Fort Hood Massacre Whitewash Gathers Steam

The link: http://www.examiner.com/x-4525-Seattle-Gun-Rights-Examiner~y2009m11d11-Fort-Hood-aftermath-Daley-blames-guns-WA-Times-blames-Clinton

The title should be self-evident: "Fort Hood aftermath: Daley blames guns, WA Times Blames Clinton." The idiocy should also be self-evident.

" “Everyday in society,” [Chicago Mayor Richard M.]Daley said, “somebody is being killed. Unfortunately, America loves guns. We love guns to a point where that, uh, we see devastation on a daily basis. You don’t blame a group. You don’t blame a society, an immigrant community because of actions of one group...one individual. You cannot say that.” (*)

Really? How about the Nazi concentration-camp guards that shot escapees? Don't we already blame (and rightly so!) their ideology about that? So in that case, we do blame the (Nazi) society and the community of the concentration-camp guards. But here, because he was Muslim, well. It just has to be the gun's fault. Really?

" In other words, if I set my firearm down on the table, what does it do? Does the firearm get up, dust itself off, and then grow arms and legs and go out and rob somebody? We live, as most physicists now believe, in a MULTI-verse in which our universe is but one of many. So there might be a universe out there where the firearm really can grow arms and legs and go out and rob somebody. But in this universe, it can't happen. " (**)

But there have also been crimes committed by people using knives. Enter Jack the Ripper (yes, that one.) Tell me; was it the knife's fault?

What about people who commit suicide by driving their cars into lakes (with themselves inside.) Was it the car's fault? How about those who commit suicide by hanging themselves with a bed sheet? Was it the bed sheet's fault? How about those who commit suicide by overdosing on a prescribed medication? Was it the medicine's fault? Some people think so - and that's one of the reasons that medications have warning labels.

But I just love those sleep-aids that contain this warning: "WARNING: may cause drowsiness." You don't say. Yes, this is one of those 'duh' moments.

What about drunk drivers? Was it the car's fault there, too? Frankly, I blame the driver. I know plenty of social drinkers (there are a few in our Friday coffee group) who refuse to have a sip of alcohol and then drive. You read that right ... one sip of alcohol is enough for them to hand somebody else the keys.

" People commit crimes. They use a variety of weapons to do so, but people themselves commit the crimes.

" As I said, it's easy to blame the firearm, the knife, the spork, the stick. Let's not do that anymore. Let's blame the people who commit the crime, not the tools they use. " (**)


(*) - http://www.examiner.com/x-4525-Seattle-Gun-Rights-Examiner~y2009m11d11-Fort-Hood-aftermath-Daley-blames-guns-WA-Times-blames-Clinton

(**) - http://gregb1967.blogspot.com/2008/06/supreme-court-and-2nd-amendment.html