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: (more…)









