Really? You mean these armed atrocities like Wisconsin, VA Tech, Columbine etc etc. are happening in other countries too, with the same regularity? I'm trying to think of one. Um... Iraq maybe, and maybe other cases where democracy has been dropped from an aircraft at 40,000ft but the parachute failed to deploy.
Well, the funny thing is a guy can burn a family of 5 to death with arson, like happened in rural Illinois some months back, and it barely makes the news. I'm not sure it even made page one in the Chicago dailies. Yet, in our country of 300 million people where such non criminal-on-criminal firearm deaths are exceedingly rare every time there is an event it's a 24/7 a media circus.
You can add up all of these headline generating events, VT, this guy...Was the Amish event this year...no, but lets add it anyway. You still end up with fewer people killed by the "deranged gunman" than you have killed by lightning. The chance of any non gagbanger or wanna be being killed by a firearm in the US is notably less than getting killed by a receptionist with a few too many jello shots after happy hour.
We get roughly a Virginia tech every three days, and roughly two of this type of event every day (from a death and suffering standpoint) due to underage drinking. Where's the outrage?
In any case, this involved a police officer, and most countries let the police use firearms. Usually not much of a problem except when it's only the police that have guns. Khmer Rouge, Nazi Germany, Stalinist Russia, etc. But there it was more a domestic policy issue than a lone nutjob in a population of 300 million where it you turned off the news the vast majority of Americans would not know there is even a "gun violence
" problem since there is not one.
In fact, you could take away the money from the Joyce Foundation and a few elites like Soros and you would virtually eliminate the gun control movement, which is big on dollars but really, really small on grass roots interest. Most people don't care that much because, well, it's not a real issue for most people.
Charon
