Aurora & Fort Hood: A Tale of Two Massacres

by Bruce Thornton
Frontpage Magazine
July 24, 2012

https://www.legal-project.org/2827/aurora-fort-hood-a-tale-of-two-massacres

Excerpt:

The murder victims of James Holmes, who slaughtered 12 and wounded 50 at the Dark Knight Rises movie premier in Aurora Colorado, were still sprawled in the theater when ABC News chief investigator Brian Ross on-air tried to link the killer to the Tea Party––without even a modicum of vetting the information, as ABC's apology later admitted. A quick fact-check would have revealed that the Colorado Tea Party James Holmes is a 52-year-old Hispanic, not a 24-year-old white PhD candidate. Indulging another left-wing narrative cliché, CNN's Piers Morgan tweeted, "America has got to do something about its gun laws. Now is the time." New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg chimed in as well with the "gun-control" meme, seemingly oblivious to the lack of evidence that shows strict gun control laws reduce murder-rates. Over at the Huffington Post, Michael Shank fingered America's "highest income inequality rates in the rich world," which correlate "strongly with high rates of social-health problems, from homicide and violent crime to mental illness and drug addiction." This is a variation of the "poverty-made-'em-do-it" argument that the current recession, which has seen rates of violent crime go down, not up, refutes.

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