11-29-2015, 11:38 PM
(11-29-2015, 09:19 PM)Maggot Wrote: There are tons of crazies that use other implements of destruction besides guns. They don't hit the radar screens as much as the political and liberty leaning established majority and in a lessor case the established media. A nutcase that kills an entire family via knife, poison, arson is still a nutcase no matter what tool he used to perpetrate a crime.
The dichotomy of the right and left somehow deflects the reality of situations like this. Its sad in a way.
Murder is equally deadly, regardless of the weapon used. Of course that's true.
And, a murderous nutjob is a murderous nutjob, regardless of his/her weapon of choice. Of course that's true.
But, actually, family murders garner a lot of media coverage, regardless of the murder weapons used. There are simply many fewer media stories about multiple/mass murders carried out by knife, poison, arson...because guns are used in U.S. homicides twice as often as all other weapons combined.