Posted December 14, 2015 4:00 pm by Comments

By Robert Farago

(courtesy nbcnews.com)

If it bleeds, it leads. I’ve got no problem with that. As Don Henley sang, it’s interesting when people die. And important. We all want to avoid the Grim Reaper. News reports on firearms-related homicide offers us a chance to learn how to avoid that fate, both individually and as a society. On the anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School spree killing, we should take a moment to honor the innocent victims of that slaughter, and consider the meaning of that horrific event. For gun control advocates . . .

that means waving the bloody shirt to argue for civilian disarmament. NBC went particularly big on that aspect. Since Sandy Hook, an American Kid Has Died by a Gun Every Other Day is the first of two major articles on Sandy Hook posted today, this one implying that something must be done! More to their point, they want to leave readers with the impression that nothing important has been done. Yet.

Mind you, the NBC article pretended to be objective: “We talked to 10 experts on gun violence, from both sides of the political divide, to try to answer the question that inevitably arises on …Read the Rest

Source:: Truth About Guns

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