Shots in the dark
I was walking back to my room in Alexandria, Virginia, after a wedding Saturday evening, ask empty, if the snipers could call one of my students to take advantage of me. I would have an easy target, especially in front of the hotel.Instead, he was elected pocket some poor fellows come from a Ponderosa restaurant Around the same time. It is the adoption, it is not Copycat shooting, frankly, it is surprising that our recent Folk anti-hero is not inspire imitators.
But as he had the bad taste to save me, let us note some important points about our society, that the phenomenon shows snipers and the mainstream media are ignored.
Firstly, the police could be much closer to Fang’s Killer, if we had a national database of ballistics strengthen the capacity of its weapons. Rifles have a unique “fingerprint” left boxes Shell. Record keeping of them would not be more difficult than that of humans records fingerprints, especially in an era of the computer.
But several occasions Congress has refused to implement and not on it now. Why? Simply because the National Rifle Association and its allies are determined to prevent. The gun nuts not only do not want any restriction of personal weapons of mass destruction, they want the government able to discover a.
In a fair, it is not because the roots of psychos as Sniper. That’s because many of them really think they can fight at any given time, a guerrilla war against their own government to defend. Others fear that a “communist” government could, if it is a list of possession of pistols, to decide their weapons away.
We leave this paranoia through the police services and for two reasons: money and power. Given that the NRA has a lot of money and is also good in the lobbying practice he always gaining ground.
Worse yet, Sane and human dignity were largely abandoned, even tried to elephants. Long ago, most “practical” political calm that accepts any type of weapon is not reasonable, and thus not try.
The situation as a fact that is exactly the same as it was with civil rights for many years, until the early 1960’s. Moderate and liberal everywhere hated the fact that millions of blacks were gelyncht, humiliated, and not even treated as citizens in the south. This has been extremely effective political propaganda for our enemies abroad. But good people have every reason to believe that nothing could ever change, that the federal government could never do it judiciously, as racists, with age and service Filibuster, a handful of iron U.S. Senate.
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