donathos -
You are exactly right. If you google news stories about people using guns for good purposes -
- Hunting for food and donating it to local food banks, or using it to thin out over-populated species as opposed to factory farming
- Scaring off attackers, rapists and others WITHOUT resorting to violence (these often go unreported)
- Defending homes from burglaries, home invasions and murders
- Defending stores and businesses from robbers and madmen
And so on, you find MANY stories about this kind of activity, but there is never in-depth reporting going on. Just quick blurbs in the media. But when there is a random homicide....The media reports on it for hours on-end. Why?
It doesn't help the perception of gun owners when they do this. For example, you have concealed carry laws in states like Florida and Ohio. You can legally carry a sidearm everywhere that is not federally-owned property. Yet despite these laws, you don't hear anything about major waves of crime, or psycopaths with these permits....Despite the fact there are litterally hundreds of thousands of Ohioans with the permits, there are few if any negative incidents with this kind of law.
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
