That’s the front page headline of today’s Redeye, a free rag distributed by the Chicago Tribune. The two-page spread begins on page six with the following paragraphs (full story here:
At the age of 15, Monica Sanders answered her phone to learn that her friend had been fatally shot in the stomach by another female teen, leaving behind a 4-month old daughter.
“It still shocks me to this day,” said Sanders, now 18. “It’s insane that a teenager could get a gun.”
The senseless act of violence prompted Sanders to join Hands Without Guns, a violence-prevention group that joined a crowd of local voices Monday on the eve of arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court about whether to strike down Chicago’s longstanding hand-gun ban.
The article has a significant anti-gun bent. There are more paragraphs extolling the virtues of banning guns than paragraphs arguing against such a ban. The opening story quoted above is classic propaganda — we don’t know how the gun was obtained. It could have been brought in from out of state for all we know. The thought of a motherless child pulls at our heart strings and emotionally charges our opinion of the debate, well before the facts are laid out and debated (if you can even call the article a debate of the issues).
As I’ve said before; “gun control” is nothing more than a restriction on law-abiding citizens. Those who would use a firearm to break the law, demonstrate by that very fact that laws against gun use do not pertain to them. Therefore, by aggressively controlling gun ownership, you primarily affect law-abiding citizens, not criminals.
Gun control advocates don’t want you to hear that. They’d rather you hear a story about some poor teen mother who got gunned down by another teen and blame it on guns rather than blame it on the shooter.
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