4 thoughts on “The Gun Boom Continues”

  1. I think I’m going to go buy another M&P this weekend and maybe a Glock 17. Why not.

  2. Media focuses on tragic anomalies–“if it bleeds, it leads”–and avoids topics that challenge deeply held assumptions. The Zimmerman case plays to the audience’s belief in cliches (and seems in this case to provide support for some of them), so hyping the story makes it an easy sell. Flash mobs in Philly beating up disabled veterans plays to cliches that make more people uncomfortable, so what doesn’t sell papers (or clicks these days) is quickly dropped.

    At the end of the day, neighborhoods are safer where home owners own guns, streets are safer where people legally entitled to carry arms do so, and, yes, there will always be accidents and those who abuse the privileges of citizenship, but individual failings do not support an argument for collective punishment or collective endangerment of the public through restrictions on the right to own and carry weapons.

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