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Could More Guns Have Saved DIMEBAG DARRELL?

December 15, 2004

Cleveland Scene reports: Chad Baus knows what could have kept Dimebag Darrell alive: More guns.

The morning after a kook gunned down the DAMAGEPLAN guitarist and three others in a Columbus nightclub, Ohioans for Concealed Carry, proponent of the right to carry concealed weapons, was on the soapbox, decrying the state law barring guns in bars.

If each of the 250 people rocking Alrosa Villa had been packing heat that night, reasons OFCC spokesman Baus, one of them could have blown away the perp. Or at least sparked a very impressive imitation of a Fallujah firefight.

"These people were lucky, and they were lucky because there was a policeman nearby," Baus says. "Nobody's trying to say we know for sure what would have happened if a [concealed-carry] license-holder had been there, but we are saying that people deserve the right to defend themselves no matter where they are."

The moral of the story: Guns don't kill people with guns. People don't kill people with guns. Or something like that. And it's a damn shame.

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