Boston Globe: Mass killings proliferate as Congress fails to control guns

[ProGun]

Cancelled my subscription last week for that POS rag.

 

[rwl1955]

baby boomers and liberals

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Yup, like me. I read the Wall Street Journal on Saturday and the Sunday Globe mainly for the sports writers.

 

[NickyBangBang]

how can they even write something like that with a straight face?

I totally agree with ya BattleSnail; but they are mindless, brainwashed sheep with no "common sense" who throw away their freedoms for "safety." Our founding fathers are crying right now.

 

[crazymjb]

Meanwhile FBI statistics show that 2.4 MILLION crimes (rapes, murders, burglaries, robberies, home invasions, car jacking, etc.) are prevented each year by firearms in the hands of private citizens. Yet that little fact gets no attention from the Globe at all.

In fact assuming the Globe statistics are even correct (33,000 people will die from gun violence in murder or suicide) and I'm not sure that they are....... That means that for every "murder or suicide" 72.72 crimes have been prevented and lives saved by firearms in the hands of private citizens.

In other words - the Boston Globe is fill of shit....

Oh - by the way - that means 6,575 crimes EACH DAY are prevented by firearms in the hands of private citizens - according to FBI statistics.

Link to said FBI stats?????

Mike

 

[l3uddha]

who wrote the article? I can't find an author listed...

 

[jefftk]

The NRA controls politicians with "lavish campaign contributions".... riiiiiiight. Nevermind those millions of voting NRA members. And don't ask about MAIG and Bloomberg's campaign contributions either.

 

[RHJJ]

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Yup, like me. I read the Wall Street Journal on Saturday and the Sunday Globe mainly for the sports writers.

You support a liberal rag?

 

[Knuckle Dragger]

There have been a plethora of these hand-wringing "In the wake of Newton, etc. Congress has done nothing" kinds of year-end stories. The biggest problem with them is the disconnect between the identified problem and the desired solution.

These stories generally run in the form of "After tragedies A,B & C, Congress has not done X,Y & Z. The problem, of course is that solutions X,Y & Z are not logically connected to acts A,B & C and would not have prevented them. This disconnect is a major impediment to getting main street America on board with more gun control. At some level most people recognize that the sound-bite solutions advocated by the Brady bunch would not have changed the outcomes of any of these shooting incidents. What they consistently fail to produce is the figurative 'smoking gun'. They cannot demonstrate how a specific regulatory void allowed one of these tragedies to occur. Until they do that there's not a conversation to be had.

who wrote the article? I can't find an author listed...

It's an editorial. It represents the view of the paper's editorial board. Very common.

The NRA controls politicians with "lavish campaign contributions".... riiiiiiight. Nevermind those millions of voting NRA members. And don't ask about MAIG and Bloomberg's campaign contributions either.

"Lavish contributions" my ass. The NRA and the rest of the so-called 'gun lobby' are pikers when it comes to dispensing largess to members of Congress. Gun related money to members of Congress is a drop in the bucket compared to what industries like Pharma, Energy, Finance, and Medicine spread around Capitol Hill. The significant difference between the NRA and the really big spenders in Washington is that the NRA represents people - individual enfranchised voters - not corporate interests. If anything the NRA represents a much purer execution of the First Amendment's right to petition the government than does most of the money that goes to Congress.