Prepare for another assault on the second amendment
Published Wed, Dec 6 2006 6:24 PM
Technorati Tags: News and Politics
The Seattle Post Intelligencer has an article on gang related violence. What's interesting isn't the increase in gang related violence, but how the article presents the notion that guns are the problem rather than violent criminals with no regard for human life.
The slaying of King County sheriff's Deputy Steve Cox is another harsh reflection of resurging gun violence and gang activity plaguing Seattle and cities around the country, law enforcement officials say.
Cox was shot and killed early Saturday as he interviewed witnesses in connection with a shooting and beating outside a party at a White Center home. The felon and gang member who apparently shot him, Raymond O. Porter, is thought to have killed another man in SeaTac Friday night.
"Gang members are more dangerous, they're more armed, than other criminals and that fact alone means we're going to run into more people and things like this," Sheriff's Sgt. John Urquhart said Monday.
"But I don't believe (Porter) killed Deputy Cox because he was a gang member. I believe he killed Deputy Cox because he was armed," Urquhart added.
Cox's death comes after a year in Seattle in which gun assaults were up by 25 percent, similar to national trends, according to law enforcement. Police say shootings are becoming much too frequent, whether gang-related or not. Even as deputies responded to the gun blasts that killed Cox in White Center, Seattle police were busy Saturday hunting for another shooter in Rainier Valley who wounded another man in an unrelated case.
"There is certainly much more willingness to use firearms and a willingness to use them on human beings," Urquhart said.
According to Sheriff's Sgt. Urquhart, the reason for gun violence is guns, not violent people. Never mind that Mr. Porter was a felon who didn't have a legal right to even possess a gun, you can bet that this will lead to a call for more gun control regulations to target those of us that possess them legally.
The article goes on to discuss the reasons for the surge in violence, and that's the last we read about guns in the article, but it's enough. The seed has been planted.
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