610 WTVN on your AM dial, Central Ohio’s conservative windbag and of course home to big fat idiot Rush Limbaugh, ran an extra number of gun sale commercials the afternoon of the Ohio State tragedy inflicted by a legal immigrant and student who lost his mind through hate. Coincidentally, interspersed among these same commercials were a lot of callers speaking angrily that if many OSU students were packing guns, the tragedy would have never happened in the first place.

The Free Press, in an effort to understand why conservatives hate immigrants, blacks and poor people so much, regularly turn into the channel’s John Corby Show in the afternoon. After shooter situation massacres, 610 seems to refrain from running gun advertisements, but they do run an abnormal number of freeze-dried food commercials for all their prepper listeners who fear the apocalypse could happen at any moment (and under President Trump, some freeze dried eggs sounds like a good idea). And while John Corby and his crew would never, ever claim to be aligned with the alt-right, they sure as heck sound like bigots when they implicitly complain about immigrants, blacks and poor people.

On the afternoon of the tragedy, 610 ran several commercials from the weirdly named Gun Envy store in Clintonville (of all places). Even weirder is how Gun Envy commercials are voiced by a young girl. She talks about the fun everyone can have by owning firearms. Like all gun stores, even the ones in suburban plazas, they sell the semi-automatic rifles that are the choice of so many crazed-shooter situation lunatics.

What the young girl does not talk about is what the Free Press reported on earlier this year: two Glock 22 semi-automatic handguns went missing from the store after shipped via US Postal Service, this according to the Columbus police. The ATF is investigating.

What John Corby also doesn’t talk about is how a lot of police officers aren’t big fans of a scenario where civilians whip out their concealed guns during a shooter situation thinking they can become the next viral vigilante hero. Yet 610 listeners blabbed and blabbed about how disgraceful it is that OSU won’t allow its many students – you know, tens-of-thousands of 18 to 21-year-olds – from having the right to a concealed carry on campus.

Oddly enough this could become a reality considering Ohio House Bill 48 is seeking to allow OSU to decide for itself if students can pack a hidden Dirty Harry six shooter. If the gun lobby gets their way with the Ohio Statehouse, you can bet your college tuition a lot of professors won’t be so inclined to give out F’s.

Jennifer Thorne, director of the Columbus-based Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence, says even though John Corby and the like are unwavering that more concealed carries would stop shooter situations, a lot of police don’t want thousands of college students doing their job.

“The issue with armed civilians during active shooter or other crisis situations is that law enforcement have difficulty determining who the bad guys are. It makes the job even harder,” says Thorne. “There is no data to back up the claim that armed civilians helps in active shooter or other crisis situations. It only introduces more guns into tense situations.”

The Free Press solutes OSU police officer Alan Horujko, who saved the university and Columbus from forever having the legacy of a mass killing by a mentally ill person. But if a number of students had suddenly brandished guns during the situation, says Thorne, one can only wonder what could have been.

“Law enforcement responded to the scene in less than one minute, and the attacker was shot and killed by a law enforcement officer within another minute after failing to comply. Now imagine if misguided but well-intentioned civilians had tried to intervene with guns,” she says. “Would the police have known who the ‘bad guy’ was? Would a plain-clothes police officer responding have been attacked by armed vigilantes? Meanwhile, the ‘Guns Everywhere’ bill, HB 48, is up for hearings this week in the Ohio Senate.”

Perhaps the most perplexing and sad mystery of our era is, how on earth did this Ohio State student become so delusional with anger? Certainly the internet’s vitriol has become a huge influence on young people – of all colors. But allowing Trump voters to speak day in, day out on how immigrants, blacks and poor people are making them miserable on one of Central Ohio’s most far-reaching radio stations doesn’t help either.

Repeated phone calls to 610 management seeking a comment for this article were not answered. We regret that we could not give them a return phone number. But in today’s world where so many act on their hate, it’s not smart to give out a name and number to so many angry people with an axe to grind – and a gun hidden under their shirt.