This article in Time today echos several others I’ve seen recently:
Ten Years After Columbine, It’s Easier to Bear Arms
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In the decade since, massacres perpetrated by deranged gunmen have continued – including the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre in which Cho Seung-Hui killed 32 people and wounded many others. But something odd has occurred. Whatever momentum the [...]
It didn’t take long for the new administration to start pushing more gun control. This time, they are trying to blame scary “assault weapons” for the violence we’ve seen in Mexico:
Mexican government officials have complained that the availability of sophisticated guns from the United States have emboldened drug traffickers to fight over access routes into [...]
I saw this somewhat amusing story today:
ALEXANDRIA, La. – An Alexandria man was recovering after accidentally shooting himself while showing his girlfriend how to handle a pistol on Saturday in the parking lot of a fast-food restaurant.
Police said the 21-year-old man told investigators he forgot he had just reloaded the gun, and squeezed the trigger [...]
That’s how one of Instapundit’s readers wryly describes last weekend’s violence in Chicago. Since guns are illegal in that city, nothing bad could ever happen there. Of course, as Rachel says: Strangely, even when things are illegal, people still do them.
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Rachel Lucas mentions an article in the New England Journal of Medicine that trots out all the typical gun-grabber baloney. This drew a most excellent fisking from one of her regular commentators:
Amazing Beliefs:
That 1 firearm owner in 10,000 will commit an act of violence in his or her lifetime, and this is far more frightening [...]
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The loser kid who shot up a mall in Omaha yesterday did so with an SKS rifle. Many of the press reports I’m seeing today are referring to this as an “assault rifle”. Repeat after me:
The SKS is not an assault rifle.
The SKS is not an assault rifle.
The SKS is not an assault rifle.
The SKS [...]
Putting up a “No Firearms Allowed” sign at the mall entrance doesn’t stop everyone from bringing guns inside — it only stops the law-abiding ones. Those law-abiding people are then left at the mercy of those who ignore the sign. This is so simple, so common-sense, yet the irony is that the left will use [...]
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I saw this headline today:
U.S. most armed country with 90 guns per 100 people
Reuters – 37 minutes ago
GENEVA (Reuters) – The United States has 90 guns for every 100 citizens, making it the most heavily armed society in the world, a report released on Tuesday said.
That just makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
Of [...]
What happens when a mass killer meets armed resistance? Surprise! The shooting spree ends. Of course, that shouldn’t be a surprise.
Many students heard the shots. Two who did were Mikael Gross and Tracy Bridges. Mikael was outside the school having just returned to campus from lunch when he heard the shots. Tracy was inside attending [...]
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In the news we see this depressing story:
BROCKTON, Massachusetts (AP) — A man lifting his infant daughter out of his car was killed in an apparent case of road rage by a motorist “who obviously exploded” and shot him four times at close range in front of dozens of witnesses, authorities said.
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Walter R. Bishop, 60, [...]