"Background checks for people wanting to buy guns in Colorado jumped more than 41 percent after Friday morning's shooting at an Aurora movie theater, and firearms instructors say they're also seeing increased interest in the training required for a concealed-carry permit.

"It's been insane," Jake Meyers, an employee at Rocky Mountain Guns and Ammo in Parker, said Monday.

When he arrived at work Friday morning — just hours after a gunman killed 12 and injured 58 others at the Century Aurora 16 theater — there already were 15 to 20 people waiting outside the store, Meyers said."

So now everyone at a movie theater or the grocery store or driving down the street is going to be armed? More than they already were, at least. This just brings us closer to heightened security everywhere.

I heartily wish this idiot from California had stayed there. Well, actually, I wish he'd never been born. Sounds harsh, but that's how I feel.