Gun violance?
What is the truth??
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Media and the President Ignore Mass Shootings that Never Happened
Feb. 24, 2016
The
media’s rush to support the president’s call for more gun controls
following the shooting in Kalamazoo on Saturday was breath-taking.
Sunday morning the Washington Post editorial board hurriedly issued this predictable homily:
The
United States loses far more people to gun violence – homicidal,
suicidal, accidental – than almost any other country, and this is one
reason: the easy availability of guns.
The echo chamber ramped up the meme with CBS News
recounting other mass murders recently in the news: San Bernardino;
Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon; Emanuel African Methodist
Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina; Santa Barbara,
California; the Washington Navy Yard; Newtown, Connecticut; and so on.
It was President Obama who led the parade of misdirection, blaming guns for the criminal behavior of an Uber driver on Saturday:
We
need to do more if we’re going to keep innocent Americans safe. I’ve
got to assume that all of you are just as tired as I am of seeing this
stuff happen in your states.
So,
that’s an area where we also need to partner and think about what we
can do in a common sense way, in a bipartisan way, without some of the
ideological rhetoric that so often surrounds that issue.
What
about those mass shootings that never took place or that were thwarted
in their infancy by citizens carrying concealed and taking action?
Incidents like these:
· Pearl
High School in 1997 when an assistant principal, using his personal,
privately-owned handgun, confronted Luke Woodham from killing more
students;
· Parker
Middle School in 1998 when James Strand grabbed his personal,
privately-owned shotgun and confronted a 14-year-old killer, holding him
until police arrived;
· Appalachian
School of Law in 2002 when three law students, using their personal,
privately-owned firearms, confronted and neutralized a former student
from committing additional murders of students and professors;
· New
Life Church in 2007 in Colorado Springs when Jeanne Assam grabbed her
personal, privately-owned concealed weapon and ended the threat, and the
life, of a crazed killer before he could commit more mayhem;
· New
York Mills AT&T store in 2010 when Donald J. Moore saw a potential
killer enter the store with a weapon and list of employees he intended
to kill, reached for his own personal, privately-owned sidearm and shot
and killed the criminal;
· Sullivan
Central High School in 2010 when Carolyn Gudger, a resource officer who
was allowed to carry on school grounds, confronted a gunman armed with
two handguns and neutralized the threat;
· Freewill
Baptist Church in 2012 when Aaron Guyton saw a parishioner, Jessie
Gates, pull a shotgun from his car and enter the church. Guyton pulled
his own personal, privately-owned sidearm and held Gates for police.
There’s
the Clackamas Town Center Mall attack that was neutralized by a private
citizen; the Mystic Strip Club attack that was immediately thwarted by
an armed citizen; the Austin, Texas construction site where an irate and
armed employee bent on mayhem and murder was neutralized by a
law-abiding gun-carrying citizen; the Cache Valley Hospital incident
that was neutralized by two citizens exercising their Second Amendment
rights; the Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital incident that never became a
massacre thanks to a quick-thinking doctor using his personal
privately-owned sidearm to end it.
Where was the mass media while these events were taking place?
How
does one count “prevention's,” anyway. Florida State University
criminologist has studied the matter for years, concluding that two million DGUs (defensive gun uses) occur every year in the United States.
But
since these shootings never happened, they don’t matter to those
promoting gun control. An alien with no knowledge of the war being waged
against the Second Amendment would easily conclude that the president
and the media have an agenda that causes blindness.
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Sources:
The none truthful story of much of the Mass Media: The Bad news
Now we start to see the real Truth!
Gary Kleck: How Often Are Firearms Used in Self-Defense?
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