Lee Mallette

Yes, I've been thinking that the Bend shooting turned into the graboids' worst nightmare, and it keeps getting more so as people process it. Oregon has an A- rating from Giffords. That means its laws were already doing almost everything that the graboids claim should prevent mass shootings. But obviously didn't. Giamfranco is soft spoken, articulate, and photogenic. There's no dismissing him as a scary redneck. And he's not a veteran or a hunter or anything, just an ordinary family guy who stepped up. He popped the bad guy with surgical precision. He didn't hit a bystander, and he didn't get shot himself either by the bad guy or the cops. Of course this is usually the way it goes, but most people who aren't gun-culture themselves don't know that. The obvious questions is raises are: if gun control didn't work in Bend, why would it work anywhere? And if an ordinary chill dude can step up to save lives when the laws failed, what kind of idiot do you have to be to want to stop that from happening? What is it the kids say nowadays? Ah, yes. Cope, seethe, and mald, graboids. This intervention was everything you hate, and that's good news for the rest of us.