Lies and Drivel

Those are the only two words I can think of to describe this OpEd from John Rosenthal of the ASHA in the Boston Herald

With the historic election of Barack Obama, the nation finally has an opportunity to enact sensible national gun policy. Obama should look to big cities, especially Boston, for guidance.

And it doesn’t get any more sensible or honest from there.

And with the terrorists attacks Mumbai, it makes his point even more insipid.

One of Glenn Reynolds’ readers had the temerity to suggest that a couple/few civilians with firearms would not have made any difference in the outcome.

Apparently he doesn’t know that the terrorists were committing their sick acts in groups of two to four, with unaimed fire from AK’s. Anyone with thirty seconds of warning and an ounce of practical firearms training who could spot and use hard cover to their advantage could have at least slowed the terrorists down enough to let more civilians escape the slaughter.

And if that person had just half the ability to control their emotions that this Marine showed, they could have stopped the bastards at that location.

I mean what person with any decent amount of practice wouldn’t be able to make this shot?

Left first, then right.

Note: That is why you practice your weakside barricade shots.

Even a media professional was able to figure it out

Sebastian D’Souza, a picture editor at the Mumbai Mirror, whose offices are just opposite the city’s Chhatrapati Shivaji station, heard the gunfire erupt and ran towards the terminus. “I ran into the first carriage of one of the trains on the platform to try and get a shot but couldn’t get a good angle, so I moved to the second carriage and waited for the gunmen to walk by,” he said. “They were shooting from waist height and fired at anything that moved. I briefly had time to take a couple of frames using a telephoto lens. I think they saw me taking photographs but theydidn’t seem to care.”

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The militants returned inside the station and headed towards a rear exit towards Chowpatty Beach. Mr D’Souza added: “I told some policemen the gunmen had moved towards the rear of the station but they refused to follow them. What is the point if having policemen with guns if they refuse to use them? I only wish I had a gun rather than a camera.”

Which is probably the reason I can’t stop wondering why Mr. Rosenthal keeps asking for more gun control and not for terrorist control.

Both ideas are about equal in idiocy, except that the latter idea isn’t trying to lend a personality and motive to an inanimate object.