Not by guns.

Hands.

Two NYC citizens were purposely and violently pushed into the path of two NY subway trains in less than a month.  These are abominational events that no one seems to be addressing.  Or proscribing.

Mayor Bloomberg’s lackluster response to this?

“It’s a very tragic case, but what we want to focus on today is the overall safety in New York,” Bloomberg told reporters.

Had there been two purposeful murders in the New York subway system where firearms were utilized, do you suspect Mr Bloomberg would be quite so accommodating?

I don’t.

I submit: perhaps it’s past due time to evaluate the psychological health of those persons loose on the streets of New York.  They, unlike firearms, are completely UNregulated and UNmonitored by NY governmental and mental health authorities.

They roam at will.

They mumble and wander at will.

And they — clearly — utilize their hands to push at will.

Further, in the second event, the female was seen on cameras to be purposefully fleeing the scene which clearly indicates an awareness and consciousness of guilt.

Hands.  Guns.  Rocks.  Baseball bats.  A heavy vase.  A garrote.  A rope.  A Damascus steel knife.  A pair of panty hose.  A car.  Heroin.  A steel pipe.  A bowling ball.  A halberd shaft.  A machete.  A scalpel.  A claw hammer.  A locomotive.  A crossbow.  Semtex.  PETN.  C4 and C5.  Leaking dynamite.  Detcord.  An M18 Claymore.   A steel-toed boot.  Positional asphyxia.  Vomit.  Hardening of the arteries.

These are all things that can kill you.  And kill you dead.

These items — and firearms — are no more than tools.  Tools that various persons use in order to kill other human beings.  The most deadly American school killing in history, everyone has forgotten, occurred in 1927, when dynamite was used to destroy a school in Bath, Michigan — where 45 people were killed, of whom 38 were children.

In New York City — what no honest American media will tell you — the murder rate is at a 50-year low.  Firearms included.  I had to find this on UK media.

Recently, in China, two mass school incidents occurred involving violence.  And China, of course, with a history of a firearms-free populace.  Overall, school attacks in China are documented here.  And they are UP.

Tools or mien?

I’ll leave you to decide which.

BZ

Go here.

Pretty simple.  It’s the Perfect Storm of Leftist opportunity.

“You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.”  -Rahm Emanuel

BZ

P.S.
You want some actual facts involving firearms — facts that can buttress your arguments based on statistics and logic?  Go here.

As the result of the recent Newtown, Connecticut shootings, the White-Plains, New York newspaper The Journal News (at lohud.com) published the article “The gun owner next door: What you don’t know about the weapons in your neighborhood.”

The point of the article was this:

“I would love to know if someone next to me had guns. It makes me safer to know so I can deal with that,” said Thompson, whose group counsels youths against gun violence. “I might not choose to live there.”

That is: according to the author, Dwight Worley, people need to know who has a gun in their home so that potential neighbors can decide to avoid that person and/or area.  The further intimation being: because you can never quite tell when that heinous gun owner will uncork and shoot up the community.

Using the Freedom of Information Act, the article also included an interactive graphic that displays the specific name, address and telephone number of those persons holding firearms permits in Rockland and Westchester counties in New York state.  See: “Map: Where are the gun permits in your neighborhood?”

Weasel Zippers weighed in here on the matter originally.

But wait; there’s more.  Weasel Zippers then thought it would be appropriate to reveal the address and phone number of the article’s author, Worley, along with those of the newspaper’s president and editors.  That article is here.

A bit of tit-for-tat, so to speak.

Because I’m certain those journalists would want their personal information displayed on the internet for all to see as much as lawful gun owners would.

The 1389Blog weighs in here.

As does The Politico, whose bias is indicated by its title: “Right up in arms over paper’s gun map.”

Anyone besides me believe this is 1) reprehensible, but 2) only fair that the publishers have their personal information revealed as well?

BZ