Dallas: A Stray Thought

Yeah, so the good guys had guns. Helped a lot, didn't it?

And, under the head "Great Minds Think Alike," I just ran across this piece by Digby:

After Newtown and Paris and every other mass shooting we were told that the answer to these problems is for more people to be armed so they can "take out" the bad guys when they start shooting. After Orlando, Donald Trump even mused on the stump that it would have been "beautiful":

“If we had people, where the bullets were going in the opposite direction, right smack between the eyes of this maniac. And this son of a bitch comes out and starts shooting and one of the people in that room happened to have (a gun) and goes boom. You know what, that would have been a beautiful, beautiful sight, folks.”

Well, in Dallas last night dozens if not hundreds of highly trained good guys with guns were unable to stop madmen from killing four of their own and injuring seven more. And it was anything but beautiful.

Point taken -- I wish.

(It occurs to me that Donald Trump is a prime example of the idea the evolution has a lot of dead ends.)

And, to offer a bit of perspective:

With thanks to Barry Sloane on Twitter.