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Title: The Only Way to Stop a Gun is With a Gun
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URL Source: http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/51786
Published: Dec 16, 2012
Author: Daniel Greenfield
Post Date: 2012-12-16 13:33:42 by Ada
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No amount of media coverage ever stopped a man with a gun. It only encouraged him America now has its second worst mass shooting. And it, as usual, accompanied by calls for gun control. It’s no coincidence that we have had quite a few spree killings in such a short time. The lavish coverage of every shooting by the media encourages every shooter to think that he will be famous if he goes out and kills. And that is exactly what happens. Our shooters are creatures of the media, not the NRA. A media that turns killers into celebrities and then warns that the only way to stop more shootings is by cracking down on firearms. But no amount of media coverage ever stopped a man with a gun. It only encouraged him. It takes a gun to stop a man with a gun. That is the hard truth of human affairs. It is why we have a Second Amendment, it is why we have armies and police, and it is why people own guns. There is no going back to a time before people owned guns. There is no going back to a time when violence did not exist. There is only the reality that killers stalk the streets and that we can either defend against them or take comfort in empty outrage. Guns stop shootings. Not all the time and not every time, but they do. Gun control does not. Media coverage calling for gun control does not. Gun crime was up 35 percent in the UK which has harsh gun control laws. And Europe has had plenty of its own school massacres. “Figures showed the number of crimes involving handguns had more than doubled since the post-Dunblane massacre ban on the weapons, from 2,636 in 1997-1998 to 5,871.” Thomas Hamilton killed 16 children in the Dunblane school massacre in 1996 using 4 handguns. In Germany, in the Winnenden school shooting in 2009, Tim Kretschmer, killed 16 people, including 9 students. In the Erfurt massacre in 2002, Robert Steinhäuser killed 16 people with a handgun and a shotgun. In Finland, in the Jokela school shooting of 2007, Pekka-Eric Auvinen killed 8 people.In the Kauhajoki school shooting, Matti Juhani Saari killed 10 people. The media will pretend that this sort of thing only happens in America. It doesn’t only happen in America. It happens where killings do. Gun control isn’t about putting an end to horrors, it’s about controlling people. And people who are used to being controlled have even less ability to cope with the uncontrolled and the uncontrollable. Regulators think about the big picture. They don’t think about the individual. They think only about how to control people who follow rules. But shooters, by definition, do not follow rules. They are men who have stepped outside the system and care nothing for its rules. They want to kill, and they will find a way. And when they come, the only way to stop a gun is with a gun. Daniel Greenfield is a New York City writer and columnist. He is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center and his articles appears at its Front Page Magazine site. Daniel can be reached at: sultanknish@yahoo.com
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#1. To: Ada (#0)
That's it, right there. Gun control isn’t about putting an end to horrors, it’s about controlling people.
-Alex Kurtagic
#2. To: Ada (#0) (Edited)
Gun control isn’t about putting an end to horrors, it’s about controlling people. And people who are used to being controlled have even less ability to cope with the uncontrolled and the uncontrollable. Regulators think about the big picture. They don’t think about the individual. They think only about how to control people who follow rules. But shooters, by definition, do not follow rules. Or maybe some number of said shooters are following the NWO's rules. I had to wonder if the Toulouse shooting in France months ago was like a demented inside joke among them because, very soon before that, I happened to be where a rerun of the show Friends was on -- the one about Phoebe's cookie recipe that turnd out to be for Toll House cookies, only she didn't know that because it had been pronounced to her with a French accent as Toulouse. Edited for punctuation and spelling. The media will pretend that this sort of thing only happens in America. It doesn’t only happen in America. It happens where killings do.
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