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"Blame America first" crowd out in force following VT shootings

April 17th, 2007 by Double Tap

The world says yesterday’s tragedy at Virginia Tech is because of the U.S.’ “gun culture”. Here’s some examples:

“Only the names change — And the numbers,” read a headline in the Times of London. “Why, we ask, do Americans continue to tolerate gun laws and a culture that seems to condemn thousands of innocents to death every year, when presumably, tougher restrictions, such as those in force in European countries, could at least reduce the number?”

Yeah, the Brits banned nearly all forms of gun ownership. Now what do they have? Knife and gun murders - lots of them. It was so bad, PM Blair called on the country to change its culture. There’s even been calls for tougher laws to reduce knife usage and carrying. Damn, all this sounds pretty familiar, no?

So they took away one weapon, and bad guys replaced it with something else. Did they expect anything less?

From the French:

The French daily Le Monde said the regularity of mass shootings across the Atlantic was a blotch on America’s image.

“It would be unjust and especially false to reduce the United States to the image created, in a recurrent way, from the bursts of murderous fury that some isolated individuals succumb to. But acts like this are rare elsewhere, and tend to often disfigure the ‘American dream.’”

A blotch on America’s image? You guys are one to talk - you’ve got plenty of problems of your own - like a home-grown infitada. We don’t see you guys cleaning up that mess anytime soon. In fact, I would argue that your problems are here to stay, and going to get worse.

Next up - calls from within this country for “tougher gun control”. Heck, you knew that was coming! Some are saying we need to repeal the Second Amendment. Of course, liberals have been calling for the repeal for years, but this incident will really stoke those fires.

…anything that reduces the number of guns and rifles at large is a good thing.

It is also true that people, not guns, pull the trigger. But if the gunman at Virginia Tech had been armed with a knife, fewer people would have been killed.

Two of the largest mass murders perpetrated on the American public wasn’t done with guns. One was done with a truck full of explosives, the other was initiated with a handful of box cutters! If someone wants to kill a bunch of people, there’s other ways of doing it.

Unlike knives, which can used to cut food as well as people, the gun and rifle have only one purpose: to wound or kill. True, this can be a good thing if we are using the gun to stop someone else with a gun, but wouldn’t we all be better off if there were fewer of these weapons around to begin with?

We have a long road ahead whatever we do. But I would like to see police guns replaced by non-fatal weapons such as tasers, hunters limited to guns they rent and use only in designated hunting areas, and guns on the street reduced in all ways possible. We don’t need to repeal the Second Amendment to do this, but repealing the Second Amendment would make it legal.

Yeah, I’d like to be a police officer, armed only with a Taser, expected to apprehend criminals - armed with illegal weapons.

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