It becomes common place for the left to reinstate its rants against guns after a killing rampage by some deranged individual, the latest being the killing at an immigration center in New York.
I was browsing through Newsbusters and came across Brad Wilmouth’s piece about ABC News crying foul that nobody in Washington was showing any sense of urgency to ban more guns.
Here’s part of that article that struck me.
Sawyer introduced a discussion with correspondent Pierre Thomas by reading a statement from the Brady Campaign complaining about the government’s lack of interest in more gun control compared to “salmonella poisoning in peanut butter crackers,” and then the two fretted over the large number of guns in circulation in America and the unlikely prospects of more gun laws being passed by Congress. Sawyer: “We keep hearing there is a gun for every man, woman and child in this country, and now they have gone up by that much more. But what about Congress? Is there any move in Congress to try to take some kind of action?”
Let’s examine the ignorance on the part of the Brady Campaign. According to this tidbit, Brady thinks that it is the same that salmonella in peanut butter requires action as does when a sick individual finds a need to kill other humans. So what did government do about salmonella poisoning? Did they ban peanut butter? No, they found the root of the problem which caused the salmonella. Peanuts don’t kill people. Idiots who can’t stop their roof from leaking and contaminating their product, kill people.
I’m sure Brady would agree that finding what caused the salmonella poisoning and correcting it is the logical route to take. So why then isn’t it just as logical to find the real reason this person opted to kill a bunch of other people and address that? That is what is known as blind ignorance.
The gun is the peanut butter. The sick individual is the salmonella. Let’s find out what caused the salmonella and not ban the peanut butter.
Tom Remington
