Last night, Kerre Woodham, NewsTalk ZB talkshow host, was encouraging listeners to phone in to not only discuss the Virginia Tech Massacre, but how the gun culture in the US allowed the massacre to occur in the first place.
Many people obliged, joining in with their indignation that America considered ownership of guns to be sacrosanct, when obviously guns were dangerous and allowed a person to go out and kill many people more than if they had to individually club them to death.
The underlying message was really that the US needs better gun control in order to prevent massacres in the future. A political point being pushed if ever I heard one.
So, when a woman phoned in and said that with 18,000 deaths a year in NZ of unborn babies, we have no right to criticise George Bush over gun control, and then hung up so as to not get involved in any sort of argument, I thought it was a bit rich of Kerre Woodham to say the following:
Many people obliged, joining in with their indignation that America considered ownership of guns to be sacrosanct, when obviously guns were dangerous and allowed a person to go out and kill many people more than if they had to individually club them to death.
The underlying message was really that the US needs better gun control in order to prevent massacres in the future. A political point being pushed if ever I heard one.
So, when a woman phoned in and said that with 18,000 deaths a year in NZ of unborn babies, we have no right to criticise George Bush over gun control, and then hung up so as to not get involved in any sort of argument, I thought it was a bit rich of Kerre Woodham to say the following:
"I think it's a little cheap to use a highschool massacre to push a political point."I suppose it's only acceptable to make political points that people agree with when it comes to massacres, like, let's ban all guns as opposed to turning the spotlight back to ourselves and how little we really value life.