See Rule #5
Why talk about random, highly rare events that the media will cover with hours of talking heads and dire emotion for the next week? I mean, you can burn a family to death with a can of gasoline and it barely makes page 1 of state's main urban newspapers for a day (if that) but if one gangbanger pops another gangbanger it's "save the children."
Or take the Petit case, where an unarmed man was beaten to within an inch of his life, and was helpless while his wife and two daughters were raped and eventually murdered.
http://www.courttv.com/news/2007/0807/komisarjevsy_ctv.html No "armed citizen" stuff from the media there. Want to protect your family? Plant cactus in your window boxes
One more time:
1. Firearm legislation has been found to have no positive impact on crime according to the CDC (hardly a "pro gun" organization). Since criminals don't obey the law, such regulation only impacts legal, responsible gun owners. The rate of crime where legal gun owners is involved, is minimal.
2. Most crimes are criminal on criminal, and even in areas like the UK with a full ban the criminals are managing to smuggle in and acquire firearms in a growing state of increased firearm crime. Apparently even this punk acquired his firearms (a common .38 revolver and a .22) beyond the regulation of the law. Just like I'm sure a bunch of students in the same school sell and use illegal drugs that are banned in all states and in some cases like cocaine -- not even produced in the US. Yeah, bans really do work.
3 Mad gunman shootings are rare -- very rare. Lightning strike rare, though the publicity they receive would suggest blood in the streets on a daily basis.
4. Where is the call for "sensible" freedom of speech laws? Mad gunman crime simply didn't exist before the television age. The Texas bell tower guy was the first notable one in the 1960s, but then he had a brain tumor. Then came Columbine, and the media circus, and now you get the occasional sociopath that decides to go out with a media splash. Cho even sent his own press kit to NBC. Of course, sensible restrictions to the 1st is not a hot button issue for the MSM. For background, it was once not uncommon for students to bring guns to school to work on in shop class, or during hunting season or as part of marksmanship courses. No one though twice about it. What's changed? Certainly not the gun part of the deal.
5. Where's the outrage over all the children killed by alcohol? Every now and then you get 5 or so killed in one DUI pop, or a bad week with 2-3 major incidents and there's some media play -- but nobody much cares. And we have nearly a Columbine a week of our youth killed in alcohol deaths. I guess too many of us like to have a drink or two and feel punishing those who are irresponsible is enough.
Charon
