http://clashdaily.com/2013/01/post-newtown-time-to-just-ban-everything/
....” the Oregon mall pandemonium, for instance, a masked, AR-15-toting Jacob Tyler Roberts was halted, in part, when bystander Nick Meli confronted him with his own Glock 22 . Notice: whereas the villain used a firearm — one he’d stolen the day before, by the way — to wreak sanguinary havoc, the good guy used his to stymie it, likely diminishing the body count in the process. In this scenario, guns weren’t only part of the problem, but played a role in its solution — dismaying, no doubt,the “firearms-are-the-devil” set.
Ban guns because Sandy Hook’s Adam Lanza employed them to horrific ends? Just like December 21st’s Pennsylvania perpetrator? Then, perhaps motor vehicles should be outlawed as well — since the Keystone State killer also assaulted two of his victims with his pick-up truck . Though not widely reported, in the course of his rampage Jeffrey Lee Michael rammed head-on into not only a car, but a state trooper’s cruiser, as well. A firearm was misused. So,too, a motor vehicle. The only solution? It must be to make them both across-the-board illegal, right?
Except that — slightly complicating this tidy deduction — it turns out an off-duty cop attempted to protect the fallen firefighters with his car; an action Webster Police Chief Gerald Pickering praised as “heroic”. Hmm — motor vehicle as instrument of evil and of heroism? It’s all so very confusing. Maybe we should just stick with the former.
Which, inevitably, prompts the question: at what point do all these “bannning” proposals overreach?
People abuse bladed tools all the time — is it time for knives to be removed from general circulation? Racial-radio-huckster Al Sharpton recently suggested as much: “What happens when the criminal goes to knives … ?” a December 28 caller asked the talk host.
“Then you deal with knives,” Sharpton replied. “The job of society is to deal with whatever problem confronts it.”
For the record, Sharpton’s not alone in these anti-cutlery cogitations:the UK‘s BBC is reporting that a team of “Accident and Emergency” doctors is decrying the availability of intolerably long “domestic knives” — ie, kitchenware. Shorter blades? They should still get the nod.Not their lengthier brethren, however — time for a ban in Britain!
Thus, ixnay on the: Guns. Cars. Knives. Anything else?
Since you ask: why not matches? Accelerants?
Recall, Webster, NY’s Spengler fiendishly lured those first-responders into his ambush by staging a raging inferno. Not only did two end up dead and three more wounded, but seven homes were consumed.
What was his fuel of choice? Kerosene? Acetone?
Furthermore, in an especially macabre twist, this is the second
Christmas season in a row the Rochester suburb has experienced fire-related violence: in December 2011 a 15-year-old boy set his gasoline-doused house afire, killing his father and two brothers and injuring his mother and sister."....
....” the Oregon mall pandemonium, for instance, a masked, AR-15-toting Jacob Tyler Roberts was halted, in part, when bystander Nick Meli confronted him with his own Glock 22 . Notice: whereas the villain used a firearm — one he’d stolen the day before, by the way — to wreak sanguinary havoc, the good guy used his to stymie it, likely diminishing the body count in the process. In this scenario, guns weren’t only part of the problem, but played a role in its solution — dismaying, no doubt,the “firearms-are-the-devil” set.
Ban guns because Sandy Hook’s Adam Lanza employed them to horrific ends? Just like December 21st’s Pennsylvania perpetrator? Then, perhaps motor vehicles should be outlawed as well — since the Keystone State killer also assaulted two of his victims with his pick-up truck . Though not widely reported, in the course of his rampage Jeffrey Lee Michael rammed head-on into not only a car, but a state trooper’s cruiser, as well. A firearm was misused. So,too, a motor vehicle. The only solution? It must be to make them both across-the-board illegal, right?
Except that — slightly complicating this tidy deduction — it turns out an off-duty cop attempted to protect the fallen firefighters with his car; an action Webster Police Chief Gerald Pickering praised as “heroic”. Hmm — motor vehicle as instrument of evil and of heroism? It’s all so very confusing. Maybe we should just stick with the former.
Which, inevitably, prompts the question: at what point do all these “bannning” proposals overreach?
People abuse bladed tools all the time — is it time for knives to be removed from general circulation? Racial-radio-huckster Al Sharpton recently suggested as much: “What happens when the criminal goes to knives … ?” a December 28 caller asked the talk host.
“Then you deal with knives,” Sharpton replied. “The job of society is to deal with whatever problem confronts it.”
For the record, Sharpton’s not alone in these anti-cutlery cogitations:the UK‘s BBC is reporting that a team of “Accident and Emergency” doctors is decrying the availability of intolerably long “domestic knives” — ie, kitchenware. Shorter blades? They should still get the nod.Not their lengthier brethren, however — time for a ban in Britain!
Thus, ixnay on the: Guns. Cars. Knives. Anything else?
Since you ask: why not matches? Accelerants?
Recall, Webster, NY’s Spengler fiendishly lured those first-responders into his ambush by staging a raging inferno. Not only did two end up dead and three more wounded, but seven homes were consumed.
What was his fuel of choice? Kerosene? Acetone?
Furthermore, in an especially macabre twist, this is the second
Christmas season in a row the Rochester suburb has experienced fire-related violence: in December 2011 a 15-year-old boy set his gasoline-doused house afire, killing his father and two brothers and injuring his mother and sister."....
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