It seems nearly every time someone is killed with a gun, there is someone waiting in the wings to blame the gun and not the person pulling the trigger. If there's a robbery, we need to get guns off the street. If there's a murder-suicide, we need to get guns out of the home. If there's a school shooting, we need to get guns out of the schools. Gun control is always the answer.
The gun grabbers are fanatical in their beliefs. There are no shades of gray, guns are bad and they'll ban them one at a time if they have to. Appoint an anti-gun judge to the Supreme Court and they'll applaud her "narrow interpretation" and the Second Amendment take the opportunity to denigrate those who support the Constitution as the "activist majority."
Yet when any other inanimate object is the weapon of choice for committing a crime there is not a peep from any of them.
This past Friday, two Cleveland men allegedly deliberately drove a pickup truck into a crowd of people outside of an Avon Lake bar, hitting three people. Had they driven past and fired a gun instead, the Brady Campaign would be all over the story.
Sunday morning, Lorain police responded to a complaint about excessive noise and underage drinking at a party. Several officers were injured in the drunken brawl that ensued, yet the Million Mom March isn't there calling for an alcohol ban. I guess they can learn their lesson from the failed Prohibition scheme but not from the failed "Assault Weapons Ban."
Yesterday, a man went on a stabbing spree in Brecksville, leaving one man dead and three more seriously injured. Cleveland.com merely reported the details. Had it been a shooting instead, there probably would have been editorializing about the runaway gun culture and much philosophizing by Toby Hoover of the Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence. Apparently no other form of violence is worth a whole coalition.
Whenever this point is brought up, the anti-gun crowd will always be quick to point out that knives, automobiles, feet and fists weren't made to kill people. Well, guns are made simply to propel a projectile. It is up to the person behind the trigger to decide where that projectile goes.
Blaming the object is never going to solve the issue of violence, and taking away defensive firearms only disarms the law abiding. Until the underlying causes of crime are meaningfully discussed and addressed, all the gun control in the world isn't going to solve the problem.
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- DC: Virginia gun owners should crash the party on June 9th
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- Minneapolis: Giving Judge Sotomayor a fair hearing
- National: Gun control hasn't stopped Chicago shooting deaths
- Seattle: King County SWAT had a busy weekend; 1 dead, 3 in custody
- St. Louis: Record numbers of Missourians preparing for armed self-defense
- Wisconsin: Gun rights advocates make progress
Comments
Missed one point, even when guns aren't used in violence, think Murrah Federal Building, think 9/11, the cure is always gun bans.
Gun control isn't about guns, it's about controlling helpless people, but first one must make them helpless.
I remember NY City Mayor David 'Dingbat' Dinkins on the podium after a STABBING saying "this is just more proof we need more gun control laws!"
...I've never figured out how gun control laws would have prevented a stabbing...
But then again I've never understood why we still allow the most deadly household weapon...which kills exponentially more people than guns ever has... without background checks and licensing... Evil, deadly unnecessary, swimming pools.
and as anyone with a BRAIN can tell you, the underlying cause of violence is LIBERALISM.
"Quemadmoeum gladis nemeinum occidit, occidentis telum est'('a sword is never a killer; it's a tool in the killer's hands')
-- M.A. Seneca
The above quote sums up Dan White's column, nicely.
Pete, David Dinkins doesn't have the brains Nature gave to the Bactrian camel. He's just a stupid mayor in the mold of Nagin, Hatcher, Young, Kilpatrick, Booker, Fenty and Dixon. He sucks the big one.
I know guns are blamed for killing people. Not the person pulling the trigger. It's as if guns are alive and can walk to their intended target. Last night I heard a CIA person speaking about the lunacy of the pro-abortion baby killing group. He said isn't it crazy how abortion can kill 45 million babies and the wacko dems don't care yet the wacko dems care about torturing for information terrorist that killed 3000 americans. liberalism is a mental disorder - heard that before - from what I see I agree whole heartedly. Yep, my wacko insane anti gun democrats I saw an army of guns marching down the street and I don't know where those guns where marching - you know they have a mind of their own CRAZYDEMS. PS How do you like me know. UAW stands for unemployed auto-workers. Go you big powerful fiat makers.
nuclear weapons. it wasn't us that killed all those people in japan, it was a nuke.
although, your point stands. personal accountability is important. This is not and never has been a problem of the weapon, it's a problem of morality.
another thing entirely: really restrictive gun control in an environment like the us would just spur DIY guns, probably leading to more dangerous weapons then there are now in about the same numbers.
The article asks why the Brady Campaign is not all over 2 men in a pickup driving into a crowd. The author seems to have no idea what a special interest group is about. Does he/she also complain when the NRA ignores issues not concerning guns?
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