'Gun Violence' about the people, not the weapon they use

Dave Workman over at Ammoland has an excellent article explaining that the the real problem with 'gun violence' is media bias. Note that it is the term itself. Is someone who is stabbed any less injured that someone who is shot? Is someone who is beaten to death any less dead that someone who is shot to death? Spoiler alert, the answer to either question is no.

As noted recently at Liberty Park Press, “’Gun violence’ is a term created by the gun prohibition lobby (often incorrectly identified by the establishment media as ‘gun safety’ or ‘gun reform’ groups). The term, say Second Amendment activists, demonizes guns while essentially relegating other types of violence involving other weapons as somehow less significant.”

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In Everett, Wash., recently, a man and woman were stabbed. The man died and the woman was “fighting for her life.” When KOMO News in Seattle reported the story, the station said the “stabbing suspect” had attacked the pair. The knife wasn’t a suspect; the alleged perpetrator was.

Notice the difference? The knife did not stab two people. A flesh and blood human attacked these people. And if they didn't want to get rid of guns, they would frame the issue the same way. A person attacked and shot someone. The violence is not that of the particular tool, but of the person wielding the tool. 

So, when The Sentinel in Aurora, Colo., headlines an editorial with “Boulder, Like Aurora, Illustrates that Gun Violence is About the Guns, Not the Places,” it overlooks the obvious—violence is about the people responsible, not the weapons they use...