Downtown Shooting Fallout

The "cult of victimhood" is in full swing evidently. We were kind of hoping that this habit of blaming everybody except the actual perpetrator might have died out with the last century. It is one of the most lasting and damaging legacies of the 1960's.

• The gunman, 59-year-old Joe Jackson, was killed by police in Friday afternoon's murderous rampage. Jackson's family and friends have said he felt his portable-toilet-for-trucks invention had been ripped off.

As a result of these publicized reports, the families of the dead are not only burying their loved ones, they have to defend them from these accusations. Jackson took a gun, threatened his way into a place of business, and executed 3 people in cold blood. We don't care how passionately he believed himself to have been wronged, you just don't go and kill 3 people for this sort of thing.

As to preventing this from happening again, we have this from Channel 2:

• A gunman's rampage at a downtown law firm last week has gun advocates renewing an old push for a change in Illinois law.
  
  As CBS 2's Mike Parker reports, some people say more weapons will actually reduce crime.
  
  A gun rights group says the victims of Friday's tragic Loop shooting rampage might still be alive if law abiding citizens were allowed to carry concealed weapons. Richard Pearson of the Illinois State Rifle Association believes armed office workers, might have stopped it.

Of course, the Brady Law people scream about bloodshed in the streets, mass killings, "think of the children!" type tragedies. But statistics show a significant drop in crime where Concealed Carry is a reality. Law abiding citizens trained and licensed DON'T go out and kill people and DON'T store their weapons improperly where children can get them. It'll never happen in Illinois, but it's an interesting debate every so often.