While that may have stopped hordes of network producers from stalking around the gun show looking for the cheapest video shot, the reaction wasn't about to be diluted. The Conservative News Service reported last week that the two teen assassins broke eighteen separate federal and state gun laws in the Columbine High School massacre. But you can't expect these questions to be asked by journalists who explicitly declare that guns should be banned. Many of them now acknowledge that gun-control laws aren't doing the job, but they want guns outlawed anyway. I mean, for example, we're talking about limiting people to one gun purchase, or handgun purchase a month.
Nobody needs one.
The media and much of American society are making a serious mistake when they make the mental leap of assigning blame for a crime committed with guns to those who advocate the rightful, lawful ownership of guns. The NRA has never advocated the right to mow down innocent bystanders with firearms. The media's marination in doctrinaire liberalism becomes crystal clear when you compare the two. Over the weekend, an unsafe Arkansas tourist boat drowned 13, the same number of victims as died at Columbine High. You can understand how this story can't compete.