Why Didn’t These Murders Make National New Last Week Too?

By Dan Zimmerman

“Two teenage brothers are in police custody on suspicion that they killed their parents and three siblings, ranging in ages from 5 to 12 years old, in their Oklahoma home Wednesday night, police said.” Wait. Five people murdered? That was the day before the Lafayette theater shooting in which the psychotic murderer only killed two (pardon us if we don’t count his suicide). As reader Scott L. wrote to us . . .

“Why was this not nationwide breaking news last Thursday? Easy…no gun was involved. It was a 5-victim, mass murder knife-crime.”

It’s almost as if knife control isn’t nearly the priority of those in media and government that gun control is. We guess the Civilian Disarmament Industrial Complex isn’t geared up to ban blades. Yet.

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