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From: Aaron Russo's America: Freedom To Fascism
Date: Apr 22, 2007 6:56 PM
I'm disgusted.
I'm disgusted with the fashion which the media is negotiating the terms of the Virginia Tech Massacre. The way the media is currently portraying Cho is almost as a sympathetic anti-hero. The caricature the media has devised of Cho is morally noisome at worst, preferring rather to limn a adumbrate of a lost and emotionally wayward man-child rather than the flagitious cockroach he was - one whose head should've been crushed under heel and who's body should have been allowed to die a protracted death across two weeks of desiccation. And if this journalistic slant continues then they're going to inspire others like Cho, motivated by the knowledge that their actions will not live in infamy, but in the annals of human sympathy as tragic heros.
What I find even more minatory than the Virginia Tech Massacre is the bravado the politicians are mustering over on Capital Hill, under the pretext of the Virginia Tech Massacre no less, to inveigh more effectively against our rights guaranteed by the 2nd Amendment.
Here is an interesting statistic I heard on the news the other day: of 100% of all murders committed 70% involve guns.
However, something occured to me. The majority of people aren't astute enough to not avoid connecting one to the other, when in fact to draw a causal line between guns and murder is to commit a logical fallacy. The fallacy is called Cum Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc, otherwise known as the joint effect. Simply stated, the fact that 70% of murders are committed with guns does NOT mean that one is the cause of the other or that the other is the cause of one. Said more simply, it's absurd to posit that GUNS murder 70% of all murder victims. When viewed from this perspective the assertion the statistics are attempting to foist off become arrantly insipid. That's like asserting that because 70% of all instances of over-eating use silverware, forks and knives are to blame for the epidemic of obesity here in the States, and should consequently be abolished.
As with the obesity epidemic here in the States, it's stupid to blame it on forks and knives. The problem isn't forks and knives. The problem is the mindset that finds nothing wrong with snarfing down nine pieces of pizza. Abolishing forks and knives will do nothing to eradicate the problematic mindset. Contemporaneously, as with the obesity epidemic, it's equally absurd to blame the murder epidemic on guns. The problem isn't guns. The problem is the appetite for murder - the will to kill innocent people.The problem is that there are people so infuriated by life in our culture that the only way they can realize a manumit to their frustrations is to lash out violently by killing those who are flourishing as a result of the cultural strictures. So stripping law-abiding citizens of their guns does nothing to extirpate the murderer mentality.
What it does achieve, however, is leaving more law abiding citizens at the mercy of burglars, rapists and other ethically pusillanimous scumbags who armed themselves illegally through a black market spawned of a firearms prohibition. Were guns outlawed, I know for a fact that the murder rate wound not decrease remotely. I can promise that the 70% out of all those murdered which was previously comprised of gun slayings would in turn transmogrify to exceedingly exotic forms of murder. How can I be so certain? It is like I said before: the problem is the murderer mentality, and not the guns themselves. Therefore, we wouldn't see any less of the problem by treating something else other than the problem. Rather, what we could expect to see is the void of that 70% filled with more stabbings, more chokings, more bludgeoning, etcetera.
Cho premeditated his massacre in detail. Cho placed chains bound by a combination lock on the doors so that no one would escape. Do you think outlawing guns will stop a man of this resolve to slaughter innocent civilians? A man that Hell bent on chaos and destruction, who doesn't care if he lives or dies, most certainly will not care about comparatively trivial consequences such as the legal hardships he'll be imputed with from buying a gun via the black market. Could you imagine any legitimately disturbed individual saying to himself, "Guns are outlawed!? Damn! I guess that means there's no mass murder in my cards for the evening; think I'll go play Tetris instead!"
And now, World News...
25 years murder-free in 'Gun Town USA'
Crime rate plummeted after law required firearms for residents
Kennesaw, Ga., City Hall
As the nation debates whether more guns or fewer can prevent tragedies like the Virginia Tech Massacre, a notable anniversary passed last month in a Georgia town that witnessed a dramatic plunge in crime and violence after mandating residents to own firearms.
In March 1982, 25 years ago, the small town of Kennesaw – responding to a handgun ban in Morton Grove, Ill. – unanimously passed an ordinance requiring each head of household to own and maintain a gun. Since then, despite dire predictions of "Wild West" showdowns and increased violence and accidents, not a single resident has been involved in a fatal shooting – as a victim, attacker or defender.
The crime rate initially plummeted for several years after the passage of the ordinance, with the 2005 per capita crime rate actually significantly lower than it was in 1981, the year before passage of the law.
Prior to enactment of the law, Kennesaw had a population of just 5,242 but a crime rate significantly higher (4,332 per 100,000) than the national average (3,899 per 100,000). The latest statistics available – for the year 2005 – show the rate at 2,027 per 100,000. Meanwhile, the population has skyrocketed to 28,189.
By comparison, the population of Morton Grove, the first city in Illinois to adopt a gun ban for anyone other than police officers, has actually dropped slightly and stands at 22,202, according to 2005 statistics. More significantly, perhaps, the city's crime rate increased by 15.7 percent immediately after the gun ban, even though the overall crime rate in Cook County rose only 3 percent. Today, by comparison, the township's crime rate stands at 2,268 per 100,000.
This was not what some predicted.
In a column titled "Gun Town USA," Art Buchwald suggested Kennesaw would soon become a place where routine disagreements between neighbors would be settled in shootouts. The Washington Post mocked Kennesaw as "the brave little city ? soon to be pistol-packing capital of the world." Phil Donahue invited the mayor on his show.
Reuters, the European news service, today revisited the Kennesaw controversy following the Virginia Tech Massacre.
Police Lt. Craig Graydon said: "When the Kennesaw law was passed in 1982 there was a substantial drop in crime ? and we have maintained a really low crime rate since then. We are sure it is one of the lowest (crime) towns in the metro area." Kennesaw is just north of Atlanta.
The Reuters story went on to report: "Since the Virginia Tech shootings, some conservative U.S. talk show hosts have rejected attempts to link the massacre to the availability of guns, arguing that had students been allowed to carry weapons on campus someone might have been able to shoot the killer."
Virginia Tech, like many of the nation's schools and college campuses, is a so-called "gun-free zone," which Second Amendment supporters say invites gun violence – especially from disturbed individuals seeking to kill as many victims as possible.
Cho Seung-Hui murdered 32 and wounded another 15 before turning his gun on himself.
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
From: Aaron Russo's America: Freedom To Fascism
Date: Apr 22, 2007 6:56 PM
I'm disgusted.
I'm disgusted with the fashion which the media is negotiating the terms of the Virginia Tech Massacre. The way the media is currently portraying Cho is almost as a sympathetic anti-hero. The caricature the media has devised of Cho is morally noisome at worst, preferring rather to limn a adumbrate of a lost and emotionally wayward man-child rather than the flagitious cockroach he was - one whose head should've been crushed under heel and who's body should have been allowed to die a protracted death across two weeks of desiccation. And if this journalistic slant continues then they're going to inspire others like Cho, motivated by the knowledge that their actions will not live in infamy, but in the annals of human sympathy as tragic heros.
What I find even more minatory than the Virginia Tech Massacre is the bravado the politicians are mustering over on Capital Hill, under the pretext of the Virginia Tech Massacre no less, to inveigh more effectively against our rights guaranteed by the 2nd Amendment.
Here is an interesting statistic I heard on the news the other day: of 100% of all murders committed 70% involve guns.
However, something occured to me. The majority of people aren't astute enough to not avoid connecting one to the other, when in fact to draw a causal line between guns and murder is to commit a logical fallacy. The fallacy is called Cum Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc, otherwise known as the joint effect. Simply stated, the fact that 70% of murders are committed with guns does NOT mean that one is the cause of the other or that the other is the cause of one. Said more simply, it's absurd to posit that GUNS murder 70% of all murder victims. When viewed from this perspective the assertion the statistics are attempting to foist off become arrantly insipid. That's like asserting that because 70% of all instances of over-eating use silverware, forks and knives are to blame for the epidemic of obesity here in the States, and should consequently be abolished.
As with the obesity epidemic here in the States, it's stupid to blame it on forks and knives. The problem isn't forks and knives. The problem is the mindset that finds nothing wrong with snarfing down nine pieces of pizza. Abolishing forks and knives will do nothing to eradicate the problematic mindset. Contemporaneously, as with the obesity epidemic, it's equally absurd to blame the murder epidemic on guns. The problem isn't guns. The problem is the appetite for murder - the will to kill innocent people.The problem is that there are people so infuriated by life in our culture that the only way they can realize a manumit to their frustrations is to lash out violently by killing those who are flourishing as a result of the cultural strictures. So stripping law-abiding citizens of their guns does nothing to extirpate the murderer mentality.
What it does achieve, however, is leaving more law abiding citizens at the mercy of burglars, rapists and other ethically pusillanimous scumbags who armed themselves illegally through a black market spawned of a firearms prohibition. Were guns outlawed, I know for a fact that the murder rate wound not decrease remotely. I can promise that the 70% out of all those murdered which was previously comprised of gun slayings would in turn transmogrify to exceedingly exotic forms of murder. How can I be so certain? It is like I said before: the problem is the murderer mentality, and not the guns themselves. Therefore, we wouldn't see any less of the problem by treating something else other than the problem. Rather, what we could expect to see is the void of that 70% filled with more stabbings, more chokings, more bludgeoning, etcetera.
Cho premeditated his massacre in detail. Cho placed chains bound by a combination lock on the doors so that no one would escape. Do you think outlawing guns will stop a man of this resolve to slaughter innocent civilians? A man that Hell bent on chaos and destruction, who doesn't care if he lives or dies, most certainly will not care about comparatively trivial consequences such as the legal hardships he'll be imputed with from buying a gun via the black market. Could you imagine any legitimately disturbed individual saying to himself, "Guns are outlawed!? Damn! I guess that means there's no mass murder in my cards for the evening; think I'll go play Tetris instead!"
And now, World News...
25 years murder-free in 'Gun Town USA'
Crime rate plummeted after law required firearms for residents
Kennesaw, Ga., City Hall
As the nation debates whether more guns or fewer can prevent tragedies like the Virginia Tech Massacre, a notable anniversary passed last month in a Georgia town that witnessed a dramatic plunge in crime and violence after mandating residents to own firearms.
In March 1982, 25 years ago, the small town of Kennesaw – responding to a handgun ban in Morton Grove, Ill. – unanimously passed an ordinance requiring each head of household to own and maintain a gun. Since then, despite dire predictions of "Wild West" showdowns and increased violence and accidents, not a single resident has been involved in a fatal shooting – as a victim, attacker or defender.
The crime rate initially plummeted for several years after the passage of the ordinance, with the 2005 per capita crime rate actually significantly lower than it was in 1981, the year before passage of the law.
Prior to enactment of the law, Kennesaw had a population of just 5,242 but a crime rate significantly higher (4,332 per 100,000) than the national average (3,899 per 100,000). The latest statistics available – for the year 2005 – show the rate at 2,027 per 100,000. Meanwhile, the population has skyrocketed to 28,189.
By comparison, the population of Morton Grove, the first city in Illinois to adopt a gun ban for anyone other than police officers, has actually dropped slightly and stands at 22,202, according to 2005 statistics. More significantly, perhaps, the city's crime rate increased by 15.7 percent immediately after the gun ban, even though the overall crime rate in Cook County rose only 3 percent. Today, by comparison, the township's crime rate stands at 2,268 per 100,000.
This was not what some predicted.
In a column titled "Gun Town USA," Art Buchwald suggested Kennesaw would soon become a place where routine disagreements between neighbors would be settled in shootouts. The Washington Post mocked Kennesaw as "the brave little city ? soon to be pistol-packing capital of the world." Phil Donahue invited the mayor on his show.
Reuters, the European news service, today revisited the Kennesaw controversy following the Virginia Tech Massacre.
Police Lt. Craig Graydon said: "When the Kennesaw law was passed in 1982 there was a substantial drop in crime ? and we have maintained a really low crime rate since then. We are sure it is one of the lowest (crime) towns in the metro area." Kennesaw is just north of Atlanta.
The Reuters story went on to report: "Since the Virginia Tech shootings, some conservative U.S. talk show hosts have rejected attempts to link the massacre to the availability of guns, arguing that had students been allowed to carry weapons on campus someone might have been able to shoot the killer."
Virginia Tech, like many of the nation's schools and college campuses, is a so-called "gun-free zone," which Second Amendment supporters say invites gun violence – especially from disturbed individuals seeking to kill as many victims as possible.
Cho Seung-Hui murdered 32 and wounded another 15 before turning his gun on himself.
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
posted by Gandolfo at 4/22/2007
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