The media has not mentioned gun control at all. Not once.

[mudesi]

They incessantly ask "why?". They interview pop psychologists, they talk about the victims, they talk to witnesses, they put the killer's picture up, they do interviews with his friends, they "analyze" his mental state, they talk about everything, but do not dare mention the lax gun laws and the gun culture that allowed this to happen for the umpteenth time.

That would cost them viewers, ratings, and money.

What a joke.

[Mojorabbit]

1. Maybe they have it right

looking at the underlying mental health problems. Good to know they don't have an agenda.

[mudesi]

3. Of course!

Because the media has been so forthright in exposing the truth in the past. :sarcasm:

I suspect you might be the one with an agenda.

[Mojorabbit]

5. Maybe they aren't

interested in setting up strawmen arguments. No, I don't have an agenda but I do have common sense.

[mudesi]

7. Amazing

All of a sudden, the corporate media is a Bastion of Truth that isn't interested in setting up false arguments, all because you happen to support a particular view.

Welcome to the club that includes the Iraq war supporters back in 2003, the global warming deniers, the anti universal health care propagandists, and the creationists.

[Mojorabbit]

9. No

You are using this tragedy of a mentally impaired teen without adequate mental health backup who did this horrible thing to advance your agenda re gun control. He could have just as easily plowed into a crowd of people if he had not stolen the gun.

[madokie]

10. you got it

look not at the tool used but rather be concerned about the why that tool was used, somewhere there the answers can be found

[soleft]

2. I thought it was an interesting coincidence that the town

was situated near an airforce base, same as Columbine, which Michael Moore made a key point in his film.

[Odin2005]

4. Because it has nothing to do with guns.

:eyes:

[mudesi]

8. Really?

I can't detect if you're being sarcastic, although I do see the eye roll.

Did this guy kill 8 people with a sword?

[Tejas]

21. would you

then be calling for complete confiscation of all swords from sea to shining sea?

[slackmaster]

6. The Brady Campaign is carrying the water of spreading misinformation for them

30-round ammunition clips would have been illegal under the federal assault weapons ban...

Actually, they were not illegal to own, buy, sell, or use. Only to manufacture or import.

http://www.bradycampaign.org

[Freddie Stubbs]

11. You know who else isn't mentioning it?

Any of the candidates you have a shot ab being elected President. Why? They don't want to blow their chance at being elected President.

[goodgd_yall]

12. Gun control is not popular

And made more so with a gun-loving vice-president. Besides adamant gun-ownership-without-boundaries advocates are nasty when they argue.

[jmg257]

13. Same reason they don't mention how all these incidents take place in "gun free" zones.

They hold back information that is important, while falsely report on the more dramatic things they clearly don't understand like "assault rifles" and "hi-cap clips" - they are either pretty much clueless when it comes to this stuff, or just not interested in anything other then what sells.

They did mention things like "the AWB" expiring, but don't report how it wouldn't have made a difference in any of these incidents (just as it didn't when it was law).

Seems they ARE in it for the ratings, so who gives a shit about "facts"?

THEN, they talk about how much this scumbag wanted to be famous, so they go ahead and make him so.

Anyway, maybe they ARE at least smart enough to finally realize that stricter gun control isn't the correct answer. If only those crazy anti-gun nuts would catch on, and realize guns ain't the problem.

[IntravenousDemilo]

14. I propose a tax of $500 per round of ammunition,...

whether bullet, shell, whatever, with the money collected going to funding a universal, publicly funded health-care system.

That should shut the fuckers down once and for all. Go after their wallets.

[Beausoir]

15. I like it.

[IntravenousDemilo]

16. They'd certainly conserve their bullets a little better, at any rate. n/m

[michreject]

17. Then call me Robin Hood

I'll rob the tax collectors after they're finished and buy more reloading components.:evilgrin:

[slackmaster]

19. Pound sand

:D

[benEzra]

23. Not just no, but hell no.

I propose a tax of $500 per round of ammunition,...

whether bullet, shell, whatever, with the money collected going to funding a universal, publicly funded health-care system.

That should shut the fuckers down once and for all. Go after their wallets.

And just who are the "fuckers" of whom you speak?



Not just no, but HELL no.


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The Conservative Roots of U.S. Gun Control

Dems and the Gun Issue - Now What? (written in '04, largely vindicated in '06, IMO)

[Tejas]

18. earth to skynyrd: mind naming what incident you're ranting about?

"They incessantly ask "why?". They interview pop psychologists, they talk about the victims, they talk to witnesses, they put the killer's picture up, they do interviews with his friends, they "analyze" his mental state, they talk about everything, but do not dare mention the lax gun laws and the gun culture that allowed this to happen for the umpteenth time.

That would cost them viewers, ratings, and money.

What a joke."



Allowed what to happen?

[Whisp]

20. I think it's more of an issue of a mentally ill society than it is guns.

programed to be so.

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22. Perhaps it's because the media...

doesn't share your misguided logic?

[benEzra]

24. The MSM will push it as hard as they can...

just like they did in '94, '00, and '04. But the party leadership has realized that banning the most popular civilian guns in America just isn't a politically viable option.

Rifle homicides are also quite the anomaly, statistically speaking (shoes and bare hands account for twice as many murders as all rifles put together).