Not my idea of common sense

It hasn't even been a year yet since a disturbed young Va. Tech. student (sick or not, I'll probably never be able to bring myself to call him a "Hokie") killed 32 students in Blacksburg, VA. Every year brings us a new crop of school shootings and several disrupted plots.

Maybe it's because I'm from a place called Planet Sanity, but I've got to believe that even the most enthusiastic gun-lover would readily concede that schools and guns don't mix.

That's not to say that there aren't plenty of deranged ideologues willing to soak you with spittle while they stand on their 2nd Amendment soapbox decrying the "slippery slope" and their absolute right to arm their second grader.

Of course, anyone that was paying attention knew that Ron Paul was one of these wild-eyed lunatics... By way of confirmation, Representative Paul has introduced H.R. 2424 - a bill that would repeal the Gun Free Schools Act and all of its amendments.

No to be absolutely clear, I'm not exactly sure what the amendments are, but I suspect they were enacted after the Supreme Court surprised everyone by rolling back the Commerce Clause when the decided United States v. Lopez in 1995. They invalidated the law, saying that the federal government could not reach so far into the business of the States without a compelling reason having to do with interstate commerce.

So...

Congress may have gone back to amend the act... or... Paul is blowing a dog whistle for his lunatic base and doing this as a symbolic gesture.

Either way, what does this have to do with Bad Virgil?

Well... there are 434 voting members f the United States House of Representatives. Many of them are far, far, far right-wing nutcases.

But...

Only one of them co-sponsored this fringe legislation. (click on "Show Co-sponsors")

That's right. Blacksburg be damned... Virgil Goode thinks it makes sense for our school children to be strapped in class.