Should we trust feds with guns? (Insider Report).

Most who oppose the individual right to armed self-defense believe that only "public servants" such as police and military personnel should be trusted to carry firearms. This assumes that government personnel--unlike civilians--are paragons of sober propriety. Two recent news stories illustrate that this is hardly the case.

On September 17th, John Harrison, a vice president at Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield in New York City's Times Square, summoned two co-workers to his office. "As soon as the pair got in his office, Harrison whipped out two handguns and opened fire as horrified office workers dived under desks and fled from cubicles," reported the New York Daily News. One of the victims, Isabel Munoz, was hit "nearly a dozen times with shots from a Glock 9mm and a .45-caliber revolver." The other, Vincent LaBianca, "was shot twice in the back of the head, and died sitting up in an office chair." Harrison finished the rampage by inserting his 9mm into his mouth and pulling the trigger.

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