A very interesting story about the Columbine shootings in USA Today. Turns out a lot of the stuff we thought we knew was wrong. It also seems a lot of the easy answers people sought (i.e., more gun control, less violent video games, etc.) probably wouldn’t have done much to stop the killings.
May 30, 2008 • 3:14 pm 1
Morality and Authority
Peter Hitchens blogs about “Atheism, stabbings and the uselessness of centre-left politics.”
Very interesting.
Filed under: Anglosphere, Current Events, End of the World, Europe, Guns, Hippies, Politics, Religion, The West
June 30, 2006 • 11:57 am Comments Off
IANSA Money Quote
Kim provides this quote (and some excellent commentary) from the head of the International Action Network of Small Arms:
I think American citizens should not be exempt from the rules that apply to the rest of the world. At the moment there are no rules applying to the rest of the world. That’s what we’re working for. American citizens should have guns that are suitable for the legitimate purposes that they can prove. I think that eventually Americans will realize that their obsession with arming themselves in fear, in a paranoid belief that they’re going to be able to stave off the ills of the world through owning guns, through turning every house into an arsenal, eventually Americans will go away from that. I think Americans who hunt—and who prove that they can hunt—should have single-shot rifles suitable for hunting whatever they’re hunting. I mean American citizens should be like any other citizens of the world.
Because, ya know, the unarmed populations of the world have always fared well.
Filed under: Current Events, Guns, Politics, United Nations
