{"id":819,"date":"2013-04-15T21:11:07","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T01:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/attheintersectionoffaithandculture\/?p=819"},"modified":"2013-04-15T21:11:07","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T01:11:07","slug":"the-bane-stream-media-second-amendment-denial-and-knife-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/attheintersectionoffaithandculture\/2013\/04\/the-bane-stream-media-second-amendment-denial-and-knife-control.html","title":{"rendered":"The Bane-stream Media, Second Amendment Denial, and Knife-Control"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Tuesday, April 9th<\/sup>, a man with a knife went on a rampage at Lone Star College near Houston, Texas.<\/p>\n

Fourteen people were stabbed.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, April 10th<\/sup>, USA Today <\/em>covered the attack, reassuring readers that knife attacks like these \u201care rare.\u201d<\/p>\n

Is it a stretch to think that USA Today, <\/em>along with the left-leaning bane-stream media that it represents, has an interest invested in marginalizing this episode?<\/p>\n

The question, clearly, is rhetorical.\u00a0 The bane-stream media, as everyone well knows, consists overwhelmingly of liberal partisans who have repeatedly revealed their commitment to advancing the Democratic Party\u2019s agenda generally and so-called \u201cgun control\u201d specifically. These media partisans are well aware of the fact that stories like that coming out of Texas threaten to expose weaknesses in the narrative that they\u2019ve co-authored with their fellow ideologues in Washington D.C.<\/p>\n

According to this narrative, gun shootings of the kind that occurred in Newtown, Connecticut back in December are all too common in our gun-obsessed culture.\u00a0 Thus, at all costs, \u201cwe\u201d must do what \u201cwe\u201d can to insure that Newtown isn\u2019t repeated.\u00a0 Translation: politicians must impose ever more stringent restrictions upon the Second Amendment.<\/p>\n

Second translation: the federal government must assume even more power to wield over the citizenry (if that\u2019s possible to imagine) as it gradually, through toddler steps, repeals Americans\u2019 right to bear arms.<\/p>\n

This is the truth of the matter.\u00a0 Yet the Second Amendment deniers are not interested in truth, for if they were, they wouldn\u2019t be so intent upon concealing their inconsistencies.<\/p>\n

For example, while it is indeed the case that mass knife attacks are rare, it is equally true that mass gun shootings are rare\u2014a point that Second Amendment defenders have been making ad infinitum.\u00a0 The implications are obvious to all who would make the most meager of mental efforts.<\/p>\n

The Second Amendment denier argues that anti-knife legislation to prevent mass knife attacks is unnecessary because such attacks are rare.\u00a0 But if this is so, then it follows that neither is anymore anti-gun legislation necessary, for mass gun attacks are no less rare than mass knife attacks.<\/p>\n

If, as he is sure to do, the Second Amendment Denier maintains course, then consistency requires his support for \u201cknife control.\u201d<\/p>\n

Both knives and guns are potentially dangerous.\u00a0 Both are used by the wicked and the deranged in mass attacks, however rare these may be.\u00a0 If it is true that guns kill, it is no less true that knives (to say nothing of all sorts of other things) kill as well.<\/p>\n

So, why are the Second Amendment deniers not calling for knife-control?\u00a0 Why is this mass knife attack one<\/em> crisis that they will<\/em> let <\/em>go to waste?<\/p>\n

Considering that the leftist has always styled himself its champion extraordinaire, it may come as a shock to hear that part of the answer to this question lies in the Second Amendment denier\u2019s resentment toward equality.\u00a0 <\/em>At any rate, there is a certain kind of equality that the Second Amendment encourages\u2014but which he despises.<\/p>\n

In all of world history there is no weapon ever conceived that has done more to put the most powerful and the weakest on an equal footing.\u00a0 The gun is the great equalizer.\u00a0 With a pistol in her hand, and without breaking a sweat, a frail, 90 year-old woman can send with lightning speed the strongest, most merciless young punk to the morgue.<\/p>\n

Where there is this kind of equality in one\u2019s ability to defend oneself, there is an equality of power.\u00a0 But when power is equally distributed, then no one is utterly dependent upon anyone else.\u00a0 Do you see where this is going?\u00a0 As the First Amendment prevents government\u2014the biggest bully on the block\u2014from attaining a monopoly on speech, so does the Second Amendment prevent it from attaining a monopoly on self-defensive force.<\/p>\n

To put it succinctly, because guns supply everyone, the weak no less than the strong, with easy means to defend themselves, an armed citizenry remains the largest obstacle to the formation of a tyrannical government.<\/p>\n

This <\/em>is why there won\u2019t be any calls for knife-control.<\/p>\n

And it is this <\/em>that explains why calls for \u201cgun-control\u201d will continue.<\/p>\n

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