Column: "The Problem Isn't Guns or White Men"

    On Wednesday, October 7, 2015, Ann posted her new column. It is about the recent Oregon college shooting. In one paragraph she seems to misunderstand a statistic (mistaking 17 Americans per 100,000 as 17 Americans in total (the number should be 50,000~)). Anyway, here are some quotes:

"There's a rigid formula in media accounts of mass shootings: If possible, blame it on angry white men; when that won't work, blame it on guns."

"When will the public rise up and demand that the therapeutic community stop loosing these nuts on the public? After the fact, scores of psychiatrists are always lining up to testify that the defendant was legally insane, unable to control his actions. That information would be a lot more helpful before the wanton slaughter.

Product manufacturers are required by law to anticipate that some idiot might try to dry his cat in the microwave. But a person whose job it is to evaluate mental illness can't be required to ascertain whether the person sitting in his office might be unstable enough to kill?" [Emphasis original.]

"Liberals will howl about "stigmatizing" the mentally ill, but they sure don't mind stigmatizing white men or gun owners. About a third of the population consists of white men. Between a third and half of all Americans have guns in the home. If either white men or guns were the main cause of mass murder, no one would be left in the country."