Guns Protecting America: My Bloody Valentine Edition

"Guns Protecting America" is an occasional feature of Pundit Nation highlighting how guns and the Second Amendment make our country safe.

In America, people continue to die because “nothing can be done.”

From JSOnline:

For the second time in less than a year, a Green Bay-based Internet gun dealer has sold equipment to a campus gunman, the dealer said Friday.

Eric Thompson said Steven Kazmierczak, the man who killed five people at Northern Illinois University on Thursday, ordered gun accessories from his firm through the Web site www.topglock.com.

Thompson's firm, TGSCOM, had sold a Walther .22-caliber handgun to Seung-Hui Cho, who killed 32 people at Virginia Tech in April.

"I'm just shocked, absolutely shocked," Thompson said. "The coincidence is uncanny."

Kazmierczak ordered two empty Glock magazines and a holster used for a Glock
handgun from the firm on Feb. 4 and received the items via FedEx on Tuesday, Thompson said. He said it appeared through a tracking record that someone other than

Kazmierczak signed for the package when it arrived at an apartment in Champaign, Ill.
Thompson said he did not know if the items were used in the attack, which ended with

Kazmierczak's suicide. The gunman carried a shotgun and three handguns, one of them a Glock, into the classroom, authorities said.

Uncanny, eh? I’m sure the families and friends of the people who died are just marveling at how uncanny the whole thing is.

While Thompson’s statements were pretty stupid and insensitive, he doesn’t begin to approach the comments offered by NIU President John Peters, who devoted a portion of his news conference the day after the shooting to praise how “professional” campus police were in merely responding to the shooting.

Again, small comfort to the victims.

It’s been a depressing month for gun violence, even in a county as violent as the United States: The shootings at the Lane Bryant Store, the boy who killed his parents and siblings with the family gun in Baltimore, the attack on a public meeting in Kirkwood, Missouri.

Even more depressing, however, is the tired mantra we always get after a mass shooting that nothing can be done. It’s a mantra repeated, this time around, by Nick Schweitzer and Peter DiGaudio.

Of course, we can do something. We can stop believing that protecting the second amendment is more important than protecting people lives.

But don’t count on that happening any time soon.

No wonder people feel helpless.