Disgruntled Reporter Control?
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Another maniac, and not the gun, commits senseless violence
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Today a gunman killed a reporter and photographer during a live television broadcast at a shopping center in Moneta, Virginia.
The suspect, a disgruntled former employee of the station, shot himself hours later, and is in “very critical condition” as of this writing.
The gunman has been described by a station manager as someone who was angry and unstable during his employment at the station, which fits well with his actions.
Bryce Williams joins the pantheon of murderous monsters that includes James Holmes and Charles Manson
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As the barbarity was committed with a gun, the inevitable calls for heightened gun control will bellow out of the usual precincts.
But whether Mr. Williams shot his victims with a gun or bludgeoned them to death with an egg-beater, this was someone who was going to do harm no matter what means he had at his disposal.
It should also be noted that today, while Mr. Williams committed this atrocity, tens if not hundreds of thousands of people appropriately fired a gun while hunting, on a gun range or on some other acceptable venue.
Thus, today’s event was not an indictment of guns but yet another reminder that there is evil and mental illness out there that must be dealt with as best possible, realizing that some tragedies are unavoidable.
-I.M. Windee
