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Gun crime rises, howls CNN!

Bleeding and leading, as usual.

In a development that surprised exactly no one, the article contained unsubstantiated tripe demonizing inanimate objects and the NRA:

Professor Alfred Blumstein of Carnegie Mellon University said the rise in gun violence was particularly troubling.

"A major police effort to confiscate guns helped bring down the surge in violent crime that occurred in the late 1980s and early 1990s," Blumstein said. "But gun distribution is easier now because we have begun to back off gun control." (My emphasis.)

Backed by the National Rifle Association, the Bush administration has been cool toward gun control measures.

Um, exactly which element of legislation has made gun distribution easier?

Not one, Prof. Blumstein, you lying jerk. In the past few years, the so-called "Assault Weapons" Ban was allowed to die, and several states have passed concealed-carry and "Castle Doctrine" legislation -- but none of that legislation has anything to do with easing "distribution". To the contrary -- guns are just as difficult to acquire, and no easier to "distribute" than before.

That's the kind of bullshit that makes my blood boil. CNN knows they'll get mileage out of a "gun" story, and they have no interest in or motivation to validate statements like that before they parrot them in an article.

Here's more -- a quote from Dean Esserman, Providence Rhode Island Police Chief:

"I believe in homeland defense, but I also believe in crime fighting," Esserman said. "I don't want one neglected for the other. Every year we're losing 16,000 people to murder, mostly young people and mostly killed by guns, and that's more than three times the number that died at the World Trade Center" in the attacks of September 11, 2001.

Oooohhhh -- way to throw that 9/11 reference in there for effect, boss. Very timely. What a sweaty, stinking turd that quote is. Never mind troublesome details like how many of those horrid guns were obtained illegally, or how many of the shooters were felons who shouldn't have had the guns in the first place, or who may have been repeat offenders, or if they'd been released from prison early, or if they might have murdered somebody in a drug deal, or if the crimes took place in cities with already Draconian (and worthless) gun-control measures. Let's just focus on the inanimate objects instead.

Is there an IQ ceiling in the requirements to apply for the position of Big City Police Chief or something?

Oh, I dread this. Mark my words: Socialists ... er, Democrats will win the Congress in the upcoming elections.

A stunning resurgence in gun control legislation won't be far behind.