Logical Scramble

"Where I come from, we pick locks. With your permission, I'll replace your old rusty one with a new deadbolt. The kind only .357 Magnums can open up."
--Jake Phillips (The Principal)

The Left's capacity for deranged thought process is never more evident than when it is in gun-grabbing mode. The sad school shooting in Florida last week provides another case in point. Consider, for example, this meme that circulated in the wake of the shooting:

Test your powers of logic for errors in the analogy attempted above. You might start with the fact that, post 9/11, knives et al were banned on commercial airplanes. At last check, knives, box cutters, and liquids of more than 3 oz have not been subject to nationwide bans (as the Left proposes for assault weapons).

The more fitting analogy would be this. Just as we ban knives and other life-threatening weapons (including AR-15s) on airplanes, we should ban those weapons in schools. The problem for the Left, of course, is that those weapons have been banned in most schools--including the Florida school that was shot up.

Obviously, those bans have not stopped school shootings. In fact, there is reason to believe that such bans invite school shootings.

A primary difference between the airport and school situations has been enforcement. To enforce the weapons ban on airplanes, airports have been turned into gestapo-like inspection stations. In most schools including the Florida site, no such rigorous inspection processes have been put in place.

As costly and as unpleasant as they would be, formal inspection stations would be a plausible way to improve school security. As in the commercial airline case, threat would not be eliminated--but it would be reduced. And, indeed, dialogue has escalated on this subject since last week's shooting.

Because such a remedy doesn't directly serve their gun prohibition interests, Leftists seem more likely to move on to a new logical scramble.