The American Spectator

p> RANDOM FIRE br> Re: Robert VerBruggen’s NIU Nightmare : /p> p>As long as guns and ammunition are easily available, we will continue to have tragedies like those that occurred at Columbine, Virginia Tech and NIU. Why can’t people like Robert VerBruggen dispense with the BS and simply confess that the loss of human life in events such as these are acceptable costs for our Constitutional right to bear arms? His painful analyses of what NIU did or didn’t do right, whether or not a change in the law governing high capacity magazines would make a difference, the virtues of licensed gun owners and the evils of “liberals” are all really tiresome and insipid. br> — Mike Roush br> North Carolina br> P.S. Who was the genius on Fox News who thinks packing heat on our alcohol and hormone drenched campuses is a good idea? /p>

I’m always amazed at the prognosticators of gloom and doom in the conservative movement. Is there a recessive gene within a portion of the conservative political population that leads them to desire political defeat? Do some conservatives really want to lose elections believing that it helps the movement? If they want higher taxes and more government spending I’m sure Republicans would oblige and unlike Democrats keep the nation safe.

Robert VerBruggen’s statement, “WITH AN ELECTION coming up in which a Democratic president is likely and a filibuster-proof Democratic Senate is conceivable, all this does force Second Amendment supporters to look ahead.” Hold your horses Mr. VerBruggen — you may want to lose in November, but even if your prophecy does come true I count only four Republican Senate seats at risk (New Hampshire, Virginia, Minnesota and Colorado) and 1 Democrat (Louisiana). Even if the Dems hold all their seats and take the four Republican ones at risk that leaves them four short.

Since 1980 neither party has had a filibuster proof Senate. The Democrats came close with 57 seats in the 103rd Senate and the Republicans with 55 seats in the 109th. The last time Democrats had a filibuster proof Senate the proto-Obama Jimmy Carter (America’s worst President) was in the White House, fighting with his own party, destroying the American economy, empowering fanatical Muslim extremists and allowing the U.S. to be kicked around in the world.