From the Den of Ignoramuses Department...

Comes this priceless editorial from the New York Times (I say "priceless," because the words aren't worth the bandwidth they use).

Thirty-thousand Americans are killed by guns every year — on the job, walking to school, at the shopping mall. The Supreme Court on Thursday all but ensured that even more Americans will die senselessly with its wrongheaded and dangerous ruling striking down key parts of the District of Columbia’s gun-control law.

And just how has a gun ban made the residents of the District of Columbia any safer? If the ban on D.C. citizens from owning guns was so successful, why is Washington D.C. nearly perenially at the top of the list per capita for violent crimes? If a ban on handguns (outside of being Constitutionally prohibited) is the cat's meow and then some, why has there been a murder spree in Chicago (whose laws are even more restrictive than DC) the likes of which has rarely been seen since Al Capone's heydey in the 1920s?

Just like their fallacious sloganeering about MMGW, the liberals' fallacious sloganeering about the lack of gun control does not stand up to facts.

Why is it that areas with the highest levels of "gun control" also have the highest murder rates (can you say "Washington D.C." and "Chicago"?:

During the first four months of 2008, 134 murders were committed in Chicago. In comparison, according to icasualties.com, a total of 160 Americans were killed in all of Iraq during the same period.

Liberals, of course, in their perpetual view of criminals-as-victim, would rather have the citizens defenseless against those who would do them harm, and then appease and make apologies for the ones who use illegally-obtained guns to commit atrocities.


The Founding Fathers knew what they were doing. A pity that the editorial Board of the New York Times, as well as liberal democrat legislators, don't.