A Gun Control Advocate's Murderous Gun Rampage
by Will
Liberty Minute December 16 2013
The 18-year-old student who allegedly committed the recent shooting at Colorado?s Arapahoe High School was described by friends as a bright, articulate, and highly opinionated young man. Politically active and deeply involved in the speech and debate team, Karl Pierson was an outspoken critic of political conservatives, proponents of free market economics, and gun rights activists.
Pierson, who described himself as a ?very opinionated socialist,? was a passionate supporter of Barack Obama. He also believed that the government should impose restrictions on private gun ownership in order to keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people ? a proposition he seemed perversely determined to support with his own criminal behavior.
Despite all of this, a few collectivist commentators wielding ideological shoehorns did their best to cram this episode into an indictment of the so-called Radical Right. The online journal Salon, for example, cited this rampage as an example of the deadly consequences of what it called ?Tea Party fantasies? about gun rights. However, most of the media outlets that covered this incident refrained from discussing the ideology of the alleged perpetrator, displaying the kind of restraint that would have eluded them if he had been a conservative or a libertarian, rather than a self-described socialist.
Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.