New weapons rules: Is it time to force people to take safety classes, then register them and do background checks... to buy a knife?

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So, this guy goes nuts and slaughters a bunch of people at a Belgian day care center, killing two babies and a care-giver, as well as wounding 12 others, including 10 other children.

This a tragedy. How can mere words adequately describe the pain this human filth has inflicted on these people, their families, their nation?

However, this isn't a post about the very real agony all concerned have undergone and will undergo. This is a post about the media reaction.

Belgian gun laws are reactionary, in that a brief google search seems to result in reports of a sweeping change in gun laws implemented as a result of a multiple murder a few weeks before. They, apparently, have nothing approximating a "Constitutional right" to carry.

Is this where I pointed out that these new, more restrictive and confiscatory laws really did nothing to protect these children?

The silence about the mode of these deaths is deafening. But we all already know that had this guy shot these kids, the howls would be deafening.

I have no idea what type of knife or knives this waste of skin used. But if one rabidly favors the restriction of firearms because of their danger to the public, their use in crimes, and the injuries they cause... then how can these same people remain silent in the face of this horrific act?

How many hundreds of thousands of people around the world are "wounded" by knives, every day? Blood is spilled in kitchens and dining facilities EVERY DAY. Some people are stabbed to death... EVERY DAY. England, for example, one of the most restrictive gun ownership societies, indicates that in 2007, something on the order of 14,000 people were victims of knife attacks in Great Britain.

And the silence by the rabid gun restricters on the knife issue is deafening.

Some might call it "hypocrisy."

(NOTE: This post is filed under the heading of "sarcasm." It is an absurdity to support yet another example of the double standard that many hold near and dear to their hearts for purely political reasons.

As a CWP holder for the past 11 years, I am well aware of the dangers of owning a firearm. I bought my weapons (2, actually) as a result of death threats resulting from my then bosses political activities.

That said, there is something to the phrase, "Guns don't kill, people kill," and this is yet another example of that. Enforcement of common sense laws is the key to success, not the politically correct restriction of our rights.)


Prosecutor: Belgian suspect linked to other murder
Monday, January 26 5:37 a.m.

By RAF CASERT Associated Press Writer
The suspect who went on a deadly stabbing spree at a Belgian day care center is also thought to have killed an elderly woman 10 days ago and had plans on him to attack two more nurseries, a prosecutor said Monday.

Christian Du Four said police now believe the man they are holding for Friday's day care massacre in Dendermonde may also have stabbed to death a 73-year-old woman who lived nearby on Jan. 16.

"There are very clear indications of links between the murders in Dendermonde and the death of the elderly woman," said Du Four.

Investigators had been unable to find a motive for woman's slaying.

Last Friday, a knife-wielding man killed two babies and a caregiver at the Fairyland day care center in Dendermonde, a town 30 kilometers (18 miles) west of Brussels. He also seriously wounded 12 others, including 10 young children, in a rampage so bloody it left rescue workers shaken

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