Then & Now......

There is an excerpt up over at NRO. After reading it I had to say "I was not aware of that. Remember the University of Texas Tower shooting back in 1966? Of course you do, the mainstream media will not let you forget. Yet, have you heard this angle?

He followed the class’s attention out on the mall just in time to see an Austin policeman gunned down trying to move students to a safer area next to the mall. A security officer came into the room saying someone was shooting from the top of the tower. We evacuated the classroom rather quickly. The hallway and basement were the safest places to be but I decided to go up to the top floor offices to get a better idea of what was happening.

None of the professor’s offices were occupied except for one whose door was open. As I walked down the hall toward that office the sound of a large caliber rifle thundered from that open doorway followed by two men talking. After all the bizarre events of the last few minutes it didn’t seem strange to me when I peeked around the office doorway to see one professor shooting a deer rifle at the top of tower while the other fed him ammunition. It never entered my mind to question why an English professor would have his deer rifle in his office complete with boxes of ammunition. This was Texas after all. Guns were commonplace. From the office windows, we could see the top of the tower clearly. Small puffs of smoke were coming from the rifle of the sniper on the observation deck. The large glass faced clock above the observation deck was shattered from others shooting back at him. The professor ran through several boxes of shells before running out of rounds. My ears were ringing.
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Shooting back! That's the America I grew up in. That's the America I want back. Defend yourself. Join the NRA here.

UPDATE: Glenn Reynolds aka Instapundit has a good article out today. "People don't stop killers. People with guns do"..... Read it here.