Desecration

This week, the Facebook page "GunOwner's4Liberty" has been using this year-old Salt Lake City news story for propaganda purposes:

SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) - A citizen with a gun stopped a knife wielding man as he began stabbing people Thursday evening at the downtown Salt Lake City Smith's store.

Police say the suspect purchased a knife inside the store and then turned it into a weapon. Smith's employee Dorothy Espinoza says, "He pulled it out and stood outside the Smiths in the foyer. And just started stabbing people and yelling you killed my people. You killed my people."

...Then, before the suspect could find another victim - a citizen with a gun stopped the madness. "A guy pulled gun on him and told him to drop his weapon or he would shoot him. So, he dropped his weapon and the people from Smith's grabbed him."

I can't believe the gun nuts have such short memories, and are using this event as propaganda. Remember, this supermarket is right around the corner from Trolley Square, where six died and four were injured in a mass gun slaughter in 2007:

A man with a shotgun ran into Trolley Square and fired multiple shots, killing five people and hitting multiple other victims before he was killed Monday night, police said.

...An off-duty Ogden police officer was in the mall at the time and fired his weapon at the shooter, killing him, according to Barrett Dodds, an antique-shop owner who witnessed the event.

I think folks have completely-forgotten about the victims of Trolley Square. The gun nuts shouldn't touch anything from that neighborhood for propaganda. It speaks of desecration to do so. Every single thing that is wrong about the easy possession of guns was revealed there.