Gun Control Bill Dies in the Senate

[Gaspar]

California Special:

It comes with a backpack full of lollypops.

[patric]

Survivors recount scenes of terror dubbed 'China's 9/11' by state media
Chinese leaders vow 'iron-fisted' response after knife-wielding attackers bring carnage to a tranquil southwestern city, killing at least 29 people
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/10671498/Survivors-recount-scenes-of-terror-dubbed-Chinas-911-by-state-media.html

http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/03/02/separatists-behind-bloody-machete-terrorist-attack-that-left-33-dead-and-143-injured-in-china-officials-say/

[heironymouspasparagus]

Survivors recount scenes of terror dubbed 'China's 9/11' by state media
Chinese leaders vow 'iron-fisted' response after knife-wielding attackers bring carnage to a tranquil southwestern city, killing at least 29 people
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/10671498/Survivors-recount-scenes-of-terror-dubbed-Chinas-911-by-state-media.html

http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/03/02/separatists-behind-bloody-machete-terrorist-attack-that-left-33-dead-and-143-injured-in-china-officials-say/

It all goes back 4,000 years ago when people first started making the shift to iron from bronze....we can blame all this carnage on those people of that time who somehow thought unchecked economic growth and expansion and enhanced tools would somehow be good for the world.  And now we see how this ill-conceived proliferation of iron has inevitably led to the massacre of these people... 

One might question whether in fact it was the fault of the knife or the person wielding the device.  Well, there can be no doubt whatsoever - the mere existence of the knife must be the proximate cause of this massacre!  And steps must be taken at once to ensure this can never happen again!!  All knives must be outlawed and collected for destruction at once!!

[nathanm]

Somehow I suspect that had they been carrying firearms, 10 attackers would have managed to kill far more than 33.

[heironymouspasparagus]

Somehow I suspect that had they been carrying firearms, 10 attackers would have managed to kill far more than 33.

Perhaps.  Depends on the guns.

But the implicit - no, actually, the explicit thought behind that statement is that the lives of 33 are worth less than the lives of 34 or more would be....

The problem goes to the inherent violent tendencies present in the human animal regardless of the weapon used.  I received a link to some nut-case right wing extremist web site where the guy was "making the case" that upon review of the backgrounds of all the people involved in the most heinous school massacres - they were all found to be from liberal, permissive, Democrat families or backgrounds.  Leading to the conclusion the being Democrat is a mental illness that should result in institutionalization for the duration. 

Which is almost as absurd as the extreme left assertions that somehow guns are the problem.  Looking at the "facts", it would naturally lead us to the concept that Democrats must be denied gun ownership, and Republicans must be required to own guns.

Found it -

http://www.youtube.com/embed/FeTCkoXslsE?rel=0