What media bias against guns?
The other day, on a quiet suburban Toronto street, someone hacked a man to death with a machete. It’s possible you missed the story, because it got barely a mention in the local media.
Machetes are not top of mind with the public. Nobody is demanding stricter controls on machete sales. On the other side, nobody is defending responsible machete owners from meddlesome bureaucrats. Nobody is asking how the killer got the weapon, or why nobody noticed that he was a deranged lunatic, or whether he liked violent video games, or had a taste for Goth, or if he’d been bullied in high school. No one interviewed the neighbours to inquire how traumatized they are. No one has called for a machete registry, or mandatory sentences for machete murderers. In fact, not a single politician has raised the subject. That’s because there are no votes in machete crime.
Gun crime is a different matter. Last week’s shooting spree at Dawson College was barely over before the politicians opened fire. Spewing rhetoric randomly in all directions, they left the impression that innocent college students were being mowed down by the hundreds.
She ends with:
Personally, I hate guns. I don’t see why anyone should have one in the house unless they hunt for food — especially 25-year-old males with serious anger-management issues. But I also know that tougher gun laws don’t seem to make a difference.
Even antis see when their side is full of it. That, or our side has wised up and started doing the opposite of the I’m a gun-owner but hooey of the anti-gun crowd.
September 20th, 2006 at 2:13 am
Recently, some teens were fighting in a movie theater, and one punched the guy in the head. Subdural hematoma. He died in the parking lot. We really ought to outlaw hands, because hands kill people. The Qur’an you know says to cut them off, but that wouldn’t be right, because then we couldn’t tax hand ownership or obtain licensing fees to own hands. ‘Gotta make sure only the right kinds of people have hands. Police officers and military folks only, please!
September 20th, 2006 at 12:58 pm
Actually, I believe some of the blissninnies-in-charge in Massachusetts (or maybe just Boston) were calling for machete control a while back. After a spate of gang violence using machetes.