A pilot’s gun discharged aboard a passenger plane last weekend. As the Washington Post reports:
Even though gun control is not quite as hot an issue as it was during the heyday of school shootings and the Million Mom March, I’m kind of shocked this story didn’t make the front-page. Which isn’t to say the coverage has all been fair. We can thank ABC for the incendiary headline, “Trigger-Happy Pilot?” What great journalism! Imply the pilot was a trigger-happy lunatic firing shots at random into the air, then inform the reader he was in fact just doing his job. Here’s a better question: how long before the Democrats propose eliminating the program? After all, the risk of harmless, accidental discharges–one in six-and-a-half years–can’t possibly outweigh the possible benefits of averting a single terrorist attack.
