In December 2012, while most of us prepared for a Christmas celebration, a mentally deranged Adam Lanza murdered 26 at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Numerous laws sped through the Connecticut Legislature suppressing Second Amendment rights, the school was torn down, memorials erected. The victims’ survivors have been paraded through the public consciousness continuously, the latest being with President Obama. The president wept as he recalled those children murdered.
The most significant action taken after Newtown, Conn., has been to tear down the building. Little has been done to upgrade security of the “soft targets” that are so easily preyed upon by the mentally ill and terrorists. Campuses remain open to any and all, institutions public and private disallow patrons the right of self-defense, wholly expecting that law enforcement will miraculously be instantly available or that those with criminal intent will suddenly relent because there are laws against them.
Pardon me for mentioning President Obama’s crocodile tear-stained, rose-colored glasses.
