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Once again a nutter cuts down innocent people and no one asks why he had a "large assault-type rifle" in his possession, as reported by KENS 5 TV. Thanks to rapid news cycles and gun lobby spin, the public accepts the occasional masked, armed shooter in its movie theaters and malls as the price we pay for a "free society" and our "gun rights." Hey--another day another murder/suicide.
Another Downtrodden Gun Owner by Martha Rosenberg
Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher shoots his
girlfriend in front of his own mother and drives to Arrowhead Stadium to shoot
himself in front of team officials? These things happen.
What Background Check? by Martha Rosenberg
TSA agent mowed down at the Cleveland Hopkins Airport
parking lot three days ago by her estranged husband who then kills himself? What
are you going to do?
The gun lobby has so convinced people that laws against
civilians owning military, rapid fire weapons (and all the ammo they can buy)
violate our "rights," no carnage jolts people out of their NRA
trance. 33 dead at Virginia Tech and other school shootings? 70 gunned down at
Batman movie? Arizona Congressperson Gabby Giffords and Kirkwood, MO mayor,
public works director and council members shot? Hey, collateral damage in the
fight to protect our "gun rights."
The gun violence is becoming so over the top it barely makes
the Nightly News or delays the shopping, movie or football game. No one even
asks anymore, "The gunman was carrying WHAT?"--or "The firearms
dealer sold a weapon to WHO?"
In 2009, an Illinois pastor was shot in church through the Bible he was holding . The same year, a gunman dressed as Santa killed nine on Christmas Eve in Covina, CA. Last year there was another Santa killer. What will happen this year?
And there's another question people should be asking. Why are these gun nuts, who make sure the EZ gun laws stay on the books, so cowardly and scared? As Ring of Fire talk show host Mike Papantonio says, do these people need a "shot of testosterone" or what?
Every day millions of people, including children, old people and 110 pound women get to their destination without being strapped. Here in Chicago, millions board public transportation to get to their job, unarmed! Surprise. Yet these burly, mustachioed "tough" guys, who always seem to be the ones who are so gun-obsessed, are afraid to go to work, into a national park or near a school yard without heat.
And they are winning. Yesterday, the same day Christmas
shopping was interrupted by a gunman at an Oregon mall, the U.S. Seventh
Circuit Court of Appeals said Illinois' ban on carrying a concealed weapon in
public is unconstitutional. Illinois is the only state to ban conceal and
carry. Make that was.
