GUNS AND ZOMBIES

The anti-gun nuts are out in full force after the “rave shooting” in Seattle. After a moron shoots up some place, you can begin to count down until the editorials pop up blaming everything and everybody BUT the shooter for the crime.

Robert Jamieson of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer stepped up to the plate.

“Don't blame the rave scene for the Seattle's worst mass murder in more than two decades.

Blame the guns -- and a culture that celebrates firepower.

Blame the murdering madness on a country that has seen Columbine, Kip Kinkel and bullets at the Tacoma Mall, but lacks the common sense to clamp down on weapons of mass carnage.

Blame the gun lobby on the other Capitol Hill -- not the rave crowd on Seattle's Capitol Hill.

Gun advocates like to say guns don't literally kill, and they're right.

People do.

Problem is, people keep killing people with guns, just as Kyle Huff did over the weekend.”

See, Bobby tries to head off criticism by saying it’s not guns that kill people, people do. Of course, this comes after he blames guns, so I’m sensing some obfuscation instead of conviction.

Bobby mentions the felony charge of criminal mischief Huff faced in Montana that was dropped to a misdemeanor, allowing Huff to keep his guns and buy more.

“In Montana, he faced a felony criminal mischief charge in 2000 for blasting a statue of a moose with gunfire. He later pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor.

Had Huff shot up a statue in, say, downtown Seattle -- as opposed to in gun-friendly Montana -- he would have been dealt with more seriously, law enforcement and public-policy officials tell me. Had the felony charge stuck and led to conviction, it would have been illegal for Huff to own firearms.”

You can just feel the disdain he has for those rubes in “gun-friendly Montana”. The “holier than thou” attitude distracts from his point that Huff has a history of misuse of guns and a plea bargain kept him from becoming a felon and therefore unable to own guns. It also proves the point we Second Ammendment-ers always say, “How about ENFORCING the laws on the books instead of adding more?”

Look, the reason these people were murdered was because Kyle Huff shot them. That’s it. If there are enabling factors, like him owning guns, than I don’t think we should be so quick to dismiss the “rave scene”, like Bobby did. The rave he was at, a “zombie rave” I believe it was called, was full of high adrenalin and drugs, illegal and legal, I’m sure. It was this high-tension atmosphere that pushed this obviously unstable man to kill.

Should we ban raves? Or make it illegal to go to one if you are a felon? No. Nor should we push to take guns away.