People With Guns Kill People

This little bit of info from the Pittsburgh slaying of 3 police officers makes me think the Right Wing talking points and the literal call to arms by some of the radical right like Glenn Beck are having an effect:

A man opened fire on officers during a domestic disturbance call Saturday morning, killing three of them, a police official said. Friends said he recently had been upset about losing his job and that he feared the Obama administration was poised to ban guns. [...]

Friends identified the suspect as Richard Poplawski, 23, but police would not immediately confirm his name. The gunman was arrested after a four-hour standoff, police said. [...]

Edward Perkovic said Poplawski, his best friend, feared "the Obama gun ban that's on the way" and "didn't like our rights being infringed upon."

Idiot people do idiot things but they don't need any help. How many shootings have there been in the past fews days? There should be a call for calm, but they take this tense opportunity to scare their listeners to get ratings. Sad.

And even if there were laws that addressed gun control, and even if those laws seemed unfair hypothetically, you still can't justify killing anyone. In the US, 30,000 dead, 60,000 injured from gunshots in 2004. If judged by our attitudes towards guns, we are a sick society.

There is blood on the hands of those stirring up these rumors. What Beck and company are doing is tantamount to yelling 'Fire' in a crowded theater.

Source: Washington Monthly