campus others disagreed writing last year about another dangerous killer who had been Loose on the Virginia tech Campus graduate student Jonathan Mcglumphy wrote is it not obvious that All students faculty and staff would have been safer if concealed handgun permit holders were not banned from carrying their weapons on Campus if it want obvious then it is now