The spin on 'gun violence'

[n2sooners]

So Bloomberg's bus tour read an interesting list of 'victims' of gun violence.

Astonishment has turned to outrage this morning over the “gun victim list” being pandered by the “No More Names” bus tour financed by anti-gun New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, following revelations that the list also includes the name of two alleged California cop-killers and several other criminals justifiably shot by police.

Bloomberg’s 25-state, 100-day bus campaign is carefully avoiding Washington – at least so far – and neighboring Oregon. Gun rights activists here had promised a warm welcome for the bus, sponsored by Mayors Against Illegal Guns. The first stop in Concord, N.H. earlier this week erupted in shouts when, as this column noted, the name of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the Boston Marathon bombing suspect killed in a shootout with police, was read as a victim of gun violence.

Also among the names, according to Buzz Feed and The Atlantic Wire, were Christopher Dorner, the California ex-cop who allegedly murdered another police officer, and Jeremy Peter Goulet, killed in Santa Cruz after he allegedly gunned down two police detectives. Also on the list were:

• Esteban J. Smith, suspected of the stabbing death of his wife, who was killed by Elden, Tex., police after what was described as a “shooting rampage.”
• Would-be cop-killer Kurt Myers, who was shot by his intended police victims in Herkimer, N.Y. He allegedly murdered four people the day before lawmen took him down.
• Suspected mass shooter Rick Odell Smith, killed by police in Manchester, Ill. after a shooting that left six people wounded.
• Murder suspects Emmanuel Gatewood and Kourtney Hahn, who died in a gun battle with police in Columbus, Ohio.
• Another Ohio outlaw, James L. Gilkerson, killed in a Middlefield shootout with police.
• Anthony James Galla, killed by cops in Upper Darby, Pa., ending a manhunt that reportedly began with another shooting.

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It is getting a lot of attention, but the media does it all the time. Remember the deaths in Chicago on Father's Day weekend?

Gun violence flared over the Father's Day weekend in Chicago. At least seven people died and 30 others wounded in shootings across the city, authorities said.

In a city beset by gun crimes, six died in separate shootings Saturday night or early Sunday morning, including a 16-year-old boy, authorities said.

One of the weekend's victims was a man shot by police when he raised a handgun in their direction after jumping from a moving car and fleeing on foot, the Chicago Tribune reported, quoting police.

USA Today

Nine people were killed, two by police officers, over the past three days in Chicago's most violent weekend of the year, amid a rise in gang violence in the city.

Homicides in Chicago drew international attention last year as they hit their highest since 2008, but the weekend violence comes as the city's overall rate of murder is declining, according to police.

The two people shot dead by police included a 15-year-old boy carrying a high-powered handgun in the city's troubled South Side Englewood neighborhood on Sunday night and a 24-year-old man. Each was threatening police with a firearm, said a representative for the city's police union.

With the police shootings, there were nine violent deaths - eight by gunfire - between Friday afternoon and Sunday night. There were 26 shootings, police said. The police shootings are being investigated by the Independent Police Review Authority.

Reuters

And there were others lumping self defense and justifiable homicides with murders by using the terms 'victim' or 'gun violence' in order to inflate the numbers.

 

[BIG_MIKE2005]

Yea, with all the recent scandals coming out they better watch their mouths, tactics & how they go about this second assault on our 2A rights. they lost the first battle with momentum behind them. now the momentum is turning against Washington & this time around their fight should encounter even more resistance. We shall see, but one would hope people are waking up enough to see through this anti-gun BS these politicians are trying to shove down the entire country's throat.

 

[Tyson C.]

forgot to mention Bonnie and Clyde..they were gunned down for no reason......

 

[Dale00]

The root of the problem could be metal - iron, steel, lead, brass. Outlaw metal and there will be no more deaths due to firearms, knifes, vehicle accidents etc.. Paradise found

 

[okie98]

Were you expecting the truth????