John Fund @ NRO:
A few things you won’t hear about from the saturation coverage of the Newtown, Conn., school massacre:
Mass shootings are no more common than they have been in past decades, despite the impression given by the media.
In fact, the high point for mass killings in the U.S. was 1929, according to criminologist Grant Duwe of the Minnesota Department of Corrections.
Incidents of mass murder in the U.S. declined from 42 in the 1990s to 26 in the first decade of this century.
The chances of being killed in a mass shooting are about what they are for being struck by lightning.
Until the Newtown horror, the three worst K–12 school shootings ever had taken place in either Britain or Germany.
Almost all of the public-policy discussion about Newtown has focused on a debate over the need for more gun control. In reality, gun control in a country that already has 200 million privately owned firearms is likely to do little to keep weapons out of the hands of criminals. We would be better off debating two taboo subjects — the laws that make it difficult to control people with mental illness and the growing body of evidence that “gun-free” zones, which ban the carrying of firearms by law-abiding individuals, don’t work.
Like all right-wing commentaries which seek to fight limitations of gun violence, they don’t offer any legitimate solutions.
@Liberal1 (Objectivity):
And I’d suggest that liberal/progressives do not offer any “legitimate” solutions either. Taking away the rights of the law abiding citizen, because of something that was enabled and carried out by illegal means, something that was already against the law, is not a “legitimate” solution, Lib1.
What you liberal/progressives suggest is akin to wanting it to be illegal to own a car that does over 150mph, just because one of those cars was speeding over 100mph and caused an accident killing a busload of kids. Does that make a lick of sense to you?
Many of the readers have lived on the east coast. HYPOCRISY is woven into every individual. The hooker NY governor now has his own political talk show.. Ever wonder if he is still using hooker? Most politicians in washington do not have to, more than enough free meat to go around. Gun control is not the issue. impeachable conduct is the issue. You think that the homeland military is dead-guess again. Depending upon where you live-they are your neighbors or fellow employees.