Guns are treated differently from knives when either is involved in a crime,
according to an Op-Ed in the Detroit News.
An Op-Ed from the Michigan state director for Women for Gun Rights has zeroed in on the "dangerous" double standard from the political left and the media in the aftermath of the mass stabbing incident recently at a Walmart in Traverse City.
Marcy Jankovich, operator at Michigan Combat Dynamix, LLC with her son, authored the 576-word opinion piece which appeared Aug. 6 in the Detroit News. Headlined "Walmart stabbings show flaw in 'gun control' logic," the opinion piece echoed sentiments expressed by the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms in the aftermath of the stabbing spree, which was stopped when an armed private citizen intervened.
Jankovich notes the different reaction to this attack and what typically follows a mass shooting.
"The media covered the initial shock. The politicians issued generic statements," Jankovich writes. "But something's missing — something that always seems to go missing when the narrative doesn't fit: no one is talking about 'knife control.' Why is that?"
"Because deep down," she notes a few lines later, "we all know the glaring truth: it's not the object that commits the violence; it's the person."
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