Don’t Hide That Gun!
on 04/07/2007 at 01:23 AM
That article was straightforward reporting, though I find it amsuing that it was written by three reporters whose names are all violent verbs - pierce, clout, and peck! The top link to the What’s Your Opinion part leads to some interesting comments. You’ve got a few Brits wagging on “all guns are evil”, and another who blames everything on the USA, but quite a few who feel that the anti-gun laws there are worthless and that this latest crop won’t do a thing. Bravo for the UK commenters who point out that a large part of these crimes are committed by immigrants from more southern countries (if indeed that is true over there; I don’t know). That’s equivalent to saying that the vast amount of shootings in the US are done by urban black youths, which is absolutely true and easily provable but so un-PC as to be tantamount to suicide to utter. Such observations may not be germaine to this incident; the victim is described as a blonde so I am inferring that she was white.
This particular murder may be akin to road rage. It seems the neighbors had been bickering for a long time over parking and noise, and the shooter just lost it. Having a gun handy made his reaction only a bit easier; a hammer or a rolling pin would have made this young woman just as dead, just as quickly. I don’t think she would have had time to defend herself at all either way, unless she was in her own house with gun in hand.
Don’t the stats in Australia and DC also point the same way - restrictive gun laws and a resulting triple percent increase in violent crime?
Does that not prove that people kill people? That guns/no guns is not the issue? And that when the right to a strong and viable defense is removed the preditors become uncontrolled/unchecked and actually act on their predilections?
Or am I missing something?
We are trying to figure out how to financially acquire another gun - and we have income coming in and are considered ‘middle class’. I’ve always wondered how people in poverty 1) can afford a gun, 2) chose a gun over housing/food, and 3) why that (which is a root issue to the whole situation) is never addressed by all the bleeding heart whinning liberals.
