Post by Woody Williams on Feb 16, 2008 20:43:01 GMT -5
Guns & media : Surprising editorial -- straw in wind?
Pro-gun editorial from RTD following NIU murders
www.inrich.com/cva/ric/opinion.PrintView.-content-articles-RTD-2008-02-16-0014.html
Now, Illinois Saturday, Feb 16, 2008 - 12:09 AM
Many Virginians are still in mourning over the massacre
at Virginia Tech last April. To them, and to the thousands more
for whom the massacre is still a painful memory, the shooting
Thursday at Northern Illinois University that left five innocents
dead must have seemed a ghastly echo.
To the trenchmen in the gun-control wars, of course, it
is something else: ammunition. Here in Virginia, where the
General Assembly recently rejected yet again a proposal to close
a supposed loophole regarding gun shows, activists may try to
exploit the timing of the Illinois tragedy -- just as they tried
to exploit the tragedy at Tech.
That would be unwise. As a press release from the
Illinois governor's office reported on July 29, 2005:
"Taking an aggressive stand against gun violence,
Governor Rod R. Blagojevich, joined by Chicago Mayor Richard M.
Daley, today signed legislation that closes the gun show loophole
that allowed gun buyers to avoid comprehensive background checks.
Senate Bill 1333, sponsored by Sen. John Cullerton (D-Chicago)
and Rep. Harry Osterman (D-Chicago), requires gun sellers at
firearm shows to request background checks for potential gun
purchasers. The new law takes effect immediately."
That law is just one of the many regulations controlling
firearms in Illinois. Others include mandatory waiting periods,
background checks, and presentation of a Firearms Owner's
Identification Card, or FOID. Closing Virginia's "loophole" would
not have stopped Seung-Hui Cho. Closing
Illinois' loophole did not stop Thursday's gunman, Steven
Kazmierczak. Restricting the rights of millions of law-abiding
gun owners is not the proper way to prevent the deranged from
committing acts of madness.
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Another possible straw in the wind :
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15111438/
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What these two sites have in common is that both are very
unexpected instances of someone actually starting to think. One
way to describe the problem all along has been that one side is
based on reasoning and the other on emotion -- or, iow, that one
thinks and one feels.
Pro-gun editorial from RTD following NIU murders
www.inrich.com/cva/ric/opinion.PrintView.-content-articles-RTD-2008-02-16-0014.html
Now, Illinois Saturday, Feb 16, 2008 - 12:09 AM
Many Virginians are still in mourning over the massacre
at Virginia Tech last April. To them, and to the thousands more
for whom the massacre is still a painful memory, the shooting
Thursday at Northern Illinois University that left five innocents
dead must have seemed a ghastly echo.
To the trenchmen in the gun-control wars, of course, it
is something else: ammunition. Here in Virginia, where the
General Assembly recently rejected yet again a proposal to close
a supposed loophole regarding gun shows, activists may try to
exploit the timing of the Illinois tragedy -- just as they tried
to exploit the tragedy at Tech.
That would be unwise. As a press release from the
Illinois governor's office reported on July 29, 2005:
"Taking an aggressive stand against gun violence,
Governor Rod R. Blagojevich, joined by Chicago Mayor Richard M.
Daley, today signed legislation that closes the gun show loophole
that allowed gun buyers to avoid comprehensive background checks.
Senate Bill 1333, sponsored by Sen. John Cullerton (D-Chicago)
and Rep. Harry Osterman (D-Chicago), requires gun sellers at
firearm shows to request background checks for potential gun
purchasers. The new law takes effect immediately."
That law is just one of the many regulations controlling
firearms in Illinois. Others include mandatory waiting periods,
background checks, and presentation of a Firearms Owner's
Identification Card, or FOID. Closing Virginia's "loophole" would
not have stopped Seung-Hui Cho. Closing
Illinois' loophole did not stop Thursday's gunman, Steven
Kazmierczak. Restricting the rights of millions of law-abiding
gun owners is not the proper way to prevent the deranged from
committing acts of madness.
----- -----
Another possible straw in the wind :
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15111438/
----- -----
What these two sites have in common is that both are very
unexpected instances of someone actually starting to think. One
way to describe the problem all along has been that one side is
based on reasoning and the other on emotion -- or, iow, that one
thinks and one feels.