"The staggering toll of young lives taken by a gunman at the Utoya youth camp reminds us all, once again, that guns are the enablers of mass killers"
Right... unlike, say box cutters or perhaps car bombs which are never used by mass killers, right? The Brady bunch completely overlooks how easy it was for some nutjob in Oslo to obtain tons of ammonium nitrate fertilizer to make a massive car bomb. It was just as easy for a guy named Tim McVeigh to load a Ryder truck with several tons of the stuff and blow the bejesus out of the Oklahoma federal building. This guy in Oslo is an amateur compared to the 168 people McVeigh killed.
The other statement was obviously issued for the thinking impaired.
"The shooting in Norway is neither a reason to condemn Norway's strong gun laws, nor to celebrate our own."
Hold on here! Aren't these the same people who, claim "our guns laws aren't strong enough! We need stricter controls" every time there is a tragic shooting? So here is a country with stronger laws that ours and they weren't enough. That begs the question of what is enough gun control? Unfortnately we know what their goal is and it's lethal.
"Whereas 84 shooting deaths in a single day is a historic event in Norway... 84 dead is essentially the everyday toll of fatal gun violence in America," the Brady Campaign said.
The Brady campaign knows very well this is a misleading comparison. Forget the cultural differences (the Brady's ignore that already). Norway has a population of 4.9 million (1.64% of ours) in a land area of 148,000 square miles. In essence, spread the population of Alabama out across Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi. There are huge differences between the two countries that account for the level of violence in each.
Missed Truths
The Brady boobs are completely blind to the truth of life's lessons. They want a nice, safe world where no one can do them harm, yet set themselves and others up as victims. To wit:
- Trust needs to be earned. The people who wet themselves in panic at the sight of a peaceful armed citizen will not even bat an eye at the presence of an armed man in a uniform. If guns somehow make people killers, then uniforms magically turn them back into "responsible" people. You really have to worry about these folks.
- You can't always run and hide from evil. No one on the island was able to stop this madman. They were too helpless to fight back. No, what stopped his killing spree was the presence of other armed men who took him into custody. In fact, as soon as he was confronted, he surrendered. How many lives might have been saved from this jackass if just one student pointed a big-bore muzzle at his forehead?
- Killers prefer weak, defenseless victims. If some nutjob wants to slaughter people like cattle the defenseless are easy prey. In Norway, their culture can barely fathom the idea of someone being so evil. As a result, by law and by their culture, adults at the youth camp were totally unprepared to defend anyone, especially the youngsters under their care.
- Reliance on others for your protection is a fatal mistake. It took police almost one hour to respond because they couldn't get to the island "in force". When seconds count, police are only
minuteshours away. - More laws can fix it. Gun control proponents will decry existing laws as "too lax" and demand more laws that can be broken almost as easily. Anyone bent on killing knows their life will be forfeit if caught, so will it really matter if he broke 17 laws instead of 16?
The Brady bunch continues to exploit the victims of tragedies and mislead the public.
I really wish they'd just go away.
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