EDITORIAL: The forgotten virtue of firearms

Washington Times ^ | January 5, 2010 | Editorial

[JohnRLott]

During Christmas week, a registered sex offender with a conviction for attempted murder used a gun to take three hostages at a Wytheville, Va., post office. Not too surprisingly, the national media gave the crime extensive news coverage. Such sensationalism leaves a distorted image about what happens with guns every day in the United States. When guns work to stop crime, there's not nearly as much drama to sensationalize and, as a result, that much less coverage.

In Oklahoma City the previous week, an armed citizen singlehandedly stopped an attack that surely would have resulted in a multiple-victim public shooting. The media gave the event scant attention. . . .

[TASMANIANRED]

If it bleeds it leads.

Papers are in the business of distorting the truth.

[QBFimi]

How can you take hostages in a post office since guns are prohibited there? /s

[proud_yank]

During Christmas week, a registered sex offender with a conviction for attempted murder used a gun to take three hostages at a Wytheville, Va., post office.

If we have a gun registry and licensing program, criminals will no longer be able to obtain guns.

[ditto h]

Do you notice that when a person stops a crime using a gun there is no mention of it. But when a gun is used in a crime the world knows about it. They can’t wait to take our guns away.

[ARepublicanForAllReasons]

Thank goodness for the NY Post and the Washington Times. At least there is a better source for news in those cities than the better-known bird cage liners.
Golly, even liberals may catch on in time.

[XHogPilot]

bang

[MarkL]

If it bleeds it leads.

Not if it's the bad guy who's doing the bleeding, and the good guy was a law abiding citizen legally carrying a weapon

Papers are in the business of distorting the truth.

You certainly hit the ball out of the park there!

Mark

[Joe Brower]

[NewJerseyJoe]

P4L

[hattend]

What if it’s the bad guy doing the bleeding?

[litehaus]

"Papers are in the business of distorting the truth."

Dismantling, deconstructing, etc Ad Infinitum !

My hometown rag is The St.Pete Slimes...Owned by the TAX Exempt Foundation named POYNTER which teaches Lib Ideas to all its stupids,Sorry, Students.

[dljordan]

“If we have a gun registry and licensing program, criminals will no longer be able to obtain guns.”

Is that sarcasm?

[ZULU]

LOGIC would tell one, that with all the MILLIONS of legal guns out there, SOME events would occur in which a civilian gun was successfully employed to defend a citizen against a criminal.

Yet the mainstream media studiously AVOIDS printing ANY such information. Further, they have not printed such information for a very, very long time.

If ANYONE needed evidence that the mainstream media is controlled by left-wing, anti-traditional American ideologues, this is it.

[Candor7]

I am extremely virtuous.

[TASMANIANRED]

If the bad guy bleeds then he was the salt of the earth, was on the way to becoming a brain surgeon , had turned his life around, etc ad nauseum.

[Blue Collar Christian]

Golly, even liberals may catch on in time.

+++++++++++

I admire your optimism. It is not unrealistic to expect at least SOME liberals to catch on.

[TexasTransplant]

****** What if it’s the bad guy doing the bleeding? ******

Customers in the Post Office Cheer ?

TT

[proud_yank]

Yes, very much so!

[Kickass Conservative]

Next time remember the “/s” tag or you will visited by some very angry Viking Kitties. LOL