Statistics from the National Federation of State High School Associations reveal that, in 1999, 15 students perished while playing in high school football games. This fact received little to no coverage in the national media. Angry parents did not parade into Washington, D.C., in order to demand stricter regulation of high school football. Politicos feigning intense anguish did not bemoan footballs domination of most learning institutions sports programs. The large majority of this countrys citizens watched their favorite high school football teams oblivious to the blood that soaked the pigskin and dripped onto Americas playing fields.
Conversely, when 15 students died from gunshot wounds during the 1998-1999 school year, as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicate, the national media evangelized endlessly about the evils of guns. Apparently forgetting that many of the kid killers, such as Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, had obtained their weapons illegally, hordes of crusaders seethed that if guns werent legal and available, the school murders wouldnt have happened. A few local governments, hoping to score political points, filed lawsuits against gun...