Should we let a tragedy in Wyoming go to waste? Isn’t it time we enact federal knife and bow control, for the sake of the children?
The son of a Casper College professor killed his father inside a classroom on the campus after stabbing the teacher’s girlfriend to death at the couple’s nearby home, police said today.
Chris Krumm, 25, shot his father, Jim, in the head with a bow and arrow shortly after 9 a.m. Friday, Casper Police Chief Chris Walsh said. Despite being shot through the head, the elder Krumm fought back, giving the four to six students inside the class time to escape.
“The courage demonstrated by Professor Krumm is absolutely without equal,” Walsh told reporters at a press conference. “Maybe that will bring some comfort to people.”
Police don’t know exactly what followed, but said at some point, the 25-year-old suspect stabbed himself multiple times. Then he drove a large knife into the 56-year-old professor’s chest, Walsh said.
Before the attack at the college, Chris Krumm killed his father’s girlfriend, Heidi Arnold, outside her home. The 42-year-old was stabbed multiple times, and had defensive wounds, Walsh said.
This tragedy occurred on the very same day that Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher committed murder-suicide. Where are NBC, Bob Costas, Jason Whitlock and now Jim Gray, who agreed with Costas on Fox this morning, to call people who disagree with them “nuts” and call for more government intervention and less liberty? Bow hunting is a sport, after all, as is archery.
Well, the killer is not famous. Jason Whitlock has not written an idiotic column about it. Bow and arrow control is not on the left’s agenda, at least not yet. Exploiting this tragedy would take a little more work on the part of a teleprompter reader like Costas.
So…silence.
I hope readers of this article, will, as have I, forward it to Costas and Whiltlock at NBC.
If there was ever an event calling for a concealed firearm (or even open carry) in a class room, this is it.
The GF… She would be alive if she had been armed, but I think she would need to carry as a normal thing even in her own home.
– knives.
Good point!
But it’s all the fault of easily accessible firearms. It has to be. Can’t possibly be our culture.
Just look at the UK, collectively Great Britain, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, who have some of the tightest gun control laws in the world. Total ban on all handguns and severe limits on types of long arms available to private citizens. Quite literally a gun banner’s nirvana.
In 2010 the UK with a population of 60 million suffered some 1,158,957 violent crimes or 2,034 per 100,000.
In the same year the United States with 308 million experienced 1,246,248 violent crimes or 403.6 per 100,000.
I’d say do the math, but obviously folks like Costas and Whitlock cannot, so in simple terms their “solution” would appear to play a part in the UK having five times the violent crimes per capita as we in the violent heavily armed US. Or to put it in even simpler terms, gun control makes matters worse not better.