Has anyone heard the outrage and the hue and cry to ban bows and arrows? Get BOWS and ARROWS....AND HUNTING KNIVES...out of the stores now!!!
I did not think so. What's my point? I'll tell you in just a minute.
Today's news stories are full of accusations and pointing fingers in connection with Jovan Belcher's murder of his girlfriend followed later by his own suicide. Yes, he used a handgun to do both these things. So the papers, television, and Internet of course are full of cries to do away with handgun ownership rights. After all, if Jovan Belcher had not had a pistol, maybe he and his girlfriend would be alive now! Other stories tell us that the staff of the Kansas City Chiefs football team KNEW Jovan and his girlfriend were having problems, yet they did NOTHING!! Perhaps the winner for sensational journalism is the USA TODAY newspaper with its headline which incorporated a pistol into the NFL logo. But all of these media are screaming in chorus that if only guns were not available, Jovan and his girlfriend would still be alive.
Now, lets go back to the great NEED to ban Bows and Arrows, and Hunting Knives. You see, the very day that Jovan Belcher killed his girlfriend then himself, another young man in another state killed his father and the father's live-in girlfriend. But, no gun was used in that crime. Instead, a young man named Christopher Krumm walked into a community college classroom and shot his father in the head with a bow and arrow. Unbelievably, the elder Krumm was able to physically fight his son AFTER being shot with the arrow, allowing students to flee the classroom. Ultimately Christopher Krumm had to use a hunting knife to end the struggle with his father. This was of course a tragic and incredible incident.
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But I am amazed that no one is now calling for a ban on bows and arrows, and hunting knives. No one is calling for a "five day waiting period." Where is the Brady organization? Surely NOW bows and arrows have been exposed for the dangerous things they really are! Bows and arrows KILL PEOPLE!! Oh yeah, the hunting knives NEED to go, too. Think about it, really. Seriously for a minute. Can't we argue that if ONLY Christopher Krumm had not had access to a bow and arrow, his father and the father's girlfriend would still be alive? No. And everyone with any commonsense realizes this. Yet a murder-suicide that took place on the same day as the grisly bow and arrow murder in Wyoming garners so much more attention in the media. And that because GUNS were involved.
While we are at it, why stop with bows and arrows, and hunting knives? Lets ban baseball bats as well. I can recall the infamous case in which the two Menendez brothers so bravely attacked their sleeping father with baseball bats and beat the unconscious man to death. Now I think I can get back to my point. That point is that a man decided to kill his girlfriend, then himself. He chose to use a pistol to do it. On the same day, another man chose to kill his father and the father's girlfriend. Perhaps because no gun was available, he chose his bow and arrow for the job. Perhaps, though, he thought he could inflict a little more pain and suffering with the bow and arrow, before finishing his father with the same knife he had used on the girlfriend just minutes earlier. So what do we do? Do we ban everything anyone could POSSIBLY use as a weapon? That includes everything from a flower vase to a passenger jet loaded with travelers. Or do we stop and try to understand what happened here? I suggest we stop all the screaming and hype, and think about these terrible tragedies.
When we think about these things with a little bit of rationality, we realize that two people, for reasons no rational person will ever understand, decided to kill the persons dearest to them. One killer opted for what was close at hand - a pistol. The other man also opted for what was close at hand - in this case his bow and arrow set. Both men were intent on murder. Both men more than likely would have carried their evil plans through, regardless of what method of killing might have been available. But, as usual, it is the gun crime that receives all the attention. This is all the more surprising to me because of the grisly nature of the Wyoming murders.
I think the fact that no one is calling for the banning of bows, knives, vases, or whatever, makes it clear that gun-control fanatics are trying to capitalize on a high profile murder-suicide, while completely ignoring the DOUBLE MURDER/SUICIDE that did not involve a gun. I believe that the people behind gun-control efforts (those with media influence) will in fact downplay, if not suppress news of murders and other crimes when no gun is involved. I am saddened that a man decided to kill his girlfriend and himself by shooting her then himself. But I am sickened that a man literally gutted his father's girlfriend with a hunting knife, then drove to the college where his father was teaching, shot his father in the head with his bow and arrow, then finished the second murder by stabbing his father multiple times. And I say that if we who believe in the 2nd Amendment are called on to surrender our guns because of a few criminals' actions, then those same people should certainly call on all other persons to give up ANYTHING that could POSSIBLY kill ANYONE. So, let us Ban The Bows And Arrows ...NOW!!!
I did not think so. What's my point? I'll tell you in just a minute.
Today's news stories are full of accusations and pointing fingers in connection with Jovan Belcher's murder of his girlfriend followed later by his own suicide. Yes, he used a handgun to do both these things. So the papers, television, and Internet of course are full of cries to do away with handgun ownership rights. After all, if Jovan Belcher had not had a pistol, maybe he and his girlfriend would be alive now! Other stories tell us that the staff of the Kansas City Chiefs football team KNEW Jovan and his girlfriend were having problems, yet they did NOTHING!! Perhaps the winner for sensational journalism is the USA TODAY newspaper with its headline which incorporated a pistol into the NFL logo. But all of these media are screaming in chorus that if only guns were not available, Jovan and his girlfriend would still be alive.
Now, lets go back to the great NEED to ban Bows and Arrows, and Hunting Knives. You see, the very day that Jovan Belcher killed his girlfriend then himself, another young man in another state killed his father and the father's live-in girlfriend. But, no gun was used in that crime. Instead, a young man named Christopher Krumm walked into a community college classroom and shot his father in the head with a bow and arrow. Unbelievably, the elder Krumm was able to physically fight his son AFTER being shot with the arrow, allowing students to flee the classroom. Ultimately Christopher Krumm had to use a hunting knife to end the struggle with his father. This was of course a tragic and incredible incident.
,
But I am amazed that no one is now calling for a ban on bows and arrows, and hunting knives. No one is calling for a "five day waiting period." Where is the Brady organization? Surely NOW bows and arrows have been exposed for the dangerous things they really are! Bows and arrows KILL PEOPLE!! Oh yeah, the hunting knives NEED to go, too. Think about it, really. Seriously for a minute. Can't we argue that if ONLY Christopher Krumm had not had access to a bow and arrow, his father and the father's girlfriend would still be alive? No. And everyone with any commonsense realizes this. Yet a murder-suicide that took place on the same day as the grisly bow and arrow murder in Wyoming garners so much more attention in the media. And that because GUNS were involved.
While we are at it, why stop with bows and arrows, and hunting knives? Lets ban baseball bats as well. I can recall the infamous case in which the two Menendez brothers so bravely attacked their sleeping father with baseball bats and beat the unconscious man to death. Now I think I can get back to my point. That point is that a man decided to kill his girlfriend, then himself. He chose to use a pistol to do it. On the same day, another man chose to kill his father and the father's girlfriend. Perhaps because no gun was available, he chose his bow and arrow for the job. Perhaps, though, he thought he could inflict a little more pain and suffering with the bow and arrow, before finishing his father with the same knife he had used on the girlfriend just minutes earlier. So what do we do? Do we ban everything anyone could POSSIBLY use as a weapon? That includes everything from a flower vase to a passenger jet loaded with travelers. Or do we stop and try to understand what happened here? I suggest we stop all the screaming and hype, and think about these terrible tragedies.
When we think about these things with a little bit of rationality, we realize that two people, for reasons no rational person will ever understand, decided to kill the persons dearest to them. One killer opted for what was close at hand - a pistol. The other man also opted for what was close at hand - in this case his bow and arrow set. Both men were intent on murder. Both men more than likely would have carried their evil plans through, regardless of what method of killing might have been available. But, as usual, it is the gun crime that receives all the attention. This is all the more surprising to me because of the grisly nature of the Wyoming murders.
I think the fact that no one is calling for the banning of bows, knives, vases, or whatever, makes it clear that gun-control fanatics are trying to capitalize on a high profile murder-suicide, while completely ignoring the DOUBLE MURDER/SUICIDE that did not involve a gun. I believe that the people behind gun-control efforts (those with media influence) will in fact downplay, if not suppress news of murders and other crimes when no gun is involved. I am saddened that a man decided to kill his girlfriend and himself by shooting her then himself. But I am sickened that a man literally gutted his father's girlfriend with a hunting knife, then drove to the college where his father was teaching, shot his father in the head with his bow and arrow, then finished the second murder by stabbing his father multiple times. And I say that if we who believe in the 2nd Amendment are called on to surrender our guns because of a few criminals' actions, then those same people should certainly call on all other persons to give up ANYTHING that could POSSIBLY kill ANYONE. So, let us Ban The Bows And Arrows ...NOW!!!
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