The very sad and tragic shooting in Wisconsin will again provide another opportunity for the “Gun Control” advocates to exploit the issue and call again for restrictions on gun ownership and purchases. The statistics cited in support of this viewpoint of course skews the data, and is cherry-picked to affirm their point of view. It ignores that the vast majority of gun crime is committed by minorities against other minorities; not by white male Teaparty members, or that in the hands of anyone deranged and motivated, anything will suffice as a weapon – such as the genocide in Rwanda that was carried out by machete.
I came across this tongue-in-cheek overview of the “Gun Control” demands and thought I would repost.
In the wake of the ‘Batman murders’, a concomitant crime has been forgotten. It is a different sort of crime, one that most of us have become utterly desensitized to: a crime against communication. James Holmes’ spree shooting triggered not only the predictable round of editorials in support of gun control, but also a media-wide wave of grisly verbal decapitations. Hack writers across the country have seized upon the opportunity to live up to their name, taking up their dull, ink-tipped machetes and chopping away at thevalence of key words in their narratives. Here lies one of the most noticeably dismembered verbs:
In 1 year, GUNS murdered 35 in Australia, 39 in England and Wales, 194 in Germany, 200 in Canada, and 9,484 in the United States.
Guns! Guns murdered 35 in Australia! Packs of wild AR-15s, thirsting for blood, roam the deserts of Australia, magazines stocked, sights scoping out innocent humans to brutally murder for the thrill of the hunt.
One can imagine Steve Irwin recoiling in horror upon walking into a momentarily unattended Glock nest, littered with shell casings and the bones of unlucky youths. A baby revolver peers over the top of the nest, cylinder spinning. Crikey! But, of course, such terrible beasts are not limited to the antipodes…
Every weekend in cities like Philadelphia, Chicago a war zone due to guns.Could we devote every ounce of civic energy 2 ending gun violence?
in wake of #aurora let’s please remember that many cities are prisoners to regular gun violence and it’s mostly ignored by national media
Prisoners to regular gun violence. It can happen here! Rampaging herds of feral guns roam the streets of Detroit as we speak, breeding like rabbits, spreading like rats, and hungry for the taste of human flesh! Wild gangs of pistols battling for territory every weekend have turned Chicago into a war zone! What can be done? (continue reading)
