Arizona Shooting Giving the Left Reason to Attack Lots of Conservative Issues They Don't Like

In the two previous posts I looked at calls to essentially criminalize criticism of the government because crazy people might take it as a call to violence (the real crazy people are those who are trying to make the government above critique), and of course every shooting brings new calls for more gun control legislation. Some simple-minded knucklehead at Gawker, who couldn't even go two paragraphs before belching out the word "teabaggers", thinks you should have a note from a shrink before you're allowed to buy a gun:

Ask yourself which measure, had it been in place in the three years prior to the killings, would have been more likely to prevent them: A pledge from Sarah Palin to refrain from violent rhetoric, or a requirement in Arizona that all gun sales be accompanied by a note from a mental health professional certifying competence. Thousands have been demanding the former for the past two days; I haven't heard anyone propose the latter.

Because gun control is a loser. Americans would rather have occasional mass killings and some agita over political rhetoric than reasonable restrictions on the rights of crazy people to buy guns. And no politicians have the courage to try to convince them otherwise. So some nine-year-old girls have to die now and again.

This isn't to say that Palin and her ilk shouldn't be condemned for embracing murderous and treasonous rhetoric and imagery. They should. But there's nothing to suggest that Loughner wouldn't have done what he did if Palin hadn't been saying what she said.

I don't know how to explain it to these morons, but crazy and evil people don't play by the rules. You can create all the new laws you want and crazy and evil people will simply find ways around them to get their guns, if that's what they're obsession requires. Making guns harder for good citizens to get will not make us safer.

Guns are tools - nothing more and nothing less.  They may have more potential to cause mass injury than say a hammer, but at close range they're just as deadly.  If we're going to require a doctor's note to buy a gun, then we should also require one before going to Home Depot.