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This is what New Yorkers en masse really believe. And will do everything in their means to force us to submit to their perverted beliefs.
Go figure.
Fred
Go figure.
Fred
The New York Daily News:
America's gun psychosis
Editorial
Posted Wednesday, April 18th 2007, 4:00 AM
Editorial
The thing is, they're out there, just heartbeats away from going to pieces and pulling the trigger, again and again and again and again until there is bloodshed and death beyond imagining.
Here are Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, on their way to school one Colorado morning. Here is Colin Ferguson, boarding the evening LIRR after a bad day at his job. Here is Cho Sueng-hui, lost in psychotic fantasies and still able to buy ammo and a Glock 9-mm. pistol from a Virginia gun shop because that's how Virginia voters appear to believe the world should work.
And the toll keeps rising, 13 dead in Columbine, 32 dead in Blacksburg, and someday, inevitably, there will be more. Because in a country awash in 200 million guns, there have been 41 school shootings in the U.S. since 1996, taking 110 lives - almost double the total fatalities suffered in 80 other countries over the same period.
No, all those deaths might not have been avoided with even the strictest gun control laws. There's not much to be done about blind fate. But a major share of responsibility for the tally of human loss, as unearthed by the Economist magazine, rests with the gun lobby's fanatic insistence on the absolute right to bear arms, regardless of the consequences.
So rabid are the believers that more than a few argued yesterday that Cho Sueng-hui's rampage could have been cut short if only Virginia Tech did not bar students from carrying guns on campus. But that's the way Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday lived. That's the way Abe Reles and Legs Diamond lived. That not the way civilized human beings live.
The more sensible answer is not to arm ourselves daily against whatever Cho Sueng-huis might come mumbling and muttering along. The answer is to do whatever can be done to keep the Cho Sueng-huis from laying hands on guns more easily than on driver's licenses.
But so potent a political force are the fanatics that they have managed to bend to their will even Rudy Giuliani, who said yesterday, "People have the right to keep and bear arms, and the Constitution says this right will not be infringed." And they have such a firm grip on Washington that Congress won't even bring itself to ban private ownership of military-grade assault weapons, much less regulate side arms.
And more will die. Many more.
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2007/04/18/2007-04-18_americas_gun_psychosis_print.html For the compulsive