Posted by
Always To The Right on Monday, July 06, 2009 10:46:04 AM
Steve McNair apparently died not at the hands of his mistress in a murder-suicide but at the hands of the “gun culture” of America. So decides sports writer Mike Lupica
in the New York Daily News, who must have leapt to his typewriter
within minutes of the wire services announcing McNair’s death in order
to indict millions of Americans who don’t kill people but manage to own
firearms responsibly. In doing so, he martyrs a man who clearly had
other issues than the national “gun culture”
For the record, the murder of a boyfriend, as this appears to be, is slightly more likely to happen by knife instead of gun.
Statistics from the DoJ on murders of intimates from 1990-2005 show
that 47% of murdered boyfriends get stabbed to death, while 45% of them
get killed by guns. Would Lupica attribute that to a “knife culture”?
Would the plurality of knife murders be “progress” for Lupica?
Had Lupica paused long enough to do some actual research, he would
have found that murders of intimates have dropped over the last 30
years, and that the use of guns as the weapons had declined even faster
than the overall drop:
But why let facts get in the way of accusing every gun owner in America of McNair’s murder?