Post by Daniel on Oct 9, 2015 8:23:24 GMT -5
Guns don't kill people -- liberals kill people
By Tim Dunkin
October 6, 2015
By now the reader is well-aware of the recent school shooting that took place at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon. Another mass shooting, another excuse for the left-wing vultures to prey on the carcasses of the dead. Another opportunity for Pres__ent Obama to grandstand and huff and sigh and affect an air of righteous indignation. Another occasion for left-wingers to roll their eyes and complain about how even after this shooting, those dastardly right-wingers still won't support "common sense gun laws."
The reason we don't, of course, is because the left-wingers are still making the same old, nonsensical, discredited arguments that they always do. As always, the ideas they're floating yet again would do nothing to stop a mass shooting such as occurred at UCC. They propose universal background checks after a case in which the shooter passed the stringent background checks that Oregon already imposes. They want to ban "assault rifles" and "high-capacity magazines" in response to a shooting spree which involved neither. They have literally no new ideas for dealing with these mass shootings, so it's not surprising that normal people will continue to reject their "solutions." Essentially, the left-wing solution is to punish millions of people who didn't commit a crime.
But what we need to understand is that those on the Left cannot really bring themselves to deal with these shootings in a rational manner, nor can they really produce reasonable plans for preventing them in the future, simply because the policies and predilections of the liberals themselves are ultimately root causes of these mass shootings.
First and most obvious is the phenomenon of "gun free zones." Liberals love them. So do mass shooters. Whenever you hear about a mass shooting, before you learn anything else about the situation, you can be guaranteed that the venue where it took place was a gun-free zone. You don't see mass shootings at gun stores or shooting ranges for the same reason you don't see donut shops setting up franchises inside a Gold's Gym. The whole environment would render the attempt completely futile. So instead of choosing a tougher nut to crack, people like Chris Harper-Mercer and James Holmes choose places that they can be reasonably certain no one will be likely to shoot back.
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By Tim Dunkin
October 6, 2015
By now the reader is well-aware of the recent school shooting that took place at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon. Another mass shooting, another excuse for the left-wing vultures to prey on the carcasses of the dead. Another opportunity for Pres__ent Obama to grandstand and huff and sigh and affect an air of righteous indignation. Another occasion for left-wingers to roll their eyes and complain about how even after this shooting, those dastardly right-wingers still won't support "common sense gun laws."
The reason we don't, of course, is because the left-wingers are still making the same old, nonsensical, discredited arguments that they always do. As always, the ideas they're floating yet again would do nothing to stop a mass shooting such as occurred at UCC. They propose universal background checks after a case in which the shooter passed the stringent background checks that Oregon already imposes. They want to ban "assault rifles" and "high-capacity magazines" in response to a shooting spree which involved neither. They have literally no new ideas for dealing with these mass shootings, so it's not surprising that normal people will continue to reject their "solutions." Essentially, the left-wing solution is to punish millions of people who didn't commit a crime.
But what we need to understand is that those on the Left cannot really bring themselves to deal with these shootings in a rational manner, nor can they really produce reasonable plans for preventing them in the future, simply because the policies and predilections of the liberals themselves are ultimately root causes of these mass shootings.
First and most obvious is the phenomenon of "gun free zones." Liberals love them. So do mass shooters. Whenever you hear about a mass shooting, before you learn anything else about the situation, you can be guaranteed that the venue where it took place was a gun-free zone. You don't see mass shootings at gun stores or shooting ranges for the same reason you don't see donut shops setting up franchises inside a Gold's Gym. The whole environment would render the attempt completely futile. So instead of choosing a tougher nut to crack, people like Chris Harper-Mercer and James Holmes choose places that they can be reasonably certain no one will be likely to shoot back.
continue reading
www.renewamerica.com/columns/dunkin/151006
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