Now the "monday morning quarterbacks" are criticizing the FBI's investigation of the Yosemite murders. Charging that the feds allowed Cary Stayner, the confessed murderer of 4 women (that we know of), to slip through their fingers earlier in the probe, thus allowing Stayner to brutally murder his most recent victim, Joie Armstrong.
Stayner was questioned and released following the much publicized disappearance and subsequent discovery of Carole Sund, her daughter Juli and a friend, Silvina Pelosso who were murdered while vacationing in the area earlier this year.
Whether the FBI deserves this rap or not is really a secondary consideration. I'm not in a position to determine if their investigation was inept.
The curious thing here (NOT) is that NO ONE has publicly made the obvious observation that this gruesome series of murders may have been stopped if only one of the victims had been armed.
I have heard this opinion expressed by a number of people. Many of them weren't even folks I would have expected to hear that from.
An opportunity to point out the fallacy of putting your safety and self preservation in the hands of others comes along and out of a sense of decency and respect for the families of the victims, nothing is said.
I sometimes think that it's a pity that the restraint practiced by the pro-gun community prevents us from using a tragedy like this to present our side of the argument, while the anti's will swarm like flies to any corpse that helps them sell their ideas.
Stayner was questioned and released following the much publicized disappearance and subsequent discovery of Carole Sund, her daughter Juli and a friend, Silvina Pelosso who were murdered while vacationing in the area earlier this year.
Whether the FBI deserves this rap or not is really a secondary consideration. I'm not in a position to determine if their investigation was inept.
The curious thing here (NOT) is that NO ONE has publicly made the obvious observation that this gruesome series of murders may have been stopped if only one of the victims had been armed.
I have heard this opinion expressed by a number of people. Many of them weren't even folks I would have expected to hear that from.
An opportunity to point out the fallacy of putting your safety and self preservation in the hands of others comes along and out of a sense of decency and respect for the families of the victims, nothing is said.
I sometimes think that it's a pity that the restraint practiced by the pro-gun community prevents us from using a tragedy like this to present our side of the argument, while the anti's will swarm like flies to any corpse that helps them sell their ideas.
