2008 Woodie Awards
Memorial lacks any substance
By: Sean Martin
Issue date: 4/16/08 Section: Forum
Today is the one-year anniversary of the barbaric act of violence at Virginia Tech.
On this day, a group will be protesting across the nation by having a "lie-in" of 32 people to memorialize the innocent killed by evil.
Personally, if this event were to stop here at this juncture, everything would be fine. This was a tragic event that should never be forgotten or minimized.
Instead, the deaths of 32 people are being used to push a broad political agenda that has nothing to do with Virginia Tech.
They call themselves ProtestEasyGuns. Sadly, very few things mentioned by this group have anything to do with Virginia Tech in any way, shape or form.
They claim to stimulate discourse, but at the same time call for tougher laws - as does their backer, the Brady Campaign.
Wouldn't this be more of a lecture than a discourse?
I encourage all of you to take my hand so you don't get lost. If I say something you can't comprehend, I'll spell it phonetically and draw pictures for you.
The first part of their agenda is to "close the gun show loophole." I think this is pretty important because it is under the section titled "What We Want" on their Web site.
Quite puzzling is the fact that few of their "wants" have anything to do with Virginia Tech.
Apparently, the private sale of firearms at gun shows is bad. This allows all bad guys ranging from MS-13s to SPECTRE to obtain their firearms.
This "loophole" is such a problem that Seung-Hui Cho went to a federally licensed dealer (not a gun show) and bought his firearms on the up and up; at a place of business.
They might also want to gloss over the fact that in 2001 (the most recent year available year) Department of Justice study showed that only 0.7 percent of convicts got their firearms at a gun show.
This must be the lynchpin of the entire criminal underworld. Knock this leg out and all crime will fall.
Obviously, if this loophole were closed, our problems would be solved and no more bad things would happen.
On this day, a group will be protesting across the nation by having a "lie-in" of 32 people to memorialize the innocent killed by evil.
Personally, if this event were to stop here at this juncture, everything would be fine. This was a tragic event that should never be forgotten or minimized.
Instead, the deaths of 32 people are being used to push a broad political agenda that has nothing to do with Virginia Tech.
They call themselves ProtestEasyGuns. Sadly, very few things mentioned by this group have anything to do with Virginia Tech in any way, shape or form.
They claim to stimulate discourse, but at the same time call for tougher laws - as does their backer, the Brady Campaign.
Wouldn't this be more of a lecture than a discourse?
I encourage all of you to take my hand so you don't get lost. If I say something you can't comprehend, I'll spell it phonetically and draw pictures for you.
The first part of their agenda is to "close the gun show loophole." I think this is pretty important because it is under the section titled "What We Want" on their Web site.
Quite puzzling is the fact that few of their "wants" have anything to do with Virginia Tech.
Apparently, the private sale of firearms at gun shows is bad. This allows all bad guys ranging from MS-13s to SPECTRE to obtain their firearms.
This "loophole" is such a problem that Seung-Hui Cho went to a federally licensed dealer (not a gun show) and bought his firearms on the up and up; at a place of business.
They might also want to gloss over the fact that in 2001 (the most recent year available year) Department of Justice study showed that only 0.7 percent of convicts got their firearms at a gun show.
This must be the lynchpin of the entire criminal underworld. Knock this leg out and all crime will fall.
Obviously, if this loophole were closed, our problems would be solved and no more bad things would happen.
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posted 4/16/08 @ 6:15 PM EST
The amount of straw man arguments in this article is unbelievable.
"This 'loophole' is such a problem that Seung-Hui Cho went to a federally licensed dealer (not a gun show) and bought his firearms on the up and up; at a place of business. (Continued…)
Terry
posted 4/17/08 @ 9:57 PM EST
My favorite thing about this article is the fact that in his other articles Sean Martin tries to argue that people should be allowed to purchase and carry guns more easily. (Continued…)
Merriam-Webster
posted 4/17/08 @ 11:37 PM EST
You might want to look up the definition of sarcasm.
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