This is a supplement to the thread
titled "8 year old accidently shoots himself with an Uzi"
http://able2know.org/topic/124625-1
I recently saw an article on TV
of the misadventure of a young boy who was playing basketball,
in his school 's gym. He fell over backward onto
its flat wooden floor,
sustaining rupture of a blood vessel near his spinal cord,
with internal bleeding. He rose from his fall and continued to play.
The next day he felt bad, sluggish, and his speed of movement reduced.
He lost his ability to walk. A medical doctor (specialist) told his parents
that he ‘d never walk again, tho he actually
did recover,
despite the fact that he had sustained a very severe injury.
I was struck by the difference in public reaction between
an injury that involves a gun and another injury which does not.
There has been no public outcry over use of flat wooden floors,
nor for prohibition of b"ball, for the good of our children,
as there is for recreation when guns are involved.
Q.E.D.:
its only a question of whose ox is gored.
Its only a question of reducing access of the public to defensive guns.
Its only a question of exploiting a tragedy for the purpose
of curtailing the freedom of the class of victims
of this intended loss of freedom: children.
To that, I take exception,
in that I was once a member of that class,
and I still hold it in high esteem and affection.
(
Actually, I remain a member of this class,
for which I am an undercover agent,
disguised as an ugly, fat old man.)
David
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