When a Gun Saves a Life
By Michael Goodspeed

"News" media in this country are owned and operated by master manipulators. Every "story" is reported with an intended effect, and most often, the intention is to cultivate fear and confusion in the common man. For one of the best examples of this, consider media coverage of the highly emotional "gun control" issue. Remember the aftermath of Columbine? The images of blood-soaked children climbing through jagged, broken windows were broadcast ad nauseam, and the message behind the pictures was clear: "Look at what GUNS can do! Guns go bang, people get hurt! Guns are bad!" American "news" media "reported" on Columbine without any kind of factual context. Rather, they simply focused their lenses on the visceral horror, attempting to create in the public a deep loathing and terror of guns.

The facts tells us that "gun control" is not a successful tool for decreasing gun violence. Furthermore, when states have allowed law-abiding citizens to carry concealed weapons, incidences of gun violence have gone down. This was the crux of Professor John Lott's book, More Guns, Less Crime. Lott examined crime statistics in the U.S. between 1977 and 1992, and concluded that states that adopted concealed carry laws actually experienced REDUCTIONS in violent crimes. (See www.johnrlott.com)

Lott's discovery should not come as a surprise to any thinking person. When law-abiding folks obtain firearms, they remain law-abiding. The only people who benefit from gun control are CRIMINALS, who would love to see John Q. Public disarmed and impotent.

Consider a very recent, real-life example of this. On the evening of Thursday, August 25, at a Wal-Mart in Albuquerque, NM, a man attacked a woman in the deli, jumping the counter and stabbing her repeatedly. She probably would have been killed, if not for the heroic actions of a good Samaritan who just happened to be "packing heat." Here is the story from the Fox affiliate in Albuquerque:

"A violent moment inside an Albuquerque Wal-Mart, where at least one person was fatally shot, another stabbed in the back. It happened around five Thursday night at the Wal-Mart at San Mateo and Zuni Southeast. Witnesses say a man jumped the counter and stabbed a woman working at the deli multiple times. That's when witnesses say another man pulled out a gun and shot the stabber three times. We talked to one group who says they hit the floor and then crawled to the store's coolers to hide out. The SWAT team was deployed to clear the store. Police say the woman was taken to UNM with multiple stab wounds; they say her injuries are not life-threatening. A relative of the victim's coworker says the woman had just taken out a temporary restraining order on the man." (Source: http://www.kasa.com/Global/story.asp?S=3768702&nav=29KHdmGy)

This story is ironic on multiple levels. First, the "bad guy" is a knife-wielding maniac who receives his comeuppance from a gun-toting "good guy". Second, the female victim had taken out a restraining order on her male attacker -- and just as 2nd amendment proponents have long insisted, such legal measures generally do protect anyone from violence. Third, if anti-gun fanatics like Rosie O' Donnell and Chuck Schumer had their way, all law-abiding citizens would be disarmed, and the victim in this case would almost certainly be dead.

The same "news" media that reveled in the bloodshed at Columbine will surely bury this story which so badly discredits their backwards and perverse anti-gun agenda.