I’ve always enjoyed in school when a teacher would tie all of the years work into a few complex word problems. It felt more like “Real Life” and less like regurgitation. Also because all the problems were graded on your work in total not on just the end result you had to turn in pages and pages of computations for the teacher to follow your thought process. It was stressful, but it tied everything together.
Well now that I have you nervous that you’re about to be graded, I’m not going to be asking a question. I’m just going to be talking about an event that seems to tie the politics of Weer’d World together.
First I found this story via the usual Joyce-funded suspects on twitter linking to the Huffington Post
A gunman shot four people inside a pharmacy in a New York suburb Sunday morning, killing everyone inside the store in what police said looked like a robbery gone wrong….Police rushed to the scene after getting a 911 call from someone in the pharmacy’s parking lot. When they arrived, they found two employees and two customers dead, said Suffolk County Police Department’s Chief of Detectives Dominick Varrone. No one inside the shop survived….Police said the suspect was armed with a handgun and stole prescription drugs from the pharmacy before fleeing with a black backpack. No suspects were in custody.
So those are the relevant facts. Now I found this story via people attempting to spin this bloodbath as a need to further restrict firearm ownership. Brady Campaign and Joyce Shill Joan Peterson is well known for crowing “A Gun Killed My Sister”, as she ignores a deeply troubled, mentally ill, and abusive man that she knew quite well before his violence and madness turned the corner to murder. Mike W. links a story I hadn’t yet read on a former Handgun Control Incorporated (nee Brady Campaign) Member who’s now working for GOA.
I joined HCI because it had convinced me that guns were a root cause of violence and crime, and that only criminals owned and used them.
So there’s the stage they’ve set, and its a shaky one. One needs to look no further than the “Gun Death?” Files here on this blog. All sorts of death and horrible violence, and all I demand is that no guns be used in the commission of the crime. First I’ll note that the ONLY reason why I found this story where I did was because the killer DID use a gun. This is a “Gun Death” by those who want to restrict freedom, and so this crime is relevant to them.
But are my “Gun Death?” Files not relevant deaths to you? Of course not. If guns CAUSE crime, or guns KILL people, or if guns are the root cause of violence and crime, then how do those other crimes happen?
Its silliness of course, guns don’t cause crime, guns are USED by CRIMINALS as well as other tools to commit crimes.
Furthermore this happened in New York which is a difficult state to buy, own, and carry handguns. There are many different requirements in New York when it comes to buying, owning, and carrying handguns, outside of the federal laws for ownership nationally. I don’t think I’m making too much of a leap to assume that this murderous creature followed NOT of those laws, local or federal.
I will also point out that the ONLY gun in that shop that day was in the hand of the criminal. This is how gun controls laws work. The Bad guys get guns or other weapons (again does it matter if they are armed with a gun, or a knife, or a bat when they kill you?) while the lawful people are disarmed.
Compare it with this case where a pharmacy was robbed, but the pharmacist fought back with his own gun and the robbers left without killing ANYBODY. This pharmacist was fired for his heroic actions, and Wal-Greens pointed out that their Security Cameras were all the security their employees and customers needed.
Did you notice in the story how the Police have all the information about the crime from the security camera footage?
Also did you notice that Police responded to a 911 call and arrived too late, and to date there is no suspect in custody. The Police didn’t stop the crime, and the criminal is still on the streets.
Let that sink in, and let’s get back to the victims: The Store Employees AND the customers.
There was no talk of anybody resisting the criminal, and the criminal left with controlled substances, I assume substances that are locked up.
My point is this could have been you. Not everybody works at a pharmacy, or a convenience store, or a bank, or some other business that is frequently robbed for drugs and money. And in this particular robbery the ONLY way you could have survived is if you had fought back fierce enough to either STOP the attack, or to scare the robber off.
The best tool for such feats, no matter what your age, your strength, or your stature is a firearm.
New York’s gun laws contributed to the death of these people, rather than keep them safe as the Nanny-State liars claim. There can be no doubt that they are aware of this correlation at this point. This is as pure an example of Evil as you can find.
OK my final point is to the person to blame for all of this. A gun didn’t kill these people, nor did anti-rights laws kill them, a criminal with murder in his heart and mind killed them.
Why?
For drugs. Why did he want the drugs? To get high, or to get money from other people interested in getting high.
This crime is 100% because of the “War on Drugs”. You don’t see people getting murdered like this for Alcohol, tho that was very much the case when Alcohol was illegal, is this prohibition worth it?
One story, so many issues.
