How does such a small person manage to have such a smaller mind?Bloomberg the lawless calls for gun control | WashingtonExaminer.com
July 25, 2012
Gregory Kane
Didn't you just know that the shooting in Aurora, Colo., would result in calls for more gun control laws?
Those calls went out even before the 12 dead victims were identified. I'm surprised some media outlets were able to hold off before rigor mortis had set in on their bodies.
Editors at the San Francisco Chronicle held off until the evening after the massacre -- 6:34 p.m. on Friday, July 20 -- before running an editorial titled "Tragedy shows need for gun control" on its website.
"The details of the Aurora-theater shooting are depressingly, hauntingly familiar," the editorial begins. "[T]he crowded public space, this time a midnight screening of 'The Dark Knight Rises' in a suburban Colorado movie theater. The 'lone wolf' suspect, this time a reclusive 24-year-old neuroscience graduate from the University of California-Riverside named James Holmes. The staggering number of victims: At least 12 dead and scores more wounded.
"What also rings all too familiar: the continuing cowardice of this nation's politicians on the subject of gun control."
Now some of those politicians might actually fervently believe that the Second Amendment gives Americans the right to own firearms as individuals. Memo to San Francisco Chronicle editors: The Second Amendment does precisely that, and politicians that believe such aren't "cowards." They just have an opinion on this subject that runs counter to yours.
The Chronicle editorial continued by hinting that two of the so-called "cowards" have the names President Obama and Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican nominee for president.
"Both presidential candidates rightfully mourned a senseless tragedy," the editorial continued, "but offered no solutions to stop this from happening again and again and again. The only major politician who was brave enough to point out the elephant in the room -- our nation's laughable gun-control restrictions -- was New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg ... 'Soothing words are nice,' Bloomberg said, 'but maybe it's time the two people who want to be president of the United States stand up and tell us what they're going to do about it, because this is obviously a problem across the country.' "
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