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An article that notes gun control is losing ground (good!) is filled with quite a bit of misinformation:
This February and March, there was another round of high-profile, gun-related killings in Atlanta, Chicago, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Texas. Two dozen men, women and children as well as three of the gunmen were killed. Yet this time, there has been no widespread clamor for tighter gun control.
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The circumstances of the recent killings differ from those at Columbine in that many of the guns involved were legally obtained — or, in the case of Atlanta’s courthouse killings, taken from a law enforcement officer. But gun-control advocates, lawmakers and the families of shooting victims said this week they believe the reasons for the apparent shift in public sentiment about gun control run much deeper.
Let’s see, in Atlanta the guy took the gun from an older security guard. The Minnesota kid stole the gun from someone after he murdered them. And I recall reading the guy in the Texas shooting was prohibited from owning guns because he was a felon.
I never heard about the one in Chicago but, since most guns are heavily regulated there, I’d venture to guess it was obtained or possessed illegally.
April 11th, 2005 at 10:02 am
I believe the shooting in Chicago refers to Judge Lefkow’s husband and mother who were executed in their home with the focus being on a conenction to Mathew Hale.
From what I recall, the shooter killed himself and ended up being depressed over a ruling in some commercial matter that caused him to go bankrupt (though I could be wrong on the details of the ruling he disagreed with). In any case, if the guy didn’t have a gun, he would still have killed them which, you know, is illegal but it doesn’t seem to stop people from continuing to do it (Im just pointing that out, in case any of your readers hadn’t picked up on that fact).
April 11th, 2005 at 12:41 pm
It’s the gun-control kneejerk reflex: no matter what the circumstances, try to use any violent incident to justify taking guns away from civilians:
3) A mixed-up kid in Minnesota takes a cop’s issue guns and shoots up a school where even the security guards were unarmed. Call for gun control.
2) In a display of excessive political correctness, the Atlanta PD has one petite woman guarding a hulking accused rapist. And she has to take the cuffs off before he goes into the courtroom. He overpowers her and kills a judge with her gun. Call for gun control.
3) Terrorists armed only with boxcutters hijack four airplanes. Call for gun control.