Here's Molly: "DeLay blames all of this--the theory of evolution, birth control, small family size, day care, abortion, and moral relativism--for the shootings in Littleton. He does not blame guns. He blames liberals.
....Be it ever so sensible and self-evident, when it comes to gun control, the NRA has only one mode, the full Paul Revere: "They're going to take our guns away! They're going to take our guns away!" They throw a fit worthy of Sarah Bernhardt, start chewing the scenery and declaiming dramatically about how we'll have to pry their weapons from their cold, dead hands. I have never figured out how they manage to equate keeping Uzis out of the hands of teenagers with the death of liberty, but you can count on the NRA to put on a show that makes King Lear look like a master of understatement. I suspect they're all thwarted thespians: If we could just get them into show business we wouldn't have to listen to them carry on about how freedom is just another word for a .357 Magnum."
http://www.progressive.org/ivins899.htm""My friends in the gun-nut lobby tell me they are sick and tired of people like me using this rash of multiple killings to make points in favor of gun control - and I can sure see how they'd be getting upset about that.
So, let me use the recent unpleasantness at the Jewish Community Center in Los Angeles, to make one of their points, instead. My gun-nut friends often tell me these mass shootings wouldn't happen if more people carried concealed weapons. How right they are: If those five-year-olds in Los Angeles had just been packing, none of 'em would have gotten hurt."
I wrote the above shortly after the shootings, and didn't use it on the grounds that it was too flip for the circumstances. The reason I'm using it now is because Thomas Sowell, a right-wing columnist from the Hoover Institute, actually wrote a column in all seriousness saying, yep, the solution to these mass killings is more guns. Incredibly, he argues that the mass killings have been taking place in white, middle-class settings, and wouldn't happen in the ghettos or barrios because more folk there are packing.
I hate to tell him this, but if the murder rate in white, suburban America were the same as that in inner-city ghettos, we'd be confiscating guns by now. "
http://www.texasobserver.org/showArticle.asp?ArticleID=282"I know : 'Guns Don't Kill People.' But I suspect that they have something to do with it. If you point your finger at someone and say, 'Bang, bang, you're dead,' not much actually happens."
Yup, that's Molly Ivins...any doubt as to where she sensibly comes down on the issue?